Holiday Hoarders Rake It In Online

Thanks To The Internet, A New Breed Of Retailers Is Thriving. Meet The E-Tailers

(CBS)  Karen Liu may not look like a business mogul, but on the Internet, she’s gamediva.com, CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason reports.

Game Diva is run out of Liu’s Long Island, N.Y., home. In her basement and garage she stocks 200,000 games and toys. The holiday season is critical to her $500,000-a-year business. And this year she’s betting big on the new Super Mario Brothers game.

“I've bought twenty boxes,” Liu said. “And each box has 12 games in it.”

On eBay alone, there are now more than a million e-tailers, like Karen. Many are hoping to cash in on the must-have gift.

“They're realizing that they can go to a store and try to predict what's gonna be hot, buy a ton of them and they can make money,” said Cat Schwartz, of eBay.

Jennifer Canty has used just that model to build a $10 million a year business: dyscern.com.

“We've pretty much doubled our sales every year,” Canty said.

From stores and manufacturers, she buys returned or overstocked electronics, like iPods, Blackberries and digital cameras, refurbishes them in her Virginia warehouse and then sells them online.

“We do have are great deals on those specific products that we brought in,” she said.

Like the rarely discounted 8-gigabyte ipod nano. It’s one of her Web site’s featured deals this season, which accounts for 35 percent of her business.

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Price and convenience are the main incentives luring people to the Web. More than 20 percent of shoppers say they plan to do all of their holiday buying online this year -- that's more than ever.

That’s why Internet sales are expected to jump more than 20 percent this season to $33 billion. Rising gas prices and slumping home values may have the malls worried. But not the Game Diva.

Karen Liu can barely keep up with the shipping, because the shoppers keep coming -- to the Web.

[truthprophet]

TO APATHETIC AMERICANS
Voter disenfranchisement and apathy infects the heart of our Republic. Get off your couch, put your remote control down, and become active in your nation''s political process. The pathetically few people that do vote in this country, a.k.a., "the ruling class", who currently get to decide under what kind of conditions (and Laws) you and your family will live, are certainly involved. I can assure you of that. In fact, the ruling class would be much happier if you would just continue to stay home and watch TV in your pleasantly distracted and brainwashed, stupor. That way they can continue to elect their political ****** to office, and continue to maintain their grip on 100% of the political power they currently own in this country. If you voted (God Forbid), it would cancel-out their vote, and they would lose control. They can''t have that. Now can they? If you don''t vote, my friends, you''re nothing but an unwashed "Pleb" to those that do, and the ruling class should rightfully consider themselves superior to you in every way. They do, after all, have all the power, while you have none. If you''re too apathetic and powerless to do anything for yourself more time-consuming than driving down to Mickey D''s to buy a milk shake in order to sieze control of your life, and your country''s destiny, then perhaps you deserve to be ruled over like the "Pleb" that you then are. The time to act is now. The time for political revolution has come. The time for Ron Paul is NOW!

[greatprophet]

RON PAUL IS THE TAXPAYER''S BEST FRIEND
If he is elected President, Ron Paul will work to abolish the Federal Reserve System as well as the IRS, returning our country to the Gold Standard. He believes, as I do, that our current Income Tax System is unconstitutional, because it is a direct tax that is not equally apportioned as The Constitution requires. Whenever taxes are raised by the federal government, it should be done as The Constitution does require--in an indirect way, which is equally apportioned. This system would benefit all of us, creating more individual wealth, and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives. As President, Ron Paul will also work to abolish the Federal Reserve, a group of private banks, run by unelected officials, which loans our government unbacked money which they are allowed to essentially print out of thin air, making each dollar in your pocket worth less all the time, and increasing our national debt to these banks. Worse still. Most of our debt is owned by China (25%) and Saudi Arabia who finance our runaway military spending overseas. This is a threat to our nation. We need to bring our troops home from overseas, and use the trillions we would save thereby to reduce our debt, and to re-invigorate our currency. We can use this money to ensure that Social Security and other essential programs will still be solvent in the future. Vote for Ron Paul. He''s published three books on the topic of sound economics. ronpaullibrary.org

[fairprophet]

RON PAUL TAKES-ON FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee Chairman, Congressman Ron Paul on November 8th, and had to face some tough criticism concerning the fact that the Fed has been increasing the money supply while at the same time refusing to raise the Prime Interest Rate in order to curb inflation and devaluation of the Dollar. Paul accused the Federal Reserve of "robbery," telling Bernanke, "There''s a dollar crisis out there and people''s money is being stolen," Paul said. "People who have saved, they''re being robbed. I mean, if you have a devaluation of the dollar at 10 percent, people have been robbed of 10 percent." Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attempted to dispel that notion by explaining, "If somebody has their wealth in dollars and they''re going to buy consumer goods in dollars, then the only effect it has on their buying power is that it makes imported goods more expensive." Paul disagreed, reminding Bernanke, "Yeah, but not if you''re elderly and you have your wealth in CDs. Their cost of living is going-up no matter what your CPI says," adding finally, "Their cost of living is going up, and they''re hurting. And that''s why the people of this country are very upset."

