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"Tired of caring for your kids? Give them to us, and we'll raise them until they're 15!"
- ~ Nickelodeon on themselves
Nickelodeon (also known as Nick; April 1, 1979 – April 30, 2005) was a cable television channel dedicated to quality programs aimed at children aged 6–until they switch to MTV. It was founded by Nick Cannon and later sold to Viacom and its dictator, Sumner Redstone. The channel was once known for airing/producing some of the greatest shows known to mankind, including All That, Kenan & Kel, Rugrats, Doug, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, Invader Zim, Hey Arnold!, and SpongeBob SquarePants seasons 1–3.
However, starting in 1998, it underwent a slow decline, as Redstone ordered the network to cancel its classic shows, thrust them into re-runs, and replace them with mediocre ones. In 2005, following the closing of Nickelodeon Studios, the network made the more extreme economy move of sacking "-elodeon" from its name, re-naming itself Nick, and removing all of its old shows completely.[1]
Since 2005, Nickelodeon has become so bad that it makes Disney Channel look cool, and Disney Channel is really gay. Sadly, the niche that Redstone sought—viewers who like bad programs—has not translated into greater sales of advertising.
edit History
edit Early years: 1979–1990
Nick was initially launched in 1977 as Pinwheel, but changed its name to Nickelodeon in 1979. Nick Cannon, the owner, founder, CEO, president, manager, and pseudo-god of the network who named it after himself, decided to steal some Canadian and British kids' shows and air them on the channel, at no expense.
One such show was the hip, irreverent, and groundbreaking sketch-comedy You Can't Do That on Television. The show starred such iconic people and characters as Les Lye, Christine "Moose" McGlade, Ronald Reagan, and Barth. One of the show's trademarks[2] was somebody getting slimed after replying "I don't know!" Slime was a staple of Nick for a while, but currently only appears in the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
Throughout the '80s, Nick stole more programming like Danger Mouse, The Tomorrow People, The Yesterday People, and the Stanley Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange starring Malcolm McDowell. However, the respective copyright owners of these programs sued the network for copyright and trademark infringement and won big time, leaving Nick with nothing on their schedule in those time slots.
They decided to save time by rerunning YCDTOTV over and over again, while in the meantime producing their own original series. The first one was the Marc Summers game show, Double Dare, which premiered in 1986. The show was an instant hit with critics and audiences across the country and helped put Nickelodeon on the map. Other shows produced during this time included What The Hell Does This Kid Do?, Kids Court, the highly-controversial Kid Nation, A Clockwork Orange: The Series, Eureeka's Castle, Finders Keepers, and the short-lived Super Sentai parody dub, Dynaman.
Tacos then saw to appeal the cowboys with the short-lived comedy series Hey Dude. It became expensive to produce these shows, so they were all immediately canceled as soon as the network opened their own studio in 1991.
edit Golden Age: 1991–1997
The 1990s saw a noticeable change for Nickelodeon. In 1991, Cannon made many positive changes. First, he opened Nickelodeon Studios in the summer of 1991, where Nick would their produce live-action shows. Second, he eliminated 90% of infomercials and subliminal messages on the channel. Third, he allowed Nick to produce their own animated series called "Nicktoons" (a parody of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoons"): cartoons with spunk and attitude.[3]
The original three Nicktoons were: Doug, named after and based on Cannon's son Doug; The Ren & Stimpy Show, a famous piece of anarchist propaganda; and Rugrats, which made millions of dollars for the channel and became their most reliable cash cow for the next 13 years. The writers of Nicktoons were children, forced to work to death à la the Industrial Revolution. They were a huge hit for the channel, and hypnotized millions of viewers never to stop watching TV.
The first show to be taped at Nickelodeon Studios was the game show Get the Picture, hosted by Anthony Hopkins, in which two teams had to guess pictures to win points. The show was short-lived, so the network decided to pour their money into more live-action such as Salute Your Shorts, Fifteen, Nick News, and Baywatch, all of which had varying degrees of success. Cannon wanted to see his empire reach a teenage audience, so in 1996, he launched Kenan & Kel, which gained a cult following among orange soda drinkers.
As the Golden Age of Nick marched on, more Nicktoons were introduced such as Rocko's Modern Life, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, and Hey Arnold!. They closed out the Golden Age in 1997, with The Angry Beavers.
edit Silver Age: 1998–2004
In 1998, Nick was bought out by Viacom and its dictator Sumner Redstone. Redstone fired Cannon and took over as president. Under him, the network underwent a slow decline, as he ordered them to cancel all their classic shows, thrust them into re-runs, and replace them with mediocre ones such as The Wild Thornberries, Rocket Power, and CatDog, most of which placed an emphasis on crude animation. They ended the 90s by launcing their secret weapon, SpongeBob SquarePants, a highly addictive series with many jokes understandable by teens and adults.
Following the turn of new millennium, Redstone launched two very addictive and dangerous Nicktoons: The Fairly OddParents and Invader Zim. These two series are considered to be some of the good shows aired on the channel, though the latter was later cancelled since kids were actually enjoying it.
On November 19, 2004, Nick released The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It was originally intended to close the book on the show, but Redstone saw what a huge success SpongeBob was and decided to shake things up...and not for the better.
edit Death and Dark Ages: 2005–present
On April 30, 2005, Redstone closed down Nickelodeon Studios because rat poison was accidently dumped into the cafeteria beef stew. After a government investigation and expired copyrights, he ordered ALL classic Nick shows to be removed from the schedule completely, effective immediately. This movement pissed off loyal Nick fans, who had watched the channel since they were born. The network went off the air for the next week, when Redstone made amends with Rupert Murdoch and the two began retooling the channel.
Over the next week, Redstone and Murdoch made several extreme changes to Nick: they renewed SpongeBob for crappy new seasons without the involvement of the original creator, replaced the child labor writers with free labor screenwriters, greenlit very badly-acted shows such as Unfabulous and Zoey 101, and sacked "-elodeon" from the channel's name and re-named it Nick.
Nick went back on the air on May 6, 2005. The first thing to be shown that day was "Fear of Krabby Patty", one of the crappy new episodes of SpongeBob. The rest of the day was filled with nothing but reruns of SpongeBob. In a way, this was Redstone and Murdoch's way of giving everyone a giant fucking middle finger.
Since 2005, Nickelodeon has become so bad that it makes Disney Channel look cool, and Disney Channel is really gay. Sadly, the niche that Redstone sought—viewers who like bad programs—has not translated into greater sales of advertising.
edit Blocks
edit SNICK
Saturday Night Nickelodeon (SNICK) was a godly two-hour block of programming that aired on Saturday nights from 1992 to 2004. It was hosted by teenagers who sat on a Big
Comfy Orange Couch. This block has since become legendary and influential to other similar blocks on other channels, including Saturday Night Live.
