Watch
I’ve needed a good watch for a long time. It seems that I have never needed it quite badly enough to actually go buy one, but now I’m at the point where my entire life is driven by scheduling. When does class start, when does it end, am I late for a meeting, blah blah blah.
Of course, I don’t like to buy anything without doing some research, so of course I am doing some window-shopping right now. Last night I got onto amazon.com to look at their watch section, and that was a pretty interesting experience, let me tell you.
Normally when you are looking to get a decent quality item on a website with a huge selection, you might think to sort the items by price, so that you can see all the items in your price-range. Of course, you have to choose whether to go “high to low” or “low to high,” depending on what it is you are looking at, and whether there will be a lot of cheapo stuff, or whether most things are going to be out of your price range.
So what do I know about watches?! I think, “Yeah, there are a lot of these little nine dollar watches, and I don’t want to wade through all that stuff. So I set the result order to be highest prices first. And bang, up comes the first page of watches, all in the $30,000 to $200,000 range. I am not making this up.
Check out this fine timepiece, weighing in at only $180,000. At 25% off, it’s practically a steal! Get one while prices last! (Actually, if you want a real hoot, check out the customer reviews on this watch. They are just too funny.)
So, anyway, I decided to just page forward until I would get to watches in my price range. “Certainly I’ll get to reasonably priced watches pretty quickly…” BZZT, wrong. I went through one hundred pages, and I still hadn’t gotten to watches under $1,000. That is just nuts. Yeah yeah, you might be asking why I went through so many before giving up; well, I just didn’t believe it! This whole concept just blew my mind.
Clearly I need to rethink my window-shopping strategy.