恩....無名先生/女士再度現身認領他/她的無名留言，

並且貼上新的留言再度證明他/她既非KS，也非Val。



無名同學，感謝你精彩的購物經驗分享，

並且從中分析了Borders和Amazon的股價差異的理由。

最重要的還是讓我們趁此機會練習了英文。



謝謝，並祝耶誕快樂。

Now I totally understand why Borders stock is so low and Amazon's is sky-rocket

high. Borders just cannot compete with Amazon in every aspect except local

presence. I guess their management still lives sometime in the 20th century

without knowing the world has changed so much. They may survive after buying out

B&N, but just barely survive, I guess.



I am wondering the guy who run the hedge fund has ever made any online order from

Borders and Amazon.

Found another hard to find item Mingus recommended at a reasonable price. Tried

to place an order then found out membership did not work and shipping will be

charged. Hey, I paid 20 bucks for membership..... Anyway still placed the order

and planned to argue with them later.



About 18 hours later, I ordered 4 games from Amazon. The 4 games were delivered

30 minutes ago, and my border's order was just ready to leave warehouse this

morning. Sent them an email to complain membership thing yesterday but have not

heard from them. I think they promise to respond in 24 hours.... Amazon has never

responded my emails for over 24 hours, usually less than 12 hours. Amazon once

responded my email in 10 minutes.

Got a Border 40% off coupon last week, so decided to use it for a textbook.

Sadly, it's not available at Borders. So try another one... still not

available...until the 5th book. But it's a hardcover at $120. Sigh! Prefer to

order a paperback from Amazon for half price.



Suddenly had an idea to use it for a big ticket item. Finally found 1 that beat

Amazon's price. Join the reward plus membership and placed an order. Think

everything will be fine.... not really.

實在是多到不知該從何下手，唉，三篇差不多，待我整理沈澱後。有時候太滿寫不出來，等太久又

淡了，難拿捏。

既然是滿載而歸，那就分個三大類，寫個充實的三篇來分享吧。



期待中...

Not me either, but s/he can read my mind :-)



Just had a futile trip to local Borders for some CDs last

week. It's frustrating to see the face of the store clerk

turning into a confused frown after I described what I'm

looking for, and I know it's not because of my accent. Then

I saw your blog about old-fashioned bookstore, which

reminded me the good old time I had at 4th St/Broadway

Tower.



Also enjoy shopping at used records. Being there I'm

shopping for surprises. However, the void left by the

closure of the old-fashioned places like Tower just

couldn't be filled, even with Amazon, when I'm looking for

things beyond surprise.

我還真認錯啦？沒關係，KS，就當我問候你好了。



哈哈謝謝你回覆我。

nope, not me. it could be val (responding

from a place with no access to chinese

window/keyboard?) trying to answer your

question about tower records?



i like the real thing (actual book.) no

urge to get an e-book any time soon. just

as much as i love to go to the stores to

shop for my books, cds and almost everthing

else.



i take online purchase as a last resort.

guess i'm an old-fashioned girl.

To.....應該是KS吧？希望我沒認錯。



如果市場上殘留兩個弱兵的時候，後死的就贏了，許多商場上的遊戲規則未必是正

面表列。所以避險基金從兩個裡面挑一個想要support，可以延長時間一點，也就

活下來了。



網路和實體應該都有好處吧，有時候也只是自己的喜好選擇而已；Amazon和MDT經

常給我很大驚喜，但我還是孜孜不倦地會逛那採購不齊的台灣唱片行。



你電子書買了沒？買哪家的？還是放棄了？

To Mingus,



我沒講清楚。其實是這套曲子我不太來電，而不是Fisher的琴藝有關。



反而Fisher的琴意頗為剛勁有神，伶俐但不凌厲，琴音稍微沉一些。打個比方，可

能有點像你之前提到Sussane Heinrich的古大提琴與南方的琴鋒差異；但是倘若

美女小提琴家一字排開，我便沒辦法比較，基本上我沒買過美女小提琴家的錄音。

你若對此曲不排斥，我覺得可以考慮；至少，她值得一個婦女保障名額。不過我想

你應該有很多CD在waiting list上，那就也不用那麼急。



台南很好啊，我很喜歡台南。可是待的時間不夠長，每次與小吃失之交臂，我恨！

此次出差雖住台南市，但多數時間都在善化鎮，很棒的地方喔。我跟同事都在想揪

團買個透天厝，年紀大了養老可以互相照應，還可以合請外勞跟廚師。



只是我台語爛到谷底，簡直成個啞吧！超丟臉的。否則更能跟善化人打成一片吧。

An article mentioned Amazon prime members contribute about 20% of Amazon sale.

pretty amazing. no wonder other stores like ToysRus are offering program like

Amazon Prime and hope to pry away some customeers from Amazon.

I guess it's because you mentioned New York, B&N, Borders, and CD opener. Used CD

stores are hard to find now. Thanks to Ebay & Amazon. Even you find one,

classical music CDs are far and few.



Speaking of Boders and B&N, both are badly struggling and one article even

predicted Borders would not survive after 2012. B&N is up for sale. One hedge

fund is interested to provide fund for Borders to buy B&N. I don't understand the

logic of one struggling bookstore trying to buy another less struggling

bookstore. Borders plus B&N can beat Amazon?



Just keep ordering stuff from Amazon. Easy and no tax. I guess I am an addicted

Amazon shopper who would rather order from Amazon instead of going to shop at

Target which is just less than a mile away from my house.

敢問Julia Fischer 的Paganini 有什麼問題嗎？



本來有些興趣的，現在觀望中。如果有具體理由，那我還是省下錢，回去

擁抱我的 Rabin 與 Mintz 版。



台南好玩嗎？出差之餘，有時間去吃些美食？

我從頭到尾把自己的文章看了好幾次，沒有提到任何跟紐約淘兒，也沒有提到買

CD，請問是哪一點讓您想起淘兒？



我對紐約淘兒也有特殊感情，在中央公園附近、林肯中心對面的那家。



有回我到那家淘兒去找一張BBC出的李希特，服務員找了老半天沒有那張唱片。他

說他要幫我調貨，要等個三天，但我隔天就要回台灣了，謝謝他的好意。結果這位

員工很認真的跟我道歉，他說他很抱歉台灣淘兒專業度不夠，讓我得到紐約找CD，

還需要繼續加油。從此我變懂得何謂專業服務。



淘兒倒閉之後(但東京淘兒還在)，後來去紐約就改去Virgin，爵士樂部的店員也非

常專業，有回買了CD結帳，店員開始哈拉起Monk，感覺好像在講鄰家大叔，超有趣

的。



我覺得店頭市場的樂趣可以在二手CD店裡尋回，許多朋友都超愛在其中尋寶。我自

己耐心太差，去過一次很頭暈，就不是很想去。

想起90年代初，在紐約Tower Records的無數美好時光。消費者會決定一家商店

的格局，然後為了對付難纏的消費者，商店會認真去雇用專家，這些專家會影響進

貨，然後會教育出更多難纏的消費者。



為了成全amazon，一座高塔垮了。可大部分消費者並不在乎，笑吟吟把店頭市場

踢進記憶深處，享受著標準化的商品與不用花腦筋的購物經驗。