Amusements

[owlmoose]

The world's most expensive tape dispenser.

Thanks to anonamys for the link. A typo must be involved somewhere. But it made me giggle anyway.

Also, this is a GIP. I made the icon yesterday. The doctor is: IN.

Comments

[muggy-mountain.livejournal.com]

Hah, it looks like it's probably not due to a typo --the seller is "TAM test account", the product description is simply "Best tape ever." and their profile page has a complaint from a buyer saying "never received but was billed". Let's hope they didn't want a tape dispenser.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Gratuitous Icon Post

That's it!
Funny, that the tape seller is a test account. And I agree, although anyone who actually tries to order a $50k tape dispenser possibly deserves whatever they get.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I would expect the advertised product.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

So what would you expect of a tape dispenser that was advertised at $50,000.00?

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

Nothing more than was represented by the catalog page. So in this case, a black tape dispenser. I can't expect additional features that aren't listed. I can quibble if the one I receive is grey or putty or rainbow colored, but perhaps not too much because the color wasn't actually listed in the description.

Whether it's worthy of that price is a judgement that each potential purchaser makes. Most will deem it not worthy at that price given the description. But should I decide to make the purchase, I can't expect anything different.

Now, what is problematic about the catalog page is the item description "best tape ever". First, it's not clear from the main entry that the dispenser will come pre-filled (seems to imply "batteries are included", if you will). That issue aside, they don't define what they mean by "best tape ever". I think that's highly subjective. I've never seen tape that could fit such a dispenser that would win in a fight with say duct tape or electrical tape. But I think that would be a case of "buyer beware".

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's magic tape. Not 3M Magic Tape, but tape with some sort of magical properties. Of course, that does assume the "batteries are included" proposition. Or it could be that the dispenser is magic, and imparts its magical properties to ordinary tape.

Of course, again, I am reading more into the product than is in the description simply based on the price. A dangerous assumption indeed.

[luvmoose.livejournal.com]

See, you seem tho think that the advertised price implies something other than what the catalog page represents. Which is not the case. This isn't hypothetical. You can't expect more than they tell you.

Now, it's an entirely different fun exercise to imagine a hypothetical $50,000 tape dispenser. Mine would have a convertible as the chassis. ;)