- Chuck Norris's Roundhouse Kick (1992–1994)
- Clarice Explains It All (1991–1994)
- Salute the Dark (1991–1993)
- Are You Afraid of Your Shorts? (1992–1998)
- The Good All That (1994–2000)
- The Crappy New All That (2001–2005)
- Kenan and Kel (1996–2000)
edit Nick at Nite
Nick at Nite launched on July 1, 1985 as a place to dump off old shows. Nostalgic viewers longing for a time when women stayed in the kitchen and minorities weren't allowed on golf courses, flocked to the network to view these shows. Older viewers today still flock to it because it means a chance to watch something other than Spongebob Squarepants for the 20th time in one day.
edit The 90s Are All That
On March 10, 2011, Entertainment Weakly reported that Nickelodeon is planning to bring back its 1990s shows and air them on their TeenNick channel in the fall. This is pretty much the only thing on TeenNick worth watching, other than maybe the occasional re-run of Drake and Josh.
edit List of shows
Nicktoons have almost always been characterized by characters with less than that of an ape intelligence and distort the human figure in their animated series, resulting in psychological trauma children about the identity and personality of their own. It is believed that make drawing competitions before releasing a series, and the worst drawing, or the deformed, is what keeps the misfortune of representing the series (true).
Nicktoons characters often have: square heads or American football heads, fat/huge rear legs, floating eyebrows, noses full of snot, 4 or 3 fingers on each hand, collars inspired by a wasp waist, giant brains (Jimmy Case penene-UTRON), arrows in the head, and skin colors that can only be explained if human cells have chloroplasts or the like.
edit Golden Age
- Doug (1991–1993): Cartoon about a young man who has to go through all kinds of problems. It has a blue-skinned best friend (probably out of the movie Avatar) and a faithful dog named chops (which was very tricky). Unfortunately, it was bought by Disney and separated from nickelodeon.
- Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996): Try a parallel universe where animals talk. Rocko a wallaby (a species of kangaroo), lives the craziest adventures with his friend Heffer, a steer cow bull horns obese thing, son of wolves parents.
- Rugrats (1991–2004): A Nicktoon about babies who talk, go on crazy adventures, and somehow remain babies for 13 years. After a successful 13 seasons and 3 movies, the creators decided to make a sequel series where the characters are adults facing the problems of daily life, such as alcohol, sexual confusion, theft, and money.
- Are you afraid of the dark ? (1992-2000): Series with actors who had horror stories around a fire and causing fear.
- Aaaaaaaaahh !!! Real Monsters (1994–1997): Series where the wild things are hidden in the sewers and go to school to learn to scare humans. The protagonists are Ickis (a red rabbit), Oblina (a black and white stick with Angelina Jolie lips) and Krumm (sort of naked dwarf holding his eyes with his hands); they always get into trouble because of Ickis.
- All That (1996–2000)
- Kenan & Kel (1996–2000)
- Salute Your Shorts
- Clarissa Explains It All
- Showgirls: The Animated Series
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete
- Hey Arnold! (1996–2004): A show about an orphan who lives with her stubborn crazy grandparents, which own an apartment building. Arnold is the typical American stereotype blond baseball lover and a black friend.
- The Angry Beavers (1997–2001): A Nicktoon that centers on two brother beavers who fight all the time. Most of the show's beaver actors now live in another country, due to the sexual abuse of human actors during production.
edit Silver Age
- CatDog (1998–2005): A Nicktoon that centers on two oddball brothers named Cat and Dog, who are conjoined with one another despite their clashing personalities. Cat and Dog were actually Happy Tree Friends that were cut in half, but the creators of the show forgot to press the Reset Button for the next episode, so they glued the two bodies together and created a mutant half-dog/half-cat. The show was originally pitched to MTV due to its dark premise, but was rejected.
- The Amanda Show (1999–2002): A sketch comedy starring Amanda Bearse, Drake Bell, and Josh Peck.
- Rocket Power (1999–2004): The first truly mediocre Nicktoon. It centers on Reggie, Otto, Squid, and Twister, a gang of X-TREME friends who love X-TREME sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, hockey, biking, and surfing. Otto is notable for being the most unlikable, cocky, pig-nosed punk in the history of television, and has committed various acts of mischief such as killing hookers, prank calling others, sneaking off to Beach Break during chroretime, and snowboarding out of bounds (and getting the shit shredded out of himself as a result). Thankfully, he is usually punished.
- SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–2004): The talking sponge idea finally took off. This zany Nicktoon was worked on by many of the same people who brought us Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life. This show started off decent with its first season, and really hit its stride in its second and third season. It ended with a movie in 2004, and nobody renewed it...we wish.
- Invader Zim (2001–2002): A darkly funny Nicktoon that centers on Zim, an alien invader who wants to conquer this filthy planet Earth and destroy the human race. Assisting him is a mindless robot slave named GIR, and opposing him is an elementary school kid with an oversized head named Dib. It was cancelled because children were too stupid (much like pathetic moose-worm babies) to understand its dystopian humor.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002–2006): A Nicktoon that centers on Jimmy, a boy genius who is basically a clone of Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory; however, unlike Dexter, Jimmy is a stubborn little shit who never gets taken down a peg. His friends are Carl, a nerd and lover of llamas, and Sheen, a retard and Ultra Lord freak. Together, they go on the best adventures of their young lives. Jimmy used his hypo-ray to make viewers watch his show until 2006, when it was cancelled because Sumner Redstone wanted nothing but SpongeBob, SpongeBob, SpongeBob on the channel.
- CalkZone (2002–2004): A boy and a piece of calk.
- My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003–2005): Robot Girl name Jenny or XJ9 saves the world and all that sort of crap, but it's pretty entertaining to watch, kinda funny if you're high, and has decent animation. Plus, Jenny is mai waifu.
- Drake & Josh (2004–2007): A white version of Kenan and Kel, with some surprisingly good humor and writing. One of the few good Nick shows made after 2000, without a doubt.
- Danny Phantom (2004–2007): The story of a teenage boy like no other, with subnormal and out the other world problems, acquires superpowers ghost to scare people, and make the bed wet commit suicide and save the world from ghosts terrible threats, this superhero was created by the same author of the Fairly OddParents, a day after having smoked marihuana, and hence came the idea of the character alleged.
edit Dark Ages
Nick's current shows are very bad. Thanks to the time series of Arnold as SpongeBob and The Fairly OddParents still has hypnotic powers, has been awarded many tickets canal and still bring new chapters. Other series that have come to be canceled soon are.
- SpongeBob: sea sponge that makes all kinds of silly things with his friend Patrick Star.
- The Mystery of Anubis: Try a pendejitos who are in a house, are a newcomer yankee (Nina), a lesbian (Patricia), an "attempt to Justin Bieber" (Fabian), a strawberry (Amber), an idiot (Mick), an robanovios (Mara), an masturbated (Jerome) and a black shit (Alfie), it should also say that the friend has disappeared girlfriend Patricia, nurse Joy.
