Saturday ayem, I'm taking off to Ecuador!! I'll be there for 10 days, for work/research and, of course, fun! I'm meeting Mojojo and a team of sustainability experts there, and from Quito we're heading down to the jungle.
Which is why:
a) I've been posting rarely. Because I need to get a ton of things done before I leave.
b) I'll be posting rarely, since internet access will be hard to come by.
Meanwhile, here's a blast of asks from recent days.
Two days ago I went to Best Buy to get a camera for the trip. I decided on the Canon G11, since I need a top notch point and shoot for this trip and future projects of this nature.
On my way to the checkout counter, I googled the camera and my zipcode and saw the online price at the same merchant is $449.99.
Easiest ask ever.
"Can you match your online price?"
"Best Buy's online price? Sure!" the cashier said.
Then, as she started to manually override the price, I thought I'd try one more time.
"Actually, could you do $435? It's a work expense, but I'm paying for it out of pocket." (This wasn't totally out of left field - the cashier brought the camera from the locked cabinet and we chatted about what I need it for.)
She said no.
Oh well. Worth a shot.
And still shaved $50 off the sticker price.
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