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  1. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^ There are better and worse examples of styles from every era, but in the case of my early adulthood years, the early- to mid-1970s, there was markedly more bad than good. I didn’t find the “hippie” look itself so objectionable, and I adopted it myself to a significant degree. But...
  2. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^ I occasionally field questions from customers asking what hat I’d recommend they wear to a job interview. I typically respond “none at all,” unless the job is in entertainment or the arts or maybe advertising. You want the interviewer to remember what you said, I tell them, not that you...
  3. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    When does an affinity for a bygone style become cosplaying? I do believe that in many cases a Venn diagram showing “Eyes of the Beholder” and “Intent of the Person so Attired” would show a whole lotta overlap. And conversely? I often wear a goatskin A2 jacket and rarely leave home without a...
  4. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^ It could be that Black Friday has had its moment, too. And just about every day is “Cyber Monday” these days. A nephew in the car selling business tells me that consumers have gotten hip to “sales” associated with holidays such that traffic through the doors on such days isn’t...
  5. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    Part of what keeps this place going is the multiple sub-forums. There are some I visit regularly, some infrequently, and some not at all. If the Fedora Lounge limited itself exclusively to 1930s and ’40s material goods it would be signing its own death warrant. Or so I would think. As I’ve...
  7. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^ And then there are the Golden Era enthusiasts who once participated here who aren’t participating in anything anymore, what with that ultimate fact of life and all. I know of a few who have shuffled off over the 18-plus years I’ve been here, and a few others I suspect have joined them...
  8. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    Pure speculation on my part, so with that in mind … Might it be that stuff of “Golden Era” vintage has had its moment? Even among this bunch, it seems I see more and more references to artifacts of much more recent vintage. All sorts of stuff from the 1960s and ’70s and later (into the 1990s...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was reminded of this a few minutes ago while reading of the fellow (whose name I shall not mention) who killed three and injured a fourth yesterday at UNLV. It seems he sought a teaching position at the school in 2020. He didn’t get the job. His public online profiles boast of his academic...
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    You know you are getting old when:

  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s hard to find a late-model car without power windows. Buyers have come to expect it, such that they’d likely find it somehow wrong if a car didn’t have ’em. As I recall, the most recent automobile I rode in that didn’t have power windows was a friend’s bottom-of-the-line Kia, and that was...
  13. tonyb

    Vintage radio in pristine condition

    You may wish to message our friend decojoe67.
  14. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    And … A shipment from Portugal was quarantined by US Fish & Wildlife for a few weeks. I can’t recall which vendor the shipper used, but I’m left to conclude that because the goods were of animal origin, the concern was for whatever other life forms might be tagging along. When I worked in...
  15. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    ^^^^^^ At this point I’ve shipped several hundred parcels, both domestic and foreign, via the United States Postal Service. They have yet to lose one. My regular suppliers typically ship by UPS. Same thing.
  16. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    ^^^^^^ I had ordered groceries online a few times during the early stages of the pandemic. While grocery shopping remains not among my favorite activities, I prefer it to the alternatives available to me, a person of modest means. I wish to see the perishable foods before I buy them. For that...
  17. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    As to the availability of stuff on Amazon … A friend who doesn’t buy stuff online isn’t a Luddite so much as she’s unreasonably risk averse. She fears her meager accounts will be drained should she enter a card number with an online retailer. She is a two-time cancer survivor and is very...
  19. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    ^^^^^^ Pandemic restrictions certainly sped things along.
  20. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    ^^^^^^^^ Many years ago, when online commerce was still something of a novelty, Malcolm Gladwell had a piece in The New Yorker titled “Clicks and Mortar.” He opened with an account of a device dating from about a century prior called the King Road Drag, a simple implement that made for easier...
  21. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    Say what you will about Amazon, there’s no denying they have forced others to either up their game or get out of the business altogether.
  22. tonyb

    General myths and "urban legends" on product quality

    ^^^^^^ I had worked in the shipping business (they often call it “logistics” these days) and can confirm much of the above. So much of the ”final mile” stuff is handled by contractors, and subcontractors, and sub-subcontractors, and maybe even sub-sub-subcontractors. Some of those in the latter...
  23. tonyb

    Your favorite movie quotes

    “Senator, you can have my answer now if you like. ”My offer is this: Nothing, not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.”

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