- The Penguins of Madagascar: Another less flawed than normal to bring movie characters to the small screen, attempt is 4 penguins in the zoo, planning operations miltitares ... think it's unique content.
- Big Time Rush: It sounds like the Jonas Brothers, but Nickelodeon and better.
- TUFF Puppy: The series is about a dog and a cat stupid bitch who are secret agents who get help from Chuck Norris to stop an evil Pulgosa city.
- Mommy 101 (2005–2008): Jamie Lynn Spears plays Cruella De Vil's daughter, who is on a quest to capture 101 Dalmatians while attending Pacific Coast Academy. She blew it around episode 63, though, when some Mississippi hick got her knocked up.
- Avatar: The Last Good Show on Nickelodeon (2005–2008): An unusually lofty Nicktoon for their current standards. Much like Star Wars's borrowing from Western culture, this show intricately incorporates aspects of Eastern culture. It also kicks ass because the people in the show can attack each other by using air, water, earth, and/or fire. For some reason the show suggests the moon makes water attacks more powerful, which is ridiculous because everyone knows that the Moon has no water on it. Nevertheless, the show as a whole still beats the hell out of seasons 4–9 of SpongeBob, and it's the only Nick show made since 2005 that's worth a damn. Shame they were only 3 seasons and it was adapted into a movie by M. Night Shyamalan...no one deserves such a cruel fate.
- ScumBob SnarePants (2005–∞): Seasons 4–9 of SpongeBob, showrun by Paul Tibbitt and written by circus chimps Richard Pursel, Casey Alexander, and Zeus Cervas. A mean-spirited gross-out show that could only appeal to retards and manchildren. It is also responsible for the declining popularity and impending cancellation of The Simpsons.
- The Mighty B! (2008–2011):[4] A Nicktoon about a girl scout who goes insane and thinks she's a bee.
- Tak and the Power of Juju (2007–2009): Nobody even speaks of this one anymore. Nor does anyone know what the hell the writers were smoking when they thought of it. It died in less than a year.
- The Penguins of Madagascar (2009–2012): A documentary series, and another flawed attempt at bringing movie characters to the small screen. It centers on four penguins who live in Madagascar, where they plan military operations and smoke weed. It's...unique, to say the least.
- iCarly: A show about a prissy little fuck hosting a webshow with one of the most meat-loving people ever.
- Fanboy and Chum Chum: Mediocre 3D caricature created by the creators of Jimmy Neutron, but is drugged by inventing a couple of characters stupid idiots who do drugs with Frosty Frozen Ice Cream, and superheroes are created, is a Fanboy superdrogado that Batman is believed, but fused with Ultra-Lord, whose superpowers are sucking dick care for Robin bootlicker turn Chum Chum. The worst show on the entire channel. Contains nothing but potty jokes.
- Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures: Rocket Power without the Power.
- All Grown Up!: Bad spin-off of Rugrats that featured the babies as preteens who acted like teens for some reason. It died really fast.
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: A show that has Mexicans.
- The Naked Brothers Band: A band of little kids trying to act like they're The Beatles. Forget this.
- Victorious: Major Loss.
- Glenn Martin, DDS: Let's just say it involves cheesy stop motion, a lame-brained dentist, and a dog with an oversized anus. Think about it...yeah, not a pretty image.
- Back at the Barnyard (2007–2011): A crime drama about animals who spend all night partying, led by a male cow with an udder named Otis. Sex, drugs, and rock n'roll are common themes in the series.
- T.U.F.F. Puppy: A Sin City-esq drama by Frank Miller, Butch Hartman, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee and Tom Hanks about a dog who moonlights as a serial killer vigilante by night and bangs a hot cat chick by day.
- Big Time Rush: Since we're too scared to watch it, we got a 12-year-old girl to write the following plotline for us: ZOMG!!!!! BTR it is about like these 4 guys named Kendal, Logan, Carloz and James but nobody cares about anyone but James bc he is freaaaaaking haaaaaawt!!!!!!!!!one!!111!!!! lol jk so um anyway I guess they win liek a contest or something and this fat guy and his blak girlfriend manage them and they get in to all kinds of antics LOL!!!!!
- Planet Shit: This was the sequel series of Jimmy Neutron, but this time the protagonist is crazy weird monkey experiment Jimmy Neutron, Sheen Estevez Shit, who after all the failed experiments, will get into his lab to steal a rocket, after Jimmy steals your card Ultra-Lord, and he will escape into space and lands on a strange planet called Venus Zeenu, where the emperor of the planet does, and wants to dominate the world, his new friend is a drugged monkey, which has the ability to speak, and an alien rapist named doppy Drugs, who stole things his ex-best friend of all the previous series, Carl Weezer, this series can be considered Nickelodeon plagiarism to planet of the Apes.
- Dragon Ball Z Kai: Hope that Nick is becoming cool again.
- Power Rangers: Need I say more?
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Okay, we get it!
- Ojamajo Doremi: Magic?
edit Current schedule
8:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 8:30 - Spongebob Squarepants 9:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 9:30 - dora the explorer 10:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 10:30 - Spongebob Squarepants 11:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 11:30 - Icarly 12:00 - icarly 12:30 - Icarly 1:00 - Icarly 1:30 - Spongebob Squarepants 2:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 2:30 - Spongebob Squarepants 3:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 3:30 - drake and josh 4:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 4:30 - the fairly oddparents 5:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 5:30 - the fairly oddparents 6:00 - the fairly oddparents 6:30 - the fairly oddparents 7:00 - the fairly oddparents 7:30 - the fairly oddparents 8:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 8:30 - Spongebob Squarepants 9:00 - Spongebob Squarepants 10:00 - Spongebob Squarepants


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I've tried threatening the person who made the quiz with sabotage of her laptop/whiteboard/ classroom and it has not worked.
I'll post the answer as soon as it is found out.
I don't need this kind of problem so close to the end of term.....
I can't work it out!
When will you know the answer?????
This could ruin my Christmas!
I've tried threatening the person who made the quiz with sabotage of her laptop/whiteboard/ classroom and it has not worked.
I'll post the answer as soon as it is found out.
surely a quick search for the answer sheet on their home drive wouldn't be difficult
We tryed that
446656 Pairs of Semi Transparent Nickers in Paradise?
(I know it's spelt wrong but it's nearly Christmas :-))
Quackers, is this you, too?
I've spent hours trying to think of the answer to this, with no luck!
Please please do post when (if?) the answers are reveiled to you!!
Tommorrow morning i get to see the answer.Originally Posted by maniac
Price of staying the night in..... (not sure, but it's not preston)Originally Posted by Quackers
UPDATE: still not sure what P is, but that is the exact cost in dollars of 6 hours in space with Space Adventures.
tomorrow morning is nearly gone.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by Quackers
Come on!!!! You don't know how many people are hanging on waiting for the answer here!
