Back in June, I talked about the item of the day, the phenomenon in which particular items keep showing up at different sales throughout the day. Today's item, for example, was sleeping bags.
Serious salers will also notice "items of the month" or items for even larger periods. For whatever reason, some uncommon items appear not frequently enough to be considered the item of the day for any particular day but still far more frequently over a period than you would normally find them.
I know the paragraph above doesn't make sense so I'll try to describe it here. Take, for example, XBox 360 games. These are pretty uncommon; before last April I had seen them maybe once or twice at sales. Starting in April, I started seeing them at maybe two or three sales per day every day we went out. They weren't that common but we were still finding them more frequently than we normally would over a sustained period. We kept finding 360 games through May and June but in July they disappeared.
Another thing I've noticed regards searching for common items. I've recently been looking for a new computer monitor because the one I had was quickly dying. Monitors themselves are fairly common but I wanted a cheap widescreen one; I didn't want a square panel. What surprised me is how many monitors you do see at sales. I guess I never noticed until I started looking, but I've been seeing at least five or six monitors every time I've gone saling the last few times. Unfortunately, until today, all the monitors I saw were square panels. I finally found a widescreen today, but I'll talk about that in my purchase summary I'll be posting directly after this. My point is that you tend to ignore the really common items you see to the point that you don't even realize how common they are.
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