GBA Presents: House of Gummy-!

[vanzandt]

Stoney liked it at $2, I was only following it because of him. He mentioned health problems last week, do you know how he is doing?

He post last night, probably just taking the day off. I'm sure he's fine.

 

[vanzandt]

I beat Jimbo on the OLLY upgrade!!! If we have a down day tomorrow and get a discount...
The Option King may make an appearance.

STAY TUNED-

Hey Stoney.. fwiw btw, I graced an Olli's. Why? For fun, and of course for my never ending and thankless devotion to GBA research. (It was there so I thought why not, in the spirit of Peter Lynch.)

Cool store. I walked out with $120 of stuff that I didn't walk in intending to buy. Prices are cheap... but it's like a scavenger hunt in there lol. I mean you'll find coffee creamer in the hardware aisle... next to the Armour-All and between the pliers and the weed-eater attachments. But it's cool. And cheap.

>>>THE ONE THING HOWEVER<<<

And who knows if whatever software their corporate IT marketing guru's buy scans websites like this for remarks about customer experience... but a big chunk of that $120 I dropped was on books. And I mean man... if you ever want a cool coffee table book on any subject... and I am talking a QUALITY book... like a hardcover with thick glossy pages that weighs more than it should... this is the place to go. And a gillion other books. All dirt cheap. Like an (originally priced) $65 book on post-war Japanese home architecture for $5.99. I kid you not.

The ONE THING... and read this OLLI web scraping bots if you exist... it's hard to buy a book like this... or anything else in your store... for a gift at least.... when you stick these obnoxious orange price-tags on the dust-cover.

"But Van... you can peel those off."

No! Guess again...

I friggin' tried. I even tried Dawn dish soap and then WD-40. I mean yeah, if you want to spend 10 minutes hiding the fact that you bought your loser inlaws an expensive gift for $0.05 on the dollar... by all means, have at it.---> But OLLI's--- I realize your business model and the current retail shrinkage environment requires stuff like this... and I'm not sure I have a solution... but a bright orange sticker on a book's dust-cover that originally cost $55 and you are selling for $5... that is impossible to remove... ? Whatever.

 

[newbie463]

Hey Vz, did you try “goo gone”. Works great on those annoying Ross stickers.

Not sure about orange stickers tho. I will say this tho, “NOTHING sucks like a big ORANGE!”

 

[vanzandt]

Hey Vz, did you try “goo gone”. Works great on those annoying Ross stickers.

Not sure about orange stickers tho. I will say this tho, “NOTHING sucks like a big ORANGE!”

Goo-B-Gone. I forgot about that, and I think somewhere we have a can of that stuff, I remember seeing it somewhere. Too late for Xmas, but I bought a couple books for me that I can try it on. Good thinkin'.

 

[stonedinvestor]

Look who's home. Did you see my poem? I complimented you on the last line.

Do you know the page I'm searching under " poem " and can't find it.

I was an English major and a bit of a poet myself and I have two famous poets in my family tree
one borrowed, so don't be alarmed if I make suggestions or comments...

 

[stonedinvestor]

GOOOOOOD MORNING YEAR23 ERS!!!!!!!!!!!

Janney starts LanzaTech with a Buy rating, $10 fair value estimate » 07:55 LNZA

ViaSat awarded up to $900M from U.S. Air Force » 08:01 VSAT

Rivian Automotive designated as a Best Idea for 2024 at Baird » 07:14 RIVN

 

[stonedinvestor]

GO GET EM' HG

Hedge fund HG Vora seeks seats on Penn Entertainment board, WSJ reports » 07:06 PENN

Ault's RiskOn International to announce generative AI platform in January » 06:33 AULT

Unifi director Ken Langone buys $2.88M in common stock » 16:08 UFI

GUMMY-! wait till 10:30>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


UFI Unifi, Inc.

$6.17-0.01(-0.16%)3:59 PM 12/27/23
NYSE |$USD |Pre-Market:$6.72+0.55(+8.91%)8:20 AM

 

[stonedinvestor]

I think the ship has sailed here I messed up. // I was watching some sport on TV and low and behold the first ALLY ad I have ever seen. A sign of mature growth and spending.

Ally Financial upgraded to Buy at CFRA on reduced competition, brighter outlook
ALLY+0.49%

 

[stonedinvestor]

Don't get me started on MASI I was a whisker away from selling. Then boom Apple appeals.. that was I think a known factor why wouldn't they appeal-- the shock may of been the allowing of Apple to continue sales now-- I think the judge will tell them to settle.

But I got smacked yesterday

 

[stonedinvestor]

I want to explore the idea of TIPS.

I think that's what they are called inflation protected yada yada... I saw this Asian dude on Bloomberg last night make the case for Treasury protected inflation TIPS and it did make sense.

Plus I know big Pete has been selling these to his clients down in Fla/

If Inflation stays elevated for the year and we have a market / election turn down would this not be a completely safe idea? I'm still understanding it but 2% above inflation is that what you get? Or 2%? It does appear to be risk free.