Gotta wait for the staff buffet now for the answer to be told.... the minute i get to know i will post it. We think its somthing to do with newton and pi now, but could be wrong.....
Well, i know the answer now, our school telephone number is 296500 , and 446656 is the position of school telephone number in pi .
How the f*** did anyone actually think of that, or even research it! What a silly question.
Did anyone actually get it right??
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|01 Oct 2012
DVI port on monitor is stuck res of 640x480 VGA port works fine
I have dual monitors......my primary display monitor is a Chimei CMV223D
My secondary display monitor is an Acer AL1916W.
My graphics card is an HD ATI Radeon 5800.
My primary display monitor which usually has a display resolution of 1680x1050 is currently stuck on 640x480 and in the property settings it won't let me change the resolution. The cable running from the Graphics card is an HDMI cable with a HDMI/DVI converter. I have also tried using the DVI port of the video card to the DVI port of the PC which comes up with same problem. Using a DVI/VGA converter and a VGA cable the VGA port on the monitor works fine!!! SOOOO long story short there is definitely something going on with the monitors DVI port.........
This randomly occurred overnight and is driving me insane to know what I need to fix. I have used different cables and to no such luck. My secondary monitor is just humming away just fine! But I really need my primary display.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled video drivers for the graphics card which is the Catalyst control centre suite and all monitor drivers appear to be up to date.
WHY oh why is my monitor locked at this resolution!!??? How to fix please help!!!
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The science is not settled
Dr. Steven Koonin is the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. Formerly, he was undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during President Barack Obama's first term. So, not a guy you'd think would be a Koch-funded climate denier. Yet, he writes in the Wall Street Journal that the current state of climate science is not settled, despite what others may say.
After spending several paragraphs highlighting both our lack of scientific understanding of basic climate processes, and the unreliability of the different computer models and their predictions, he concludes:
These and many other open questions are in fact described in the IPCC research reports, although a detailed and knowledgeable reading is sometimes required to discern them. They are not "minor" issues to be "cleaned up" by further research. Rather, they are deficiencies that erode confidence in the computer projections. Work to resolve these shortcomings in climate models should be among the top priorities for climate research.
Yet a public official reading only the IPCC's "Summary for Policy Makers" would gain little sense of the extent or implications of these deficiencies. These are fundamental challenges to our understanding of human impacts on the climate, and they should not be dismissed with the mantra that "climate science is settled."
While the past two decades have seen progress in climate science, the field is not yet mature enough to usefully answer the difficult and important questions being asked of it. This decidedly unsettled state highlights what should be obvious: Understanding climate, at the level of detail relevant to human influences, is a very, very difficult problem.
This is not coming from some right-wing whack job. It is the sober assessment of the science from a former Obama Administration official. Claims that the "science is settled" are just that: claims. They are claims made to further a specific political agenda, not a realistic summation of what we actually know.
Yet we are told that massive government action is required—usually leavened with a generous dollop of socialism—to prevent disaster. A disaster, by the way, than cannot be confidently predicted. If that is so, the predictions of success for ameliorative actions cannot be confidently predicted either. Indeed, we cannot truly say that massive ameliorative actions are even needed.
"The science is settled," therefore, is not a factual, scientific statement. It is a political one. It deserves no more respect than any other political assertion.
Economic Statistics for 23 Sep 14
ICSC-Goldman reports weekly retail sales rose 0.1%, and rose 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. Redbook reports retail sales rose 3.7% on a year-ago basis.
The FHFA House Price Index rose a slight 0.1% in July. On a year-over-year basis, the index is up 4.4%.
The Markit PMI manufacturing index flash for September is unchanged from the August final reading of 57.9.
The Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index rose 2 point to 14 in September.
Meanwhile in Africa
Ebola continues to ravage the western part of the continent:
Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.
In the worst-case scenario, Liberia and Sierra Leone could have 21,000 cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the disease keeps spreading without effective methods to contain it. These figures take into account the fact that many cases go undetected, and estimate that there are actually 2.5 times as many as reported.
If that's the case, then containment would seem all but impossible.
However, if it is able to be contained and everything goes to plan, there is a "best case" scenario:
In the best-case model — which assumes that the dead are buried safely and that 70 percent of patients are treated in settings that reduce the risk of transmission — the epidemic in both countries would be "almost ended" by Jan. 20, the report said. It showed the proportion of patients now in such settings as about 18 percent in Liberia and 40 percent in Sierra Leone.
Unfortunately, best case scenarios rarely if ever come to pass. They assume too much goes well with "the plan", communication, cooperation, behavior and many other human activities, and rule out people acting on misinformation and self-interest contrary to the "best case" scenario's plan. That's not to say epidemic can't eventually be contained … or burn itself out. It's to say betting on the "best case" scenario puts you at odds with human nature.
There's another reason not to expect the "best case" scenario. The agencies who are spouting all the stats really don't know the actual extent of the outbreak:
The World Health Organization acknowledged weeks ago that despite its efforts to tally the thousands of cases in the region, the official statistics probably "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."
The report does not include figures for Guinea because case counts there have gone up and down in ways that cannot be reliably modeled.
The point? We're going to hear a lot of happy talk about how the world's effort is going to contain this outbreak and, at least for a while, they're going to point toward the best case scenario as their goal. And it is a worthy goal. But you have to remember that as with many government or quasi-government bureaucracies, their worth is measured in how successful they are – or report they are. It's how they receive funds. So the propensity is to "happy talk" and favorable stats. And, as we've all learned with "climate change", models can be monkeyed with.
As an example of why the best case scenario is unlikely, the plan for containment relies on "effective methods" to contain it – such as treatment centers where patients go and allow the problem to be isolated. But in reality, there aren't enough beds to do that:
At least one aid group working in Liberia is already shifting its focus to teaching people about home care and providing materials to help. Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the aid group Samaritan's Purse, said, "I believe inevitably this is going to move into people's houses, and the notion of home-based care has to play a more prominent role." He said there could be 100,000 or more cases by the end of 2014.
"Where are they going to go?" Mr. Isaacs asked. "It's too late. Nobody's going to build 100,000 beds."
He's right. And so isolation, a key portion of "the plan", is put in severe jeopardy.
Key take away? Beware of all the happy talk. This isn't a time for propaganda and misleading stats. But we are dealing with bureaucracies, spokespersons and the like. This is a time for honest, above-board information so the public can stay informed about something that could threaten their lives.
Let's see what we actually get.
Political Correctness and the "War on Women": NHL Edition
If you know anything about hockey, you're aware that for the spectators it's a testosterone filled affair that satisfies our base urges for battle. Much like football. What better to accompany a manly-men game than pretty girls in skimpy outfits? So, sometime in the early 2000's, NHL teams starting employing Ice Girls to skate around the rink during TV timeouts, etc, in order to clear the playing surface of built up snow. Predictably, it was a big hit. At least, until Mother Jones decided to stick its buzz-killing nose into things: "The Freezing, Hungry Lives of NHL "Ice Girls":
I co-wrote an article last month about the working conditions of NFL cheerleaders: Five cheer squads had recently sued their football teams alleging sub-minimum-wage pay and mandatory "jiggle tests," among other indignities. Not long after the story ran, I received an email from a woman who had worked as one of the Philadelphia Flyers' "ice girls." "Speaking from personal experience," she wrote, "ice girls are treated very similarly."
