This better be the last time

B&NGoddess · #1 03-10-2008, 04:28 PM

i dont know if the store can handle a fourth brett favre issue. sportsman of the year: sold out of 300 copies in 20 minutes. after the seattle game: sold out of 500 copies in 15 minutes. retirement issue: sold out of 600 copies in 30 minutes, and people didnt even know we had em. we got those on saturday so it was a surprise and then of course the news broke on all the local channels that we had gotten some in. yesterday was terrible.

"do you have the--"
"no."
"can i res--"
"no."
"when are--"
"between 9 and noon."
"is there a--"
"no."

i personally took about 30 calls like that. and then we've got people accusing us of a) price gouging (its 7.99 everywhere, asshole.) or b) hiding them.

like my manager said: he poops and farts like the rest of us.

rerant · #2 03-10-2008, 11:04 PM

$7.99 and they're complaining?
Send the complainers over to Canada where books are far higher.
Had I not got the books I recently bought on sale I would have spent over $150. On four books.
Pfft. $7.99. Spoiled brats.

crazylegs · #3 03-10-2008, 11:09 PM

Ummm, whats so special about these books?

rerant · #4 03-10-2008, 11:11 PM

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Quoth crazylegs

Ummm, whats so special about these books?

Didn't you know? Any Brett Favre related merchandise is now a rare and valuable collectors item.

crazylegs · #5 03-10-2008, 11:13 PM

Who now?

This particular trend has yet to cross the pond...

AdminAssistant · #6 03-10-2008, 11:31 PM

He's some football guy. Apparently he broke a lot of records, has magical powers, cured cancer, and saved the world from an alien invasion. He retired kind of suddenly and everybody freaked out.

I don't know though...I think football's a silly sport.

Irving Patrick Freleigh · #7 03-10-2008, 11:38 PM

My store put a limit of 6 copies per person on those magazines.

Naturally this is causing people to complain. "I can only buy 6? The grocery store across the street didn't have a limit on theirs!"

Yeah, and they sold out in one day. You gonna buy any or not?

marty · #8 03-11-2008, 02:16 AM

If they paid teachers and retail workers and manuel laborers and food service workers and other people that deserve the money a lot more as much as they pay professional sports players (who, in my opnion, DON'T deserve that much money), I'd shit myself dead. Okay, okay, I'll stop that rant right there.

It's Nascar stuff in my hometown that people go nuts over, especially since Dale Earnhardt was born in the area or something like that (next town over, they have the statue of him up.) If it's not one thing people are losing their minds over, it's another.

blas · #9 03-11-2008, 02:24 AM

Pretty much every local channel on Thursday morning at 11:30 was featuring Brett Favre and his interview. It's pathetic.

Everyone on Facebook was joining or creating groups dedicated to him or begging him to stay.

I must say, he's a positive influence on young men and probably one of the only good sportsmen in the NFL (considering most athletes these days are arrogant and do many illegal things outside of work)...but still.....idol worship is one of the devil's play things.

rerant · #10 03-11-2008, 02:26 AM

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Quoth marty

If they paid teachers and retail workers and manuel laborers and food service workers and other people that deserve the money a lot more as much as they pay professional sports players (who, in my opnion, DON'T deserve that much money), I'd shit myself dead. Okay, okay, I'll stop that rant right there.

Ugh I SO agree.
Or how about paying the people who save lives even HALF what someone with Bret Favre's salary is? I need to be a professional athlete. I can sit on a bench all year, not do a damn thing, and still bank a million.

Athletes don't deserve a fraction of what they make. It's a game. A sport. Something children do to pass time and enjoy fresh air.

But hey, at least golfers have to actually do well to earn their millions.