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I was poking (heh) around the interweb this morning looking for the next tasty discount to serve you via another Dealbolt! post, good readers, when I stumbled across this item…

Get it for less: order it used.

Or better yet, have one to sell?

Of course this is just a marketing blunder, but what kind of person would I be if I didn’t try to perpetuate and share it? (And don’t say, “a good one” because no one cares. Well except for the good ones. They care, but they’ve clicked on through or back long before this point in the post…)

Link to actual product page (pops)
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At $9,999,999.99 I wouldn’t consider this Mio c310x a “steal”:

I guess the $149 deal wasn’t generating enough profit, so they decided to make back all the Black Friday money that they lost on all products for all time in just one sale of this GPS….. I wonder if it includes free delivery? I’ll pass; hey “That was Easy”

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Original post: GSM Lodge

“Unique” bicycle customizations.  Some highlights:

In case you want more, go to the original page for 38 more great pictures.

Some great examples of the misuse of literary devices.  Here is a taste: 

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
Joseph Romm, Washington

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
Russell Beland, Springfield

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Russell Beland, Springfield

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
Unknown

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
Jack Bross, Chevy Chase

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Russell Beland, Springfield

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
Unknown

Even more quotes on the original page.