Showing posts with label bargain hunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bargain hunting. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Stationery Pal: Chinese Stationery for Less, Until You See the Shipping Costs

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Stationery Pal is a stationery store based in New Territories, which is next to Hong Kong, but not quite in China yet (that's Shenzhen)....
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Fountain Pen Esoterica: Used Vintage Pen Update

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Back on June 8th, I mentioned that I had placed an order for a used Sheaffer fountain pen on Mercari.  It never came. I was forced to cancel...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Fountain Pen Esoterica: bargain hunting cheap pens and used vintage pens

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The problem with fountain pens and related items is they tend to... multiply,, as you end up buying more and more of them even though you do...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Not So Crap Stuff from China: Generic "F9" True Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds with Charging case (and acts as battery bank for other stuff)

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This is only Bluetooth 5.0, so it's being sold as low as $4.99... with free shipping by Amazon via their outlet, Woot.com. They sold out...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Argh, food poisoning sucks

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 Not quite sure how it happened, but I got food poisoning after getting out of the hospital on Tuesday. I suspect it's on Friday, when I...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Crap I Ordered From China; i.e. Bargain Hunting Stationery and Fountain Pen Stuff

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 My Aliexpress order is finally here... Only took them 8 days.  Anyway, adding another fountain pen and and 2 bottles of ink to my collectio...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Wish.com stuff that's hilariously good... or hilariously bad (and a tip)

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You've seen Wish.com... where they advertise some RIDICULOUSLY low prices for stuff that are either knock-offs or somewhat mis-represent...