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...designs inspired by ancient artifacts rich in symbolic meaning. "Nobody leaves without a lecture," laughs Yunque while describing the ornamentation and beadwork process. If she's too busy for a lecture, she provides history cards with a purchase. These diminutive works of wearable art have become must-haves among shoppers seeking items of intellectual and emotional value. You will also find items inspired by Yunque's fascination with functionality, such as brooch pins designed to hold reading glasses and 1840's style Victorian spine bookmarks ($28-$38). Many items are graced with uncommon and richly colored European beads, adding texture...
This is a scary time of year to check the mail. The holiday gift-giving season, during which the average American shopper this year will spend a total of $1,161 on presents for an average of 15 people, really showcases my family's talent for transforming innocent commodity items into emotion-laden symbols of how we truly feel about one another. Or not. Since there are only two people in the world I know well enough to guess what they would really like (one of them is me), I wasn't surprised to learn of a recent study that...
...bidding wars. Some sellers at first erected barriers to prevent these price-foraging bots from getting any information. Not a shrewd move, as online customers simply passed those sellers by. Others outsmarted the bots by listing a very low price and then, as the order was made, zapping the shopper with stiff shipping costs...
Ghosts of Christmases past haunt Elton John this week as the secrets of his private spending sprees continue to leak out of his legal imbroglio with a former lover. John, of course, is the world's most famous compulsive shopper-he once boasted that he could find a shop in the Sahara desert and has four luxury homes, and all sorts of vintage cars, jewelry, outrageous costumes and clothes. Out of court came the precise figure: John once spent $56.95 million in a 20 month period, more than $468,000 of it on flowers alone. When asked to explain...
...cell-phone shopper who walks into one of the 120 Metrocall stores across the U.S. these days should be ready for a shock. The clerk, instead of delivering a hard sell, will whip out a one-page health-and-safety bulletin that warns of the possible dangers of using a cell phone. The leaflet cautions parents who want phones for their children to consider pagers instead, to avoid exposing the youngsters to any risks. "We try not to take sides in the argument about cell-phone safety," says Mike Scanlon, Metrocall's senior vice president for marketing. "But at least...