Fate Favors the Patient
Remember this post from Thursday? Well, I didn't do the buying on Thursday, and I'm glad I didn't. Today when I was checking at work, I was delighted to find that the price for Sports Night and the price for Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice appear to have both been reduced, so I made the purchase today. That's right, folks: my projected purchase of $205.91 wound up being $199.91.
So, unless I transcribed and added the numbers incorrectly in the first place, a three day wait saved me six dollars off the Thursday price and a total of $54.06 off the suggested retail price. (That is, unless I screwed up the math at some point, but I don't think that's the case.)
It's good to be Fly.
UPDATE: I could get the two DVD sets from Borders in College City; I could have had them Thursday, actually, and unless the girl who helped me bought the Sports Night box set as she was joking she was going to do, they're both still there. Like I said, I bought the cheapest of the three items I was looking at, entirely because I received such great service; it was worth the extra ten dollars I paid; however, the twenty-three I saved by going to Amazon, instead of impulse buying, was worth the wait.
At any rate, the catch, the flipside, the irony, whatever, is that I'm goig to have to wait until the end of the month to get this stuff. It could come as quickly as my last orders from Amazon (reference here, here, here) but in spite of the fact that three of the four items "usually ship within 24 hours", the first package isn't expected to ship until 19th October (with an estimated arrival date of 27th October) and the second package isn't expected to ship until 24th October with an estimated arrival date of 1st November. Even so, saving more than fifty bucks on them was worth it, though perhaps I could have channeled some of that savings into the paid shipping. Then again, half the point of ordering it all at once is getting the Super Saver free shipping!
As I said in the title: fortune favors the patient. Good grief, does this mean that I'm turning into a penny-pinching connoisseur of frugality?
So, unless I transcribed and added the numbers incorrectly in the first place, a three day wait saved me six dollars off the Thursday price and a total of $54.06 off the suggested retail price. (That is, unless I screwed up the math at some point, but I don't think that's the case.)
It's good to be Fly.
UPDATE: I could get the two DVD sets from Borders in College City; I could have had them Thursday, actually, and unless the girl who helped me bought the Sports Night box set as she was joking she was going to do, they're both still there. Like I said, I bought the cheapest of the three items I was looking at, entirely because I received such great service; it was worth the extra ten dollars I paid; however, the twenty-three I saved by going to Amazon, instead of impulse buying, was worth the wait.
At any rate, the catch, the flipside, the irony, whatever, is that I'm goig to have to wait until the end of the month to get this stuff. It could come as quickly as my last orders from Amazon (reference here, here, here) but in spite of the fact that three of the four items "usually ship within 24 hours", the first package isn't expected to ship until 19th October (with an estimated arrival date of 27th October) and the second package isn't expected to ship until 24th October with an estimated arrival date of 1st November. Even so, saving more than fifty bucks on them was worth it, though perhaps I could have channeled some of that savings into the paid shipping. Then again, half the point of ordering it all at once is getting the Super Saver free shipping!
As I said in the title: fortune favors the patient. Good grief, does this mean that I'm turning into a penny-pinching connoisseur of frugality?
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