[truthprophet]

RON PAUL RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY
Like Ron Paul, I believe the biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding a citizens'' personal matters. We must stop the move toward a national ID card system (e.g., The Real ID Act). Under this new Law, states are currently issuing new driver''s licenses embedded with standard identifier data (RFID chips). Although, many states are refusing to comply. A national ID with new tracking technologies means we''re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. Ron Paul was one of the few members of Congess who voted against the Real ID Act. Also, under current medical privacy protection rules, which Ron Paul also opposed, insurance companies and other entities have access to your personal medical information. Finally, there''s the so-called Patriot Act, which Congressman, Ron Paul also voted against. As originally proposed, it expanded the federal government''s ability to use wiretaps without judicial oversight; allowed nationwide search warrants non-specific to any given location, nor subject to any local judicial oversight; made it far easier for the government to monitor private Internet usage; authorized sneak and peek warrants enabling federal authorities to search a person''s home, office, or personal property without that person''s knowledge; and required libraries to turn over records of books read by patrons. Ron Paul sponsored a Bill to overturn the Patriot Act.

[greatprophet]

POLLSTERS CAUGHT SKEWING RESULTS
Ron Paul breaks fundraising records, wins phone-in and Internet polls, yet why are his national poll numbers so low? A Zogby pollee recently revealed what happened to him when he took part in their national, 2008 presidential election poll. Upon confirming Ron Paul as his choice for President, the poll then branched out into a myriad of bizarre and intrusive questions which would discourage most people from completing the process, and thereby making their vote for Ron Paul null and void. "The first part of the poll was about which candidate one prefers, with candidates from both parties being available as choices. Great! However, after I finished answering positively for Ron Paul, the poll got very interesting," he writes. "As anyone who is familiar with how polls work is aware, polls are branching in their structure. Answers you give to one section of the poll will determine what questions you will receive in the next section of the poll." The pollee then relates his confusion about the fact that the poll threw up 20 questions about cooking rice before another extensive set of questions regarding personal sexual behavior. "This went on for a number of pages and was rather intrusive," he said. "It dealt with sexual positions, sexual fantasies, sexual preferences and similar intimate subjects. Of course neither rice cooking or sexual behavior have anything to do with presidential elections or politics in general. Or at least it shouldn''t!"

[fairprophet]

RON PAUL WINS BIG IN NATIONAL POLL
The results of a nationwide telephone poll, announced by Zogby on November 19th, reveals that Americans want to vote for a candidate who protects liberty; who wants to shrink government; and who wants to immediately withdraw our troops from Iraq - positions of Congressman Ron Paul. As part of a blind-bio, spread poll, likely voters (from all parties) were provided with descriptions of four different Republican candidates and asked to choose who they would vote for based on each one''s resume and political platform. 33% of pollees chose Ron Paul, 19% chose Rudy Giuliani, 15% chose Mitt Romney and 13% chose Fred Thompson. The results clearly illustrate that the country is crying out for Ron Paul, which is why mainstream media has launched a public relations offensive to marginalize his accomplishments and suppress the Congressman''s name recognition. In a seperate question, over 49% of pollees said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who would begin an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. In fact, Ron Paul won in every demographic of this poll including, but not limited to, religious voters, NASCAR fans, military families, African-Americans, etc..

[truthprophet]

ONLY RON PAUL CAN BEAT CLINTON
Zogby''s Director of Communications Fritz Wenzel said on November 20 that Paul is the strongest of the GOP candidates to run against Clinton. "Among the larger universe of voters," which includes all parties, "yes, Paul would be a much stronger candidate than any of the other three [Romney, Giuliani, Thompson]," Wenzel said. Zogby recently announced that Paul was their winner in a nationwide blind-bio poll which included voters from all parties. "He is anti-war and the majority of Democrats are anti-war, he has some other ideas and policies and stances on issues more attractive to Democrats, particularly conservative Democrats," said Wenzel. "Even among Independents, he is far and away a more attractive candidate," he added. Paul is the only GOP candidate who is not threatening war with Iran, whereas Clinton vowed to keep that option "on the table." Paul also voted against the war in Iraq, which Clinton has supported. Because Democrats outnumber Republicans, none of the other GOP candidates can win against Clinton, because they simply won''t be able to reach across party lines and attract enough Democratic and Independent voters to beat Clinton. Only Paul can do that. "He''s right on schedule," Wenzel said. "He''s making all the right moves, going in the right direction...at a time when other candidates are not moving." Wenzel based his analysis on recent polls that show Paul could win in New Hampshire and that his support nationwide is intensifying.

