As I begin today's post, I must confess I am not much of a Black Friday shopper. I prefer to spend the Friday after Thanksgiving skiing and not standing in line trying to get a good deal on stuff. Unfortunately the ski areas around me in Utah are still closed. Yes I could go to Brighton or Solitude but the limited terrain available has kept me home. Being home still didn't convince me to go shopping on Black Friday.
Cyber Monday rolled around and that is known for great online deals. I received a number of e-mails letting me know about great prices on things I might be interested in purchasing. While some of the deals looked interesting, I didn't make any purchases on Cyber Monday either.
Travel Tuesday followed Cyber Monday and I must confess that I finally made a purchase. My wife and I plan to go ski Alyeska in Alaska during the month of March and so I kept my eyes open for deals there. I didn't receive any notifications. I just looked at the ski area website and saw they had a limited sale going on. The only catch is that you have to prepay the entire stay and if something comes up prohibiting you from the trip, you have to eat the cost of lodging. My wife and I are pretty set on going so I purchased plane tickets and then paid for the slope-side hotel. We are now ready for our trip.
At the beginning of the ski season, I started looking for a new ski jacket. About a month ago my wife found me the perfect one and so I purchased it at a really amazing price. Unfortunately I still get daily e-mails from ski jacket companies trying to entice me to buy their wares. The prices for jackets I looked at always seem to be dropping. My hope is that I won't be inundated by Alyeska asking me to book another trip to come ski with them. My trip is scheduled and unless the snow is extra amazing, I don't plan to go back. I would rather try new areas. I'll be interested to see what happens.
This is the same sort of phenomenon that happens when you donate to certain charities. They then use the money you gave them to solicit more donations from you until you politely asked to be removed from their mailing list. Even then, you will still probably get a few more requests.
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