When a player walks in, it's time to go: Both the Kings and the Flyers, like a number of other NHL teams, have adopted policies that strongly discourage relationships between ice girls and hockey players: There was to be no fraternization of any kind, the women told me. To prevent rumors from starting, the ice girls were instructed to make sure they weren't in the same place as the players outside of work. But the burden of responsibility was placed on the women: If a Kings ice girl was at a restaurant or bar and a player walked in, she was expected to get up and leave, even in the middle of a meal.
Short shorts in frigid weather: Some teams, including the Flyers, have co-ed ice crews, but the men aren't wearing booty-shorts and crop tops. And while most games are held indoors, teams and their cheer squads sometimes participate in outdoor games and events. In early 2012, the Flyers took part in a three-day outdoor festival and game called the Winter Classic. "It was 20 degrees and we were in shorts, with two pairs of stockings," a former ice girl told me. Depending on the day, they spent six to nine hours outdoors: "It really felt like we were in some kind of torture camp." Said another: "I've never been so cold in my life."
Blah, blah, blah. There's more, but you get the picture.
For the most part, political correctness nonsense results in silly annoyances. In this case, however, it cost a bunch of women their jobs. That's right, in the aftermath of this article, the Flyers decided to get rid of the Ice Girls … and only the Ice Girls. If you know anything about Philly fans, you know that didn't go over well:
Flyers fans booed the guys on the ice Monday night … because they weren't women.
We're not talking hockey. We're talking the crew scraping the ice during breaks in the action.
Apparently, the team and other NHL clubs succumbed to complaints about sexism and working conditions, including duties like manning doors in frigid temperatures. A June article in Mother Jones article may have played a key role.
Actually, by Philly standards, the reaction was pretty positive.
But the really strange thing here is that, while some of these women had complaints (and, seriously, how unusual is that?), for the most part, they loved the job. But because of the disdain invited by the MJ article, they now have none. But the guys all kept theirs. It's almost like another confirmed kill in the left's War on Women (I say almost because, as far as I know, Ted Kennedy still has the only confirmed kill (h/t: Dave Burge)).
I suppose the Flyers organization could have just dressed the girls up in warmer, less skimpy clothing (that's basically how they are in Carolina and DC, for example), but that wouldn't address all of the complaints. The team would have to give the girls (but apparently not the guys) raises, and alter team rules re fraternization, among other things. But what would be the unintended consequences of that? I guess they just figured it wasn't worth the hassle because, it probably isn't.
It really is comical, though, how the left can so consistently promote policies and behaviors that hurt the very people they purport to protect. It's as if they are completely incapable of learning from, well, anything. They simply try to wish a world into existence and then are completely flummoxed when things don't turn out the way they planned.
Oh well, at least these poor girls won't be so exploited anymore working in a position that they had to beat out 100's of other girls just to get. Way to go, lefties!
The march of the mimes
Walter Russell Meade does a great job of summing up the impact of yesterday's "March of the Usual Lefty Organizations" in the name of taxing us into poverty with a carbon tax:
Street marches today are to real politics what street mime is to Shakespeare. This was an ersatz event: no laws will change, no political balance will tip, no UN delegate will have a change of heart. The world will roll on as if this march had never happened. And the marchers would have emitted less carbon and done more good for the world if they had all stayed home and studied books on economics, politics, science, religion and law. Marches like this create an illusion of politics and an illusion of meaningful activity to fill the void of postmodern life; the tribal ritual matters more than the political result.
And he's precisely right. Besides being the usual collection of leftist professional protesters sprinkled with clueless pols and celebrities, nothing of note is going to change at the UN Climate Summit. Nothing. The outcome of that is, as they say, "already written in the books".
The world's largest emitters are declining to show up, even for appearances. The Chinese economy has been the No. 1 global producer of carbon dioxide since 2008, but President Xi Jinping won't be gracing the U.N. with his presence. India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi (No. 3) will be in New York but is skipping the climate parley. Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 4) has other priorities, while Japan (No. 5) is uncooperative after the Fukushima disaster that has damaged support for nuclear power. Saudi Arabia is dispatching its petroleum minister.
China, however, has found a wonderful new way to forever avoid any responsibility for reducing its output. It has become the "champion" for the poor and underdeveloped countries of the world and is helping put forward their demands:
China led calls by emerging economies on Friday for the rich to raise financial aid to the poor as a precondition for a United Nations deal to combat global warming. "When the financing is resolved, this will set a very good foundation to negotiate a good agreement," China's chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua told delegates from about 170 nations. Xie said developed nations, which have promised to raise aid to $100 billion a year by 2020, should have legally binding obligations to provide finance and technology to emerging economies, along with legally binding cuts in emissions.
Well of course the "rich nations" should … because that would have them pay China and India – two of the biggest carbon producers around. So China has, in effect, made an offer they must refuse, because leaving out the two largest carbon producers is sort of self-defeating, isn't it? And anyway, we should pay for our "rich nation privilege", shouldn't we?
Meanwhile, Dr. Steven Koonin makes the point of saying what is clearly the truth in an op-ed in the WSJ – the science of climate change is not settled science. In fact, it's not even close. Dr. Koonin, by the way, was the undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during Obama's first term. So this isn't some right-wing ideologue spouting off, but a serious scientist. Interestingly, he makes hash of the reliability of the climate models:
The models differ in their descriptions of the past century's global average surface temperature by more than three times the entire warming recorded during that time. Such mismatches are also present in many other basic climate factors, including rainfall, which is fundamental to the atmosphere's energy balance. As a result, the models give widely varying descriptions of the climate's inner workings. Since they disagree so markedly, no more than one of them can be right.
And we're still looking for that one model that is right … but remember, it is on the basis of those models that this entire "scare" or alarmism finds its roots. Make it a point to read the entire Koonin piece.
But never fear as our fearless leader will be in NY to address the UN summit (most likely a rushed speech between fund raisers and golf). Not that it will have any effect or make any difference. But in his mind, it will be "action". In reality, it'll be another example of him again being outplayed on the world stage.
Economic Statistics for 22 Sep 14
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to -0.21 in August versus 0.39 in July.
Existing home sales fell a disappointing -1.8% in August to a lower-than-expected annual rate of 5.05 million. On a year-over-year basis, existing home sales are down -5.3%. Nearly all of the recent housing data has been negative, showing a lot of weakness in the housing sector.
You can be a guinea pig!
