Since Pip is also interested, let’s see what the urbane, sophisticated, smoking jacket-wearing, martini-sipping Jabootuite bought through this site in September:
First, thanks to whoever bought the Most Expensive Item of the Month, in this case, a Panasonic TY-LA1000 REPLACEMENT LAMP that went for more than three bills. Meanwhile, I actually got a bigger hunk (I can’t figure out Amazon’s varying percentage scheme) of the Black & Decker 18-Volt Cordless Electric Lawncare Center #CCC3000. In any case, those two items kicked nearly $25 my way, and thus basically paid for my bandwidth costs that months. Thanks! After that, it was all cocaine and hooker money.
Some gardening enthusiast bought a mess of flower seeds. Between those and the bodies that are no doubt burying under the top soil, I’m sure the garden is looking sweet.
Other happily off-topic items included a Norpro Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher and, from the automotive department, a Wolo X-2015 Xtreme Red Universal Horn. Beep beep. Somebody also kindly bought a $50 gift certificate, and I got a $3 piece of that action.
Video game buys included copies of Lego Batman (neat!) and Left for Dead.
Music purchases included albums by the ever popular Rush, Black Sabbath (dude!), Over the Rhine and Coldplay.
Books sales as usual heavily favored non-fiction historical books, with an emphasis on military history. These included the best selling A Sea without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region (oddly, only one copy of that); Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal; BATTLES ON THE TIGRIS: The Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War, In the Shadow of the Battleship: Considering the Cruisers of World War II; and a copy of The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. The only book that sold that I actually suggested was a single copy of The Creepy Archives (whoever–how does it look?), although twenty odd–very odd (hahahahahahaha!) people clicked on the link.
We sold many DVDs, but no multiple copies of anything, making this a rare month when everything bought was singular in nature. Classic movies purchased included Citizen Kane; Sunset Boulevard; Help! (sorta classic); Popeye the Sailor Vol. 2; the third volume of the quite nifty new chronological Three Stooges collection, and Touch of Evil. TV discs/sets include the Doctor Who episode The Five Doctors, and The Prisoner Megaset (nice).
Genre films, the heart of the matter, include Planeta Bur (as reviewed here), The Bela Lugosi Collection, The Skull, The Icons of Horror Hammer Collection, Pumpkinhead (nice), Chuck Norris’ An Eye for an Eye, For Your Height Only/Challenge of the Tiger (great disc), Drive in Double Feature: Barracuda/Island Fury, Big Meat Eater (as featured at this year’s T-Fest), Over Sexed Rugsuckers from Mars (!), Prehistoric Park (where do they get their ideas?), Rodan/War of the Gargantuas (only one sale…really?), Star Trek Movie Set, and finally an import copy of Vampire Circus. Oh, and yes, of course we sold a copy of Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders (Broadway Theatre Archive).
For the record, I made a very pleasing $65 that month. Not a record, but a goodly amount.
