Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sam's Enchanted Leaving
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.20.2004
The footage of Troy's leg wax, however, is delightful. Not in a porny kind of way or anything, but just because a guy endlessly swearing over the pain in his ass that is beauty makes my heart do little happy dances. The next challenge should definitely involve climbing in and out of a car in the snow without snagging your pantyhose. Troy grimaces, Troy swears, Troy writhes in pain. It's almost as if he's having the hair on his legs yanked out by the roots. Oh, hey. Yeah. I encourage him to try eyebrow-plucking also, because it is not as impressive in terms of acreage, but it also hurts. In a very silly interview, Troy looks very solemnly at the camera and says, "I want everybody to know...that this is for the team." Hee. Wow, in that interview you can see how lovely and smooth his legs are. Hee, again. That's going to be mighty itchy growing back in, there, pretty-boy. More writhing. More swearing. More moaning. Oh, Troy. "This is just not right," he says, miserably staring at the ceiling. "This is medieval." Yes. Yes, Troy, it is. I encourage you to try a fourteen-hour stint in heels.
The VersaCorp field team is in the back of a cab, on the phone with another store, asking whether it carries the necessary golf club. It apparently does, so the next thing you know, the guys are jogging down the sidewalk. They enter World of Golf (a magical kingdom ruled by loud pants) and start trying to get a deal on the club.
Elsewhere, Amy walks into a sporting-goods store somewhere else entirely. She seems to have talked to the guy behind the counter in advance, perhaps on the phone, because she knows his name and introduces herself.
Back at World of Golf, Bowie is asking what kind of a deal they might be able to get on the Big Bertha. The sales guy says there are no deals on Big Bertha. None, zero, zip. List price. "Firm price," he tells Bowie.
"Why is it so expensive?" Amy asks the guy at her store. He tells her it's the Chanel of golf clubs. She looks down at herself, and says self-deprecatingly, "Do I look like someone who would wear Chanel?" She does, of course, but he doesn't say so, because...well, you can't.
Bowie, to World of Golf Guy: "If I was in here a lot, would I get some kind of a discount...." World of Golf Guy: "Perhaps." Bowie, grinning: "Perhaps. So there is some way we can...possibly get some kind of a discount...." World of Golf Guy: "Not on that club." Heh.
Amy offers her guy cost plus 10%. She shrugs. "You're makin' money." He agrees to cost plus 10%, and they shake hands on a price of $300 on a club that retails for $419. I have to say, Amy did that very well, and totally differently from Bowie, you'll notice. I mean, much of it had to do with finding the right store, I think, but in a pretty elementary fashion, Bowie went in and tried to negotiate down from the retail price by begging for "discounts," while Amy went in and worked up from cost. If you've ever read any kind of advice about buying cars, that's exactly what they tell you to do, which is the absolutely only reason I know anything about it. I don't negotiate that way at, like, Target, obviously. Furthermore, Amy asked for "cost plus 10%," and then she was the one who immediately quoted $300, so I wonder if she somehow knew in advance the cost to the retailer of that club. If she did, or her team did, good for them. I'd like to think they've done something meritorious somewhere along the line.
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