i'm gonna get you

Tomorrow [Wednesday] the Skidshop is hosting an inventory reduction sale.  It’s gonna be huge.*  BC’s got the lowdown:

Everyone, this isn’t your ordinary sale, this is THEE sale.  It’s the sale you’ve dreamed about.  This is the white whale of sales……except you actually capture it.  So I guess technically we can’t call it the white whale of sales.  How about this…this is the Bigfoot of sales!  Technically that’s wrong too, since there is no definitive proof of Bigfoot.  I mean it’s not even a sale……it’s bigger than a sale.  It’s an EVENT!! So how about we call it what it is…it’s the INVENTORY REDUCTION EVENT of the year and it’s on April 25th, and it’s gonna be massiiiiiive.  Mega huge discounts on many items in the store.  Stop in any time on April 25th and check the great money saving deals in the store.

Sale tomorrow 4/25 from 9:15-7:00

*Fuccillo moved down to Florida a few years ago but he took no time off saturating the airwaves down there.  Even inspired this music video.

Time to get RID of these fuckers!

Selling back your textbooks can suck. If you haven’t done the rental thing from places like Chegg, then you don’t have an easy-to-print UPS sticker waiting for you online, and you’re trying to get those black holes sold. Here are the three most common methods of getting back nowhere near as much as you paid in:

SkidShop is super convenient and keeps the books within the campus, which means they can offer more, cheaper used books to shoppers next semester. Good for future generations, bad for wallets – it’s like, don’t even offer me $3.00 for a book that I bought for $49.99, how twisted are you?

BellTower is a Cornell thing where they promise to buy back almost every book in almost any condition, and the Skidmore student reps roam around like little gypsy librarians with leather pouches of money, which is cute. I’ve made some good money from them in the past, but it’s not like the whole thing is a slam dunk – SkidShop prices can be competitive. You can find fliers with BellTower contact info around campus.

Skrounge.com – a homegrown Skidmore operation! – is also offering textbook buybacks. It’s a P2P sort of marketplace and takes a bit more work on your part (i.e. get an account if you don’t have one already, type up a little info, maybe upload a picture), but you can probably get a lot more for it because the middleman doesn’t take so much. In a best case scenario, you get paid more than what the big guys would pay you, and the buyer gets it for less than they would at a store. You just gotta hustle it.

A few things to keep in mind: the SkidShop threw down hard last week at the Fashion Show and provided good, free food on many a hectic Wednesday night. Just saying, maybe there’s something to paying it forward. Also, you can get your books appraised at the SkidShop, sell what makes sense, and keep the ones with insultingly low offers to try at BellTower or Skrounge or start a bonfire with.

So, convenience or price? Loyalty or cash? I smartened up and didn’t buy any books this year, so I’m not even touching this thing. Good luck making the best moral and fiscal choice, and get some booze money for break.

I'm worried that I might see this when I fall asleep tonight.

That’s right, the fantastic event where Reg won his iPad (1st gen) is back! The Skidshop’s annual fashion show is here to further distract you from finals, what with all the free food, live music by Slim Charles and chances to donate to some worthy causes. Guaranteed to be the best Wednesday you’ve had for a long time.

There’s the huge sale in the Skidshop from 11:30am to 10:00/11:00pm (?), and then there is the fashion show itself (itinerary courtesy of the SkidShop blog). Oh what’s that? You don’t know how to work tabbed browsing? Ok dummy, here:

• SkidShop Holiday Sale tomorrow from 11:30am to 10:00pm.
• You can win up to 50% off of your purchase (with some exceptions).
• You can also lose your discount (sad face).
• Fashion Show in The Spa starts at 7:30 with SGA Speech night.  It’s fashionable to run for office.
• Food and music begins at 8:00pm.
• You can be a part of our $1,000 Apple Product giveaway.  Sign up at The SkidShop right up until 8:00pm tomorrow.
• We are collecting toys for Toys For Tots.
• We are collecting school supplies for Skidmore Cares.

Just get there at 7:30pm and soak it all in.

Ok, so this new sandwich place in town, Sangwych will be coming tomorrow to the shop at 5 and giving away free samples. I’m looking at the menu right now and oh black betty bam ba lam.  These sangwychs are fire.  I’m about to smang the Bensonhurst sangwych super hard.

sangs all day long

Sangwych @ Skidshop, Wednesday 5-7

"I'm dumb"

WE THE BEST! WHO?! WE, WE THE BEST!! THIS THE REMIX!!! THIS THE ESPERANTO REMIX!!!

Did you miss the Esperanto extravaganza last week?  Did you forget what cream cheese tastes like?  Did you forget why you have a Lipitor prescription?
It doesn’t matter, Esperanto will be returning to the Skid Shop packing mad heat in the form of doughboys, pizza and Frank’s Red Hot.  If we’re lucky they may even bring some samples of the new member of the Dough family. Rumor has it that this summer, when Dough Boy and Dough Girl were away at summer camp, Dough Aunt and Dough Uncle got real busy.  Yes, on that fateful night the Dough Cousin was born.

According to facebook the Dough Cousin is filled with spinach, roasted red peppers, red onions, feta and mozzarella cheese.

Esperanto @ the Skid Shop
Wednesday [9/21] 5-7

creamy goodness

It’s true.  This Wednesday (9/14) Esperanto, the late night saviour of high and drunk kids alike, is making an appearance in front of the Skid Shop.  It is not recommended, however, to be inebriated for this, as they’re visiting from 5-7pm and it’s Wednesday.

They’ll be stationed right in front of the shop and be giving away free doughboys.  Doughboys, which rumor has it were forged in the fires of Tisch by Professor Sheldon Solomon,  consist of chicken, spices and creamy cream cheese all wrapped together in baked pizza dough.  They’re good, although having more than one is pushing your luck.

Esperanto’s food is a staple of any well balanced Skidmore diet, don’t pass up this opportunity to get a free fix.  They’ll also be bringing pizza and other things with less cream cheese.
Plus, the Skid Shop is just a cool place to hang out. Maybe you still need to buy that Spanish textbook, maybe you still need a notebook, whatever. I don’t care.

I am scared of dogs, especially big dogs, but those of you that enjoy the slobbering presence of large hairy animals will be delighted to know that 5 Newfoundlands will be running around the SkidShop this evening starting at 5:30pm. You can, like, play with them and stuff while you buy some pens, or maybe an iPad2.    Look at how big these fuckers are?

Want to know a secret? The best hangover cure available without a perscription in Saratoga County is an order of bacon cheese fries from Spring Street Deli (with hot sauce).

If you’re interested in meeting the masterminds behind this wonderful creation you should stop by the SkidShop today between 5 and 7pm to thank them for reinvigorating your Saturday mornings and clogging your arteries.

Spring Street is on campus thanks to the SkidShop’s ongoing generous series of free food events that we don’t deserve.

UPDATE: grab the deal between 5and7pm only.

And why is this important you ask? Well, because tomorrow in front of the SkidShop Saratoga’s own Frozen Yogurt/sushi/bubble tea/gummy bear palace Plum Dandy will be handing out free samples and if you want to appear culturally relevant and in tune with current trends it behooves you to show up between 5 and 7pm to get spotted indulging.

xoxo