Friday, December 17, 2004

Disturbing: I'm doing a lot of my Christmas shopping online (yes, on company time). My 8-year-old niece wants this Hair Beader, which evidently puts beads in your hair (Bo Derek style). Anyhow, I first tried Amazon.com, and they were sold out. So I did a search for other toy stores to see if they had any. But just about every toy store that advertises it tells me to go to Amazon.com to buy it. I was unaware, but did Amazon.com buy up every freakin' store already? Or are all small stores just giving up and voluntarily pointing you to the Amazon.com behemoth?

Well, I finally found it on eBay -- for more than twice as much as it would cost on Amazon.com were it not sold out. 'Tis the season ...