After I spit
Hey, I made some impulse purchases on Amazon.com this morning. I can cover it with my recently acquired birthday money.
So yesterday I was listening to this Reel Reviews podcast, and the guy reviewed the 2000 movie
Traffic. Now, I've never seen this movie, but the way that this guy talked it up, it sounded pretty good. So, I looked it up on the internets, and they just came out with a brand-spanking new Criterion Collection DVD of the movie with lots of great special features for the low special price of about $35 from Amazon.
Well, I know what it costs now, but I didn't before.
This morning, while brushing my teeth, I sat down at the computer and fired up Amazon.com to see how much a few things would cost--I was in a very weird mood, I might add. So, I put that Traffic DVD in there (there being my Amazon.com shopping card), and then because I watched the movie
A History of Violence last night, I was kind of hankering to see the graphic novel that was adapted into the movie. So, I looked up that graphic novel, and it was only like ten bucks, and it said "Other people who bought this item also bought the graphic novel
V for Vendetta, which is another movie that I want to go see. So I hit the "Add both of these items to your cart!" button, just to see how much the whole shebang would cost.
The whole shebang was going to be like $56.97. I could get free super saver shipping and have them here in 5-9 business days.
At this point, I was not going to buy these things. My intentions, all along, were never to buy anything this morning.
But.
On the shopping cart page, it said:
Jake, you've been selected for a free 3-month trial of Amazon.com PRIME. With Amazon.com PRIME, you'll receive free 2-day shipping on everything you order, or for $4.99 per item, you can get next day shipping! If you like Amazon.com PRIME, do nothing, and at the end of your 3-month trial, you will be enrolled for 1 year at a cost of $75. It's easy to unenroll at any point in your trial period.And at this point, they had me.
I signed up for the free trial, because the deal was, I didn't even have to order anything right then. I was free to sign up and then MAYBE use it later. Or MAYBE NOT.
So after I signed up, it dumped me back out to my shopping cart, where I could have all those beautiful media items in my hands on Thursday, March 23--for no additional cost. So I clicked "ORDER THAT CRAP", and it'll be here Thursday.
Sweet! Happy birthday to me!
Then I went to work.
After I spit out the toothpaste.