So, I got this email from a researcher who's looking for libertarians to respond to a study:
I am conducting research on ideology and public opinion. Most studies on public opinion ask subjects whether they are liberals or conservatives. Options to identify as "libertarian" (or anything else) are almost always left out. To say that libertarians are underrepresented in academic research wouldn't be enough; they aren't even given a chance to identify themselves as such. Therefore, I would like to include libertarians in one of my studies regarding opinions of candidates and their policies. To do this, I need to seek them out through blogs and websites. I was wondering if you would be interested in posting a link to my online survey on your site or in an email distribution.
Some important things to know about this survey:
-All responses are 100% anonymous. There is no way for me to link any identifying information to the survey responses.
-The survey has been cleared by an Institutional Review Board at Stony Brook University. It satisfies all the requirements for a study that uses human subjects.
-It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete
-It does not seek to promote any kind of ideological agenda
The survey can be found here: https://stonybrooksurveys.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_87ChNJu5zdzMgDP
If it's something you feel like you want to participate in, please feel free. I took it. Seems harmless.
This Week's Car Review
This week, the car review…isn't a car review. It's a review of a time machine.
New Podcast
The new podcast is up at the Podcast Page.
Economic Statistics for 19 Sep 14
The Conference Board's index of leading indicators rose 0.2% in August, following a strong, revised 1.1% in July.
The Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations survey reports that businesses expect 2.1% annual inflation over the next year.


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Road trip. :-)
The sun was shining on the Sunshine Coast when we awoke in Sechelt.
We strolled over to a local coffee shop for breakfast. Sat in the sun.
Mom was impressed with the friendly and chatty Sechelt locals. One shopkeep offered to print some documents for us. For free.
We took a sidetrip to Porpoise Bay to check out the option to sea kayak Porpoise Bay Provincial Park. Looks good to me.
Next was Gibson's.
Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,200 … It is the main marine gateway to the Sunshine Coast.
… Gibsons is best known in Canada as the setting of the popular and long running CBC Television series The Beachcombers, which aired from 1972 to 1990. The storefront "Molly's Reach", now a cafe …
The Beachcombers … is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television. In all, 387 episodes were produced.
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We caught the ferry over to Horseshoe Bay. Another gorgeous trip.
This was my 3rd time in 2014 traveling the Sea to Sky Highway. On the advice of a tourist information guy we grabbed a hotel in Squamish, built new for the 2010 Olympics.
We continued up to Whistler for a walking tour.
Nice afternoon. The mountain bikers were just coming off the hill, hitting the pubs.
Another excellent day on the Sunshine Circuit.
We had a hot tub. Then ordered in Pizza to go with our wine. :-)


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Editor's note: This guest post provides context on mission focused data analytics in the federal space by one of the leaders of the federal big data movement, Ray Muslimani. -bg
2012 will go down as a "Big" year for Big Data in the public sector. Rhetoric and hype has been followed by tangible action on the part of both government and industry. The $200 million Big Data initiative unveiled by the White House in March 2012 was an injection of R&D and credibility towards efforts to develop tools and technologies to help solve the nation's most pressing challenges.
On the industry side, the recently issued TechAmerica report, "Demystifying Big Data," provides agencies with a roadmap for using Big Data to better serve citizens. It also offers a set of policy recommendations and practical steps agencies can take to get started with Big Data initiatives.
For all of the enthusiasm around Big Data this year, every indication is that 2013 will be the year when Big Data transforms the business of government. Below are 5 steps that need to be taken in order for Big Data to evolve in 2013 and deliver on its promise.
Demystify Big Data
Government agencies warmed to the potential of Big Data throughout 2012, but more education is required to help decision makers wade through their options and how further investments can be justified. Removing the ambiguitiessurrounding Big Data requires an emphasis in 2013 on education from both industry and government.
The TechAmerica Big Data report is a good example of how industry can play an active role in guiding agencies through Big Data initiatives. It also underscores that vendors can't generate more Big Data RFPs through marketing slicks and sales tactics alone. This approach will not demystify Big Data – it will simply seed further doubt if providers of Big Data tools and solutions focus only on poking holes in competitor alternatives.
Industry and government should follow proven templates for education in 2013. For example, agencies can arrange "Big Data Days" in a similar format as Industry Tech Days occur today. Big Data industry days can help IT providers gain better insight into how each Agency plans to approach their Big Data challenges in 2013 and offer these agencies an opportunity to see a wide range of Big Data services.
The Big Data education process must also extend to contracting officers. Agencies need guidance on how RFPs can be constructed to address a service-based model.
Consumerize Big Data
While those within the public sector with the proper training and skills to analyze data have benefited from advanced Big Data tools, it has been far more difficult for everyday business users and decision makers to access the data in a useful way. Sluggish data query responses, data quality issues, and a clunky user experience is undermining the benefits Big Data Analytics can deliver and requiring users to be de facto "data scientists" to make sense of it all.
Supporting this challenge is a 2012 MeriTalk survey, "The Big Data Gap," that finds just 60 percent of IT professionals indicate their agency is analyzing the data it collects and a modest 40 percent are using data to make strategic decisions. All of this despite the fact that 96 percent of those surveyed expects their agency's stored data to grow in the next two years by an average of 64 percent. The gap here suggests a struggle for non "data scientists" to convert data into business decisions. What if any government user could ask a question in natural language and receive the answer in a relevant visualization? For Big Data to evolve in 2013 we must consumerize the user experience by removing spreadsheets and reports, and place the power of analytics in the hands of users of any level without analytics expertise.
Mobilize Big Data
IDC Government Insights predicts that in 2013, 35 percent of new Federal and state applications will be mobile. At the same time, 65 percent of Federal IT executives expect mobile device use to increase by 20 percent in 2013, according to The 2012-2013 Telework/Mobile IT Almanac.
Part of consumerizing Big Data means building it for any device so that users do not need to be tethered to their desktops to analyze data. Agency decision makers must be empowered to easily view and analyze data on tablets and smartphones, while the increase of teleworking in the public sector requires Big Data to be accessible from anywhere, at any time, and on any device.
There is promising innovation at work by both established Federal IT providers and upstarts in taking a mobile-first path to Big Data, rather than the traditional approach of building BI dashboards for the desktop. The degree to which 2013 sees a shift in Big Data from the desktop to tablets and smartphones will depend on how forcefully solutions providers employ a mobile-first approach to Big Data.
Act on Big Data
A tremendous amount of "thought" energy went into Big Data in 2012. For Big Data to evolve in a meaningful way in 2013, initiatives and studies must generate more action in the form of Big Data RFIs and RFPs.
Within the tight budget climate, agencies will not act on Big Data if vendor proposals require massive investments in IT infrastructure and staffing. There must be a shift –to the extent possible – of the financial and resource burden from agency to vendor. For example, some vendors have developed "Big Data Clouds" that allow agencies to leverage a secure, scalable framework for storing and managing data, along with a toolset for performing consumer-grade search and analysis on that data.