[likeablunchs]

'' .. math sucks not for mathematicians shoot birds and build airplanes, but answers are not looked up and dialed in as are phone #s .. ''

'' .. happiness is a penny from each of 32 with empty shelves & pockets to purchase from one with full shelves & pockets a loaf sliced 34 ways, at least in some porns happiness is such .. ''

'' .. to use market share to raise armys to make folk pay for lunch is to pay for lunch while enemys raise armys to make folk pay for lunch .. ''

'' .. they were nice, said don''t kill and feed the world, gave me oatmeal oatmeal pies green beens word puzzles, i hung their pictures on my walls, my heart snared to do so, but they betrayed me, as do those obsessed with don''t kill / feed the world, they killed and they taxed the world, i found refuge with their enemys, and more with enemys enemys (also their enemys), for enemys enemys built for them great bouquets in retalition for the hate of their great bouquets given to those that love such bouquets, when my flowers asked why i hung their pictures on my walls, i remembered it was not my hate what drove me so but my love, i found it was not them i loved: they were few cuttings in a endless buffet, and it was the buffets i truly loved, and not the cuttings what had lead me to the buffets, it was not the betrayal i hated, but rather the pictures on my walls that could never be replaced, so eternity asked of me, which came first: eternity or you? .. ''

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likeablunchs is very eloquent in his analysis of current events

[cyberus-2009]

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Posted by lastdance4 at 02:33 AM : Nov 24, 2007

Sad but true, even sadder is if Ron Paul needs supporters to sink to spamming comment/blogs what does that say about him?

[twomtns]

right on lastdance
I guess that "he/she/they" the prophet spammer(s)
are too stupid to relize that when they Pi** people
like me off the chance that they/I woould voye for
Ron Paul is about as good as asnowball in hell
wake up CBS get rid of these a**holes

[prairiefox1]

Posted by lastdance4 at 02:33 AM : Nov 24, 2007

Sad but true, even sadder is if Ron Paul needs supporters to sink to spamming comment/blogs what does that say about him?


I IGNORE ALL THE PROMISES AND I LOOK AT THEIR RECORD!
IF IT IS GOOD THEN THEY HAVE A CHANCE OF GETTING MY VOTE!
RON PAULS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE 0
THIS GUY IS A ROARING JOKE!

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by prairiefox1 at 01:47 PM : Nov 24, 2007

100% agreement with you.

[likeablunchs]

'' .. sick beds swim drift trails like giant buses, folk are on off much, four passengets & one sick each bus, often multiple buses strewn temporarily loosely together, folk board up to 33 buses each per day for twenty minutes each bus to play & forge a product or few for self .. ''

'' .. most folk most time behave; however, had our armys not invested more in wars than all of the worlds combined, & had the wars not raped more babys than all the worlds combined, then most would have mis-behaved; instead, we made the worlds our own private dare house, we chose where to put art classes and science math language classes, where to the gym & fields playgrounds library offices cafeteria labs & parking lots, we were gods no one could rape but ourselfs .. ''

'' .. infinite divergence means theres infinite dragons of infinite shapes sizes in my private & public infinite storyboards, and each dragons has infinite storyboards it''s own .. ''

'' .. kids should get all spankings without fair trials & adults all with fair trials, the world is backward .. ''

'' .. i''ll never forget my first time, it came late, i was way past old enough, when some little girl walked over laid down a sack clothes, i knew the rules, but so nervous caught by surprise that i couldn''t but just sit there, my *** stung for what seemed like half hour but was less than half minute, the rest of the 20 minutes were increasingly pleasant, though increasingly arduous .. ''

[michellem99-2009]

Tool hello Dear Amen..Makes me wanna holler. I will go to the store and buy one gift for my friend and mail out 4 cards. Have done that for years.

[hissteps4u]

Prophet will go slithering back under the rock he came out of after he election cycle is over. Hopeless support of someone who hasno chance in hell of doing anything and who''s record in congress is the same.

Once he see''s the writing on the wall he will like them all slither back int the background or take on a new persona say support for Ted Kennedy perhaps LOL

What a Prophetic bunch of junk

[likeablunchs]

'' ..

i visited 33 sick beds,

at each sick bed was 4 extra folk,

so i saw a 165 folk in the night,

each needed $33.00 to survive,

i needed $33.00 to survive,

i paid them each $0.20,

they each paid me $0.20,

earth gave us infinite peaches,

but we each wanted more

than just peaches,

each wanted 11 other foods

and 11 other homes,

so each invented each''s own,

and some collaborated,

and some shared,

could have made folk pay to see us,

sharing and collaborating,

and swapping double dimes,

but that would have been unfair,

.. ''

[likeablunchs]

'' .. if i''m hurt by the hand of another, i am not hurt by the hand of another, and not by the hand upon my arm, but by my other hand upon my other arm, and the cure is not the smacking of my other hand, but is the journey to one of the infinite numbers of places and times when and where my other hand did not, will not, and does not feel as though to smack me, or one of those times and places where and when i feel like being smacked by my other hand upon my other arm that could be considered the hand of another with equal need and ability to travel places and times as do i .. ''

'' .. the world is full of little girls that rape big men, and there is no winning the war, except to pump more money into man raping wars than all the little enemy girls combined .. ''