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12/20/2005 08:58:49 AM · #1 |
I was in Walmart the otehr day in teh sporting goods department christmas shopping for my brohter in law when i saw a lens pen - it was in a camo package so perhaps i was not supposed to see it. It was packaged for cleaning rifle scopes and priced at $4.97. I know it was a lens pen cause i bought one last week at a photo store for $10. The exact same thing, same size and all!
Thought you'd want to know!
please send $1 of your savings to me in gratitude. I promise to post pics with mynew lens - IF y'all send enough $1s. ;)
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12/20/2005 09:30:56 AM · #2 |
| Great info. I found the best prices on the web for them at hunting/birdwatching sites so makes sense that walmart would have one in sporting goods. |
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12/20/2005 10:13:06 AM · #3 |
This illustrates how thinking individuals purchase items that have multiple uses. For example, the same rain suit can keep one dry on the golf course, while fishing, while photographing in damp enviornment, while backpacking, while riding motorcycles in inclement weather and even while snowboarding/cross country skiing. Good (Gor-tex) lined boots can accomodate a multitude of applications as well.
One being prepared for fire, floods and tornado's, is also prepared for a number of "other" catastrophes, even including some WMD's.
So, the item you think you need to buy for that next activity of yours, may already be at hand, if one simply assesses the "purpose" required rather than the "label" afixed to it. |
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12/20/2005 10:31:22 AM · #4 |
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12/20/2005 12:34:17 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I was in Walmart ... It was packaged for cleaning rifle scopes and priced at $4.97. I know it was a lens pen cause i bought one last week at a photo store for $10. The exact same thing, same size and all! |
I rather pay the $10 than give Walmart a cent. See the excellent documentary Wal-Mart : The High Cost of Low Price for more info. |
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12/20/2005 12:36:28 PM · #6 |
Not that again! Walmart will implode just as Kmart, Sears, Montgomery ward, woolworths, and a&p have over the years. (A&P was the 5th largest corp in the world 40 years ago and is now all gone).
When super walmart opened here i got a raise - becuse i figure i am saving 2 grand a year shopping there.
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12/20/2005 12:38:25 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
When super walmart opened here i got a raise - becuse i figure i am saving 2 grand a year shopping there. |
But at who's expense? |
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12/20/2005 12:40:36 PM · #8 |
Same price as non-sale Ritz Camera. Amazon has them for $6.50.
EDIT: $5.50 through buy.com although shipping will kill you.
Message edited by author 2005-12-20 12:44:37. |
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12/20/2005 12:41:26 PM · #9 |
thanks Prof
I'll check it out. People who get on thier high horse about walmart often don't live in the small rural towns where 1 people couldnt afford to pay the small town shop prices so the stores went out of business long before walmart came in 2 other chains won't town the town with a 10foot pole and 3 wlmart is the best paying and most desired job in town because the others pay a whole lot less, for a whole lot nastier work.
I thank the heavens my county has a walmart daily. |
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12/24/2005 02:57:12 PM · #10 |
| If you go be sure and get the NIKON pen. They have a cheaper version that looks to be the exact same thing but only 4.97. I just got one and all it does is SMEAR! No cleaning action to it all. Now I'm gonna have to go get a real one just to clean the mess made by the cheap one! I should know better! |
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12/24/2005 03:26:28 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Flash:
This illustrates how thinking individuals purchase items .... |
Thinking individuals shop at Walmart?
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12/24/2005 03:34:47 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by hyperfocal:
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
When super walmart opened here i got a raise - becuse i figure i am saving 2 grand a year shopping there. |
But at who's expense? |
Who cares? ONe local grocery chain pays $5.15 an hour and teh employees have to pay union dues out of that! Sub-minumim wage, and their prices are higher by 15-20% on most everything. Walmart pays $6.50 or more and surely pays more taxes (property, sales and payroll) and i know they donate more locally to non-profit and fundraising efforts.
I'd love to be able to 'save teh world' and i do my part (no SUV in my driveway, no foreign cars either).
Do you shop at b&h? Amazon? Is that not hurting the local photo or bookstore? Whose gasoline do you buy? BP (a foregn company) or from an american oil company, or do you even care?
Capitalism is what made America the world's largest economy. may teh best business win.
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12/24/2005 04:34:58 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
... and surely pays more taxes (property, sales and payroll) and ... |
Walmart doesn't pay any sales tax. Buyers pay sales tax. Retailers actually make a profit on the "breakage" (or round-offs) when they collect sales taxes for the state.
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12/24/2005 05:07:08 PM · #14 |
I also heard a story that Walmart actually helps local small businesses by NOT forcing them to pay "slotting" charges, meaning paying for shelf space.
So, smaller chain stores screw the people selling the stuff and get paid just to put the product on the shelf, and they screw you with higher margins to you also.
Either way you go, some corprate fatcat gets all the money anyways.
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03/07/2006 07:48:02 AM · #15 |
To save starting another thread about lenspens thougth I would post here.
Anyways...
On the recent London GTG Manic showed us his lens pen and for anyone in the UK or Europe who wants one 7Day Shop have them for sale, I have already ordered mine as they do wonders for my glass.
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