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I have no idea? http://youtu.be/oo5-74dWGS0
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It is the economic principle of "opportunity cost" and supply/demand. She spends her time colecting the very best looking shells and offers them on the market to those who are more proficient providing other goods or services.
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It is the economic principle of "opportunity cost" and supply/demand. She spends her time colecting the very best looking shells and offers them on the market to those who are more proficient providing other goods or services.
For instance, an interior designer can make more money designing interiors than she can looking for shells and selling them. However, she may need nice shells for some of her designs or merely for decoration. This creates a need for quality seashells in the market. Conversely, "she" may be better at finding and selling shells than any other profession that she has tried. It makes sense for her to continue to sell shells as long as there is a market for them.
It is easy when you "sea" it from an economic perspective :)
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I think it's something akin to "that guy could sell ice to eskimoes".
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I think it's something akin to "that guy could sell ice to eskimoes".
"So, is Sarah a good salesperson?"
"Are you kidding me? She could sell seashells on the seashore, that one."
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She wasn't selling just sea shells, she was selling peace of mind.
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She wasn't selling just sea shells, she was selling peace of mind.
We live in a world where there are so many choices, and whenever you have choice you have to acknowledge a loss. If I pick out one sea shell from the ocean, how do I know that I'm not missing a better sea shell? I don't, because the ocean has, like, a lot of sea shells.
Sally is placing a quantifiable value on the sea shells, which allows people to feel certain that they are choosing the sea shell that is right for them.
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Lower overhead and basically non-existent shipping costs. She was able to offer consumers the most for their sea shell dollar.
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cause Sandy had sand in her vagina and decided to charge everyone for them. Also she was horny and slid her number into every shell she sold.
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Cause we didn't think it through before hand, and sandy's the worst kind of as*hole, which is what I'm pretty sure was causing Sandy to be an as*hole that day.
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I think she probably decorated them. I still don't think I would buy any because anybody who sells seashells adjacent to the sea shore isn't good at arts and crafts.
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We live in a capitalist society where most value making a quick buck above anything, mostly through exploitation. Water from the tap? Free and probably better for you than bottled water with the plastic toxins. But people still spend the money on the bottled stuff. Maybe she had some marketing gimmick. Maybe we are just too lazy to go and look for those sea shells ourselves. Whatever the reason, she was selling them to survive in the society we live in.
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Same reason a fisherman sells fish down by the harbor. One rarely has the time or the means to do a job to the same level of quality as a person dedicating their career to it. The location of Sally's shop is financially advantageous, and while the location along the seashore might seem arbitrary, she's probably close to a wholesaler who operates nearby.
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Maybe there are a lot of tourists that time of year. Those idiot tourists will buy anything.
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In many recounts, she sells sea shells *by* the seashore, which could be interpreted as a point of origin rather than as the physical location of her retail space.
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Sally was very uncreative and not very creative, unlike her sister, Suzy, who was last seen selling silly sea shell sandwiches in Secaucus.
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You silly so-and-so! She wasnt seriously selling seashells, she was surreptitiously shelling sea snails - sold as snacks to stupefied sailors and sellers of seashells, stowed out of sight astern of the seashells she said she was selling. See?
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