{"id":544,"date":"2004-02-09T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T08:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=544"},"modified":"2004-02-09T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T08:23:59","slug":"garage-sale-survivor-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/garage-sale-survivor-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage sale survivor stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff of Side Salad <a href=\"http:\/\/sidesalad.net\/archives\/001443.html\">had a garage sale <\/a>over the weekend.  His take on loss-leader marketing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She came flying up in her compact car, got out and, with laser directness, went right for this frame with four $1 bills in it. I got this once as a present. I hated it, quite frankly, and never put it up on my wall. I wasn&#8217;t sure what the gift-giver was trying to signify, since I wasn&#8217;t going into business and I wasn&#8217;t exactly a collector of low denominations in sequential order. So I sold it. For $3. She actually made money buying it!  The woman who picked it up thought I was nuts, but that&#8217;s how bad I wanted to sell stuff that day. Plus, it encouraged her to buy other stuff that was worth more money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff of Side Salad had a garage sale over the weekend. His take on loss-leader marketing: She came flying up in her compact car, got out and, with laser directness, went right for this frame with four $1 bills in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/garage-sale-survivor-stories\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}