Open Big Data
Adoption of Big Data solutions has been accelerated by open source tools such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, and HBase. While some agencies will find it tempting to withdraw to the comfort of proprietary Big Data tools that they can control in closed systems, that path undermines the value Big Data can ultimately deliver.
One could argue that as open source goes in 2013, Big Data goes as well. If open source platforms and tools continue to address agency demands for security, scalability, and flexibility, benefits within from Big Data within and across agencies will increase exponentially. There are hundreds of thousands of viable open source technologies on the market today. Not all are suitable for agency requirements, but as agencies update and expand their uses of data, these tools offer limitless opportunities to innovate. Additionally, opting for open source instead of proprietary vendor solutions prevents an agency from being locked into a single vendor's tool that it may at some point outgrow or find ill suited for their needs.
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Crime Stoppers offers reward to locate Ramona fugitive
San Diego County Crime Stoppers and San Diego County Sheriff's Department's Fugitive Task Force are looking for Dean Mostad, wanted for willful discharging of a firearm in a grossly negligent manner from his Ramona residence.
According to the sheriff's department, Mostad is a 59-year-old 6-foot, 6-inch tall, 225-pound white male. He has red/auburn hair and blue eyes, said the report.
Mostad is suspected of firing several rounds from his handgun while inside his Ramona home, the sheriff's department said. A $500,000 bail felony warrant was issued on April 13.
Anyone with information on the location of the suspect should call the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 888-580-8477.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in this case. Anonymous email and text messages can be sent via www.sdcrimestoppers.org.
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I'm not gonna lie…what you're about to read was inspired by a real-life online shopping experience. I won't mention the guilty site, but I'll say they sell clothing and jewelry to young urbanites.
As I relate the following three eCommerce mishaps, be thinking about whether you can eradicate all of them from your business by the time the "Holiday Rush" hits. ALL are preventable, if you start today and take one item at a time.
Let's start at the "precipitating event;" the spark that lit my desire to shop online…
1. An email with a promo code arrived. w00t! They paid attention to past purchases, and sent me a great promotion: 10% off a brand I've purchased before, and free shipping if the order exceeds a certain amount.
How They're Losing Sales: Despite not mentioning an expiration date for the promo code, it was expired by the time I reached checkout. I'm notoriously slow for opening emails from online retailers, but I bet I'm not alone. Creating a sense of urgency with an expiration date is fine, but remember that shoppers sometimes go weeks without going through their personal email accounts to read your promo codes.
And now it's Customer Service's turn…
2. When the promo code came up as expired, I was understandably disappointed. I'd just spent a fair amount of my weekend building up enough value in my shopping cart to qualify for the free shipping (Yes, I'm cheap.) My credit card was out of my wallet. So, I clicked the live chat in the cart to see if they'd extend the promo code, or give me an equivalent one.
How They're Losing Sales: The live chat agent, while polite and earnest, was not able to do anything to help me (be a cheapskate). They weren't empowered by their employer to get creative and save me from abandoning my cart. They suggested I call the "real" Customer Service during regular M-F business hours. So my guess is that the live chat is being outsourced, which is fine, but if they aren't empowered to save sales, they're probably not giving good ROI.
Now stepping up to the plate, Technology…
3. I came back the next day with the intention of calling the retailer and trying to get them to extend the promo code or give me the equivalent deal. So, I returned to the site and clicked "My Cart" to review what I'd put in there, and have it on-screen when I called.
How They're Losing Sales: They didn't save my cart! So many sites are saving cart items via cookie that I assumed my items would be there the following day or week. So now I'm definitely not going to re-build my cart AND call them to try and negotiate the promo code. I'm going to just repress the whole memory…maybe I'll even forget the retailer's brand in the process!
These 3 blunders may seem unconnected from a business perspective, but from a buyer perspective, they were all part of a persuasion scenario that broke down and turned a VERY motivated shopper into a lost sale.
I do like the site, and hope they can address these issues and stay in business. But they and others will have a very painful holiday sales season if they don't treat the disparate parts as a unified buying experience that must be nearly flawless to be profitable.
Ouch! That's irritating.
Not only does this lead to lost sales, it also damages the brand. You'd need to be a very loyal customer to go back and purchase from that store in the future.
..or you get a "special, limited time offer" in the snail mail which directs you to the web site for more info. Then the info is absolutely buried on the site.
Great article! I'm happy to say we do a pretty good job on all three. Our promo codes rarely expire in less than a week (usually 2-3 weeks), our CSRs are empowered to save a sale, and our cart sticks around for ages.
Thanks and good stuff!
Totally annoying, I agree. I've had similar experiences.
Another big problem is FINALLY getting through the checkout and find out, after my order is placed, that the item is out of stock.
What's the point of having a customer service if they can't do anything? That's the main reason Nordstroms customer service is so good…they empower their employees with the ability to actually help their customers. You're right, even customer service online needs that same quality.
You've cited 3 important DON'Ts in a business. I actually agree with you. Like you, I seldom check my email, so I'll be assuming that the promo period already expired.
Thank you !!! yes those are all top-of-the-line BLUNDERS! May I …
Blunder #4 Not providing a secure site for me to conduct my business… meaning the Green Url bar which denotes use of Extended Validation SSL. And yes I review the certificate for authentication.
Blunder #5.. Tell me before I purchase that my items are not available. That outfit I just bought cant' arrive partially in July and then after October.
Let's get savvy and secure when we shop!
Hello Brendan,
Just wondering, but could the retailer have run out of inventory and that is why the item was no longer in your cart. They should have relayed that message of course, but could that have been the case?
Unfortunately, none of these issues are unusual. I had an even worse experience with live chat where the person couldn't "do" anything. I think in many cases live chat is not thought through and put in place intending only to help people navigate or complete the checkout process.
Thank you !!! yes those are all top-of-the-line BLUNDERS!
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Well there are always some mistakes to be done. From that point of view I understand why you say that they lose clients. Totally truth. But from their point of view it was not so obvious that their own promotions will turn out to be something taking customers from them instead of bringing more. Sometimes it is just not fair that we try to do one thing and it becomes opposite.
Great 3 ways are defined to Lose an Online Sale.You are sharing useful information to with readers, the readers will get advantage from this.
@ Keith: no, i had half a dozen items in the cart, so unlikely that ALL of them were out of stock one day later!
Creating a sense of urgency has always been the key.Its like a textbook clause.Besides yes if Live chat agent in that case is definitely giving a good Return on Investment.But that will not hurt the company so much as his service definitely outsource(Cheap).and yes they definitely should have saved your cart.Every reputed online retailer does it.
[EDIT]Live chat agent is definitely not giving a good ROI.
Oh dear. Looks like they weren't too keen on your business. As someone else pointed out, what's the point of a live chat facility if they can't actually help you?
