{"id":861,"date":"2009-08-15T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/08\/15\/on-prices\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T02:52:39","slug":"on-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/on-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"On Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday, and it’s a significant round-numbered one.  I bought her a piece of jewelry.  I think it’s the first since a diamond ring 17 years ago.  So I’m not really an expert in the field.  But I was just stunned at how the pricing works on these things.  First you have the retail price.  Then there was a 60% off sale.  According to my wife who’s been tracking this thing, this store (Kohl’s) almost always<\/em> has a sale going on.  And then we get in the mail a coupon for an extra 30% off on all purchases this week.  So I paid 28% of retail price.  And the clerk didn’t flinch, and it seemed like this was just any old day. I don’t know if this is just the way it is in jewelry, and you should never pay more than 30% of full price.  Or if it’s just this store that so inflates the retail price that it appears that you ‘re getting a real steal.  But it seems a bit disconcerting to me when prices don’t have any relation to reality.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I should set the retail price on my CDs to $742.  Then I can offer this discount and that discount and maybe you ‘d feel a whole lot better when the total cost was just a fraction of that.<\/p>\n

Speaking of CDs, I’m beginning to release a new set of 8 on Monday.  (That’s the one I mentioned<\/a> as having “5 days left to finish a project I’ve been working on for 5 years.”)  If you go to this little link (.<\/a>), you can be the first to get it.  No autographed copies are available, unfortunately.  More details in Monday’s BiblePlaces Newsletter (subscribe here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday, and it’s a significant round-numbered one.  I bought her a piece of jewelry.  I think it’s the first since a diamond ring 17 years ago.  So I’m not really an expert in the field.  But I was just stunned at how the pricing works on these things.  First you have\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}