The Sale Blog

Regular listeners to Chris Smith’s afternoon show on 2GB will know of the Bargain Shoppers’ Guide on Thursday afternoons with Jebby Phillips. She mentions at the end of her segment that there is a blog that sums up the bargains from the broadcast, plus more that there isn’t enough time to talk about. Check out the blog here, and thanks to the show this afternoon, I know where I’m going on Saturday morning (that is, if the products being sold aren’t already gone by the time I get there around 11am).

ONE DAY CHOCOLATE SALE: Does the name Lindt mean anything? Of course, great chocolates. On Saturday they are having a warehouse sale that will save you 50-70% off rrp on all sorts of tasty treats. Personal shoppers only, no bulk sales and a $250 limit per customer. But everything is while stocks last. The warehouse is in the old Wonderland theme park.

CCL (Lindt) Warehouse, 2 Alspec Pl, Eastern Creek. Sat May 31, 8-4.

Promo video for “Burn Your Plastic Jesus”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxMCNcpLmgM

Good little vid to use in your church services, I reckon – having heard Al Stewart many times, I would emphatically say that he would be just as effective at bringing across the message that Driscoll will give as Driscoll himself. With less hair, of course, but that ain’t what matters.

(h/t Steve)

FuelBotch?

All this to-ing and fro-ing about what the proposed FuelWatch system will do to petrol prices in the face of spiralling oil prices is just stupid. It’s come so far as to find Brendan Nelson moving a censure motion against Kevin Rudd because he will not guarantee that prices will not increase with this initiative (see New Limited story here).

I don’t see the point of such a system myself. Motorists have enough independently run sources with which to find the cheapest petrol (such as Motormouth, which I’ve talked about before), and based on the fact that these initiatives are being held off until the end of the year, it just seems a useless proposition unless acted upon now. Forcing service stations to fix their prices daily isn’t really going to be all that different from what we see now, I would think – so if anything I suggest that FuelWatch will be one of those vaguely peripheral policies that doesn’t really do much more than keep a casual eye on things and perhaps intervene if things go too out of hand.