My only small concern is that, by extending their offer to you after it expired, they would be kind of training you NOT to take their future offers quite as seriously. After all, you'll know that all you need to do is hop over to customer service and they'll give you the discount.
Still, I'd have probably given the discount, purely for the fact that you bothered to phone and ask for it
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How about this from a very well known and reputable vitamin supplier:
1) Receive a printed catalog with a promo code.
2) Order online and then enter the code.
3) The code is rejected again & again,
4) When calling customer service – you are informed the code is only valid for PHONE IN orders!
5) Scratch your head at their obvious insanity – and order by phone.
Yes – this happened to me & my wife more than once.
Or, you receive a catalog in snail mail, but, when you go to the website, there is no info re the mailing, and sometimes the products are not even on the site. And…the cust svc rep knows nothing about it.
These are good points all… Would you have called a tollfree number if there was on online chat?
What was the free shipping trigger? We had ours set at $33 for the longest time (Our stuff is light and very inexpensive oddities and novelties) – Just raised it to $39 because of increased postage costs. I wonder if maybe a $5 coupon wouldn't pull better than free shipping.
… If there was NO online chat, I meant- sorry
Promo codes can really reduce your sales. Many people just google promo codes so once they get posted on the net everyone can find them. Not just a few select customers.
You should tell the whole story to their "training department" (hopefully they have one), it is valuable material for everybody that trains companies / their employers etc. Seriously, do it, they might use it and even give you a nice bonus / promo code in exchange, at least this is how I would react, SY
Thanks for the great article.
You have told us 3 ways which are gonna lose the sale.
Definitely it is useful.
All we need to do is trying to avoid it.
Where can I read more about sales mistakes?
I think comments are broken?
Interesting stuff, saw a similar article in Wired Magazine.
Totally agree with your points. Personally, I think online shopping has got a lot better, but I only use a few retailers. If I ever encounter an error, or complication I close the browser imediately and move on, never to return…
That was a very informative read, thanks.
Ouch! That is not good. I send out coupons all the time, I will definitely take the time frame into consideration. I was always assuming that the email was read that day.
Thanks for this great articles…..
Great 3 ways are defined to Lose an Online Sale.
Saving a shopping cart is a must in todays internet world. Great tips
Great Article, I totally Agree, 3 Ways to Lose an Online Sale.
I am optimizing a site right now that is eCommerce and I'll definitely take this into consideration. Thanks for the post.
Another big problem is FINALLY getting through the checkout and find out, after my order is placed, that the item is out of stock.
While I do think it's lame that they failed to mention an expiration date in the e-mail, that was probably a tactic intended to get you to the point where your cart was full and you were ready to just go through with the sale anyway. You have to remember that most people, even in this economy, aren't as stubborn as you. When they are already at the point where they're just one click away from making the purchase, I think chances are most people will just go ahead and do it anyway, since they're already pretty much committed to buying the items at that point.
Great article, thanks – Keep up the good work.
You've got a point Brendan, I will keep this in mind not to disappoint my customers to what I think would generate more sales.
I'm planning to open a shoes online.
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Sen. Boxer, Cong. Shuster to receive joint 2014 AAPA 'Port Person of the Year' awards
Following the 412-4 vote in the U.S. House on Tuesday and the 91-7 vote in the U.S. Senate today, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) is trumpeting full Congressional approval of the long-awaited and critically-needed water resources development legislation known as H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, or simply WRRDA.
Kurt Nagle, AAPA's president and CEO, applauded U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and David Vitter (R-LA), chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, for their bipartisan leadership in advancing the water resources bill through the Senate.
At its annual Spring Conference in March, AAPA bestowed jointly on Sen. Boxer and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) its "Port Person of the Year" award, although both postponed accepting their awards until after Congress passed the final water resources bill.
"Now these two highly respected congressional committee leaders can accept the awards that are very much their due," said Mr. Nagle.
Many of AAPA's recommended policy priorities are addressed in the WRRDA legislation that will become law after President Obama signs it. A number of provisions are intended to streamline project study and delivery processes and allow more flexibility to ports that want to provide funding to advance navigation-related studies and projects. The legislation also modernizes cost-share requirements, sets a path for full use of the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) and provides more equity for HMT donors.
"This legislation benefits every single American because it will help produce a more efficient maritime infrastructure that strengthens our position as a global trade leader, which will, in turn, boost America's economy, create good jobs and aid in protecting our environment," said Mr. Nagle. "AAPA thanks the bipartisan leadership in Congress and urges swift enactment by the President."
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You'd have to be pretty humourless not to quirk a smile at Dwight Duncan's sly dig at Andrea Horwath in the legislature the other day.
The leader of the New Democrats and MPP for Hamilton Centre had just called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to direct the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to stop meeting with city officials until Hamiltonians hold a referendum to decide whether they want a casino.
McGuinty hiked the ball to Duncan, the minister of finance, who blandly responded that casinos won't be foisted on any municipality where they're not welcome.
When Horwath pressed that the OLG is squeezing communities to make speedy decisions and that a referendum is the best way forward, Duncan said he had great confidence in local decision-making.
Then he pointed out it was a New Democrat government that bought casino gambling to Ontario in the first place, that his own riding of Windsor was the first host city, and that the NDP did not demand a provincial referendum at the time, though his city did make it a ballot question.
Duncan's right, of course: NDP fingerprints are all over government-sanctioned gambling and so they must bear some of the responsibility — or credit, depending on your view — for its proliferation, social acceptance and impacts.
In 1994, a year after Bob Rae's government introduced casino legislation, an interim casino, pending the building of permanent facility, opened in downtown Windsor.
It was also the NDP that launched the first instant-win lottery tickets, the first sports lottery tickets, and Instant Keno, a scratch-and-win game.
But if Duncan cares to do a little extra time travel, the OLG record clearly shows the NDP's fingers were no more sticky than other parties' in the pursuit of gambling revenue.
Here are some of the highlights, or, again, depending on your point of view, the low points:
The Conservatives started it all in 1975 with the Wintario lottery, featuring those retrospectively quaint live broadcasts with host Fred Davis.
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What the Conservatives and NDP started, the Liberals perfected — bigger lottery jackpots, new games, larger casino resorts, more gaming sites, expanded slots.
The OLG now funnels almost $2 billion a year into the provincial coffers. About $1.8 billion of that goes to health care and other government priorities, $120 million goes to the Trillium Foundation for dispersal to charities and not-for-profit organizations, $40 million is spent on problem gambling and $10 million is distributed to amateur sports.
The Liberals, however, are worried the mine may peter out. They think by retooling operations, expanding the role of the private sector and making the industry more flexible, they can extract another $1.3 billion a year in revenue.
Duncan's little poke notwithstanding, obviously the NDP position on gambling has evolved. They want to slow things down to give communities more time to consider the potential consequences of being a part of all this. By contrast, the Liberals want to quickly get on with the next stage of the gold rush.
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