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 SPECIAL        MOMENTS

 

A 12-YEAR OLD BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL COMES INTO OUR BOOTH  and asks "Have you seen a lady wearing a Super-Heinz T-shirt."  I looked up at her. I just could not resist this one.

 

 "No, but you had better Ketch-Up with her." Didn't get it.

 

 

WEB SHOPPER

 

 SHOE-BRELLA'S. 

The perfect thing to keep your fancy, expensive, cheap shoes dry (sort of)...  only $129.95


ASIAN NOODLE COOLER

Great for Cup-O-Noodles, Pancit, Cup-OSoup, etc.  Priced at only $44.95 or buy the Family Pak 12 for $395.00


FOR THE
SLOW TIMES!

 

Hadouken! Shoryuken!

Carry the king of fighting games in your pocket with the Street Fighter Action Keychains. These delightful Japanese imported mini joysticks perfectly replicate the Street Fighter controls from the arcade.

That might be enough to keep us entertained, but amazingly these keychains also re-create the special attack sounds of each character  click here to read more

 


Snaglo where Shopping has never been more exciting
Beezid Penny Auctions

DON'T GET HOOKED ON PENNY AUCTIONS

You could lose a lot of money on the one of the latest gimmicks to hit the Internet.  Been watching TV these past few days and saw ads for two 'penny auctions.' Beezid.com and snaglo.com

These are auctions where you can 'win' items dirt cheap. Stay away from these. You can lose a lot of money buying bids. On these sites you buy bids for something between .40 and .80 and place your bids for the items that you want.

2010 Mustang GT

For instance. the IPAD retails for $899 (on one of the sites) and I have seen a winning bid of around $27.00. Bids are incremented by .01 every time a bid is placed. So that means that 2700 bids were placed at a cost of around .60 +or- each. The auction site has made $1620 for the item which normally sells for $899. Just an example. Their profit margins are much higher on many items.

There are perhaps dozens of people making bids at the same time and quite often, there are schills or company employees bidding the items up.  However, there are indeed people out there getting fantastic prices on these auctions and they will all claim how great it is.  How about those that buy hundreds upon hundreds of dollars in bids and win nothing.


please click here to read more on penny auctions




   Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival 
   

April 24-25, 2010.   Event was held at Memorial Park in Cupertino.  One of the nicest settings for an event you could find.  However, the dynamics of this show have changed over the year's due to the declining economy and a large number of vendor's have disappeared.    Please read my review.

DOG DAYZ
  SNIFFING DOGS were numerous throughout the day as they would run up to one another and...well, you know.  But I didn't see any large dogs.  They were all under a foot tall.... and some of them dressed up like they were going to be in an Easter parade.  Or, maybe they marched in the parade during the morning.  I'm wondering how come there weren't any larger dogs. Where are they? 

Seriously, I saw maybe 20 dogs today and they were all little pooches.  Where did the big ones go?  I know the economy is bad, butt.......  Or maybe they all took their dogs to the Good Guys Car Show in Pleasanton this weekend to keep them company while they sit around for three days in back of their cars.  Hey Bowser, why don't you run over there and pick me up some ribs.  I'll give you the bones.  Hey Ralph, anybody touches ma cah. chase them away.  Sick em, Frazier. There are some shows that people just love to show off their dogs...like in Foster City. Winchester Bay (OR), etc.  Or maybe they have the Doggy Olympics someplace?

                STARVING VENDORS
             MONTHLY FOOD DRIVE
  Please participate in our monthly food drive.  Bring your cans, boxes, toilet tissue, TV's, IPod's, etc. to our Monthly Food Drive held at various locations throughout the Western States
 

On the 15th of every month, you may bring used clothing and food to the Beverly Walshare hotel lobby located in the big heart of Beverly Hells.  Please leave your TV's, IPods, computers, etc. at the big white truck alongside the curb.

You may also leave your goods off at many of our participating stores along Rodero Drive in Beverly Hells.
Cash Donations are also accepted and are tax-deductible.  The food that you donate is deeply appreciated as there are thousands of starving vendors out there.  Sales have been very slow and we need all the help you can give us.  IPod's would be of great use to us, as we can listen to music during the many slow hours at our festivals.