olivia 3months and other lately events
we sell it at a loss
It has always been very puzzling to me when you ask for a bargain price in a store and get a reply "can't do, we are selling it at a loss already..." I'm neither mathematician or economist, but I just can't figure out how those stores make their business. The only option beside me being cheated, is that there are other ways of making money in selling stuff - besides making it in selling them - that I don't know about.
however, this time I nearly feel like cheater myself.
I ordered a UV protection filter to my camera from where I found it cheapest, this time amazon.com US. The first glance on the prices in Finland shows that they seem to ask from 30 to 70 euros, but amazon sold it for about 9EUROS AND FREE SHIPPING!
It took two weeks to come me, and I kept my eye on it's voyage at amazon site. This little piece of class got itself picked from the shelf at a photo store in brooklyn NY, popped shortly in Newark NJ on it's way to Memphis TN where it hopped into plane to fly via Paris to Vantaa Finland. From there it went through the customs in two different cities in Finland, and yesterday, a guy from Fedex delivered directly to my door.
Besides the fedex guy who got paid for ringing my bell, there have been real human being working at every stop the thing popped at. The store itself had to work to handle the order, pack it at set it on the flight, and they have paid for someone to have the item on the shelf to start with.
I'm so puzzled that I feel that I got the thing itself for free, and paid a ridiculous 9euros to have my stuff on an around-the-world-tour.
I just wish all the stores would know the secret business' of the Ace Photo and Digital and we'd all end up paying nothing for everything.
Bible in the cell
I just installed BIBLE+ with finnish 33/38 on my nokia cell phone, and it seems to run nicely.
the requirements for running it are a phones with symbian 60 (perhaps etc) and some memory. I installed it on memorycard not to lose space from calendar etc.
It's completely free and the software can be found here. You can find many translations here, but the first glance tells me that all the copyrighted like NASB, NIV, TNIV (or whatever it was) are missing, likewise the recent finnish -92. But some worthwhile translations are available, like not-too-old Greek NA26/27 and UBS3. (if I recall correctly, they should be quite lately, although not quite the latest.) There are other ancient languages like hebrew etc that I know nothing of, but could think of being interesting to some.
The finnish bible 33/38, second latest in the "official" lineup can be found here.
Enjoy it if you can, and join me in amazement that they can squeeze the tightly written 1500 pages into on tiny cell phone in my pocket.
Joonatan and Benjamin noticed that she pays attention to colourful toys, but couldn't figure out wich one she likes the most... so they gave her them all.
