Cellular Phones Seem to be disrupting Up Yard Sales

According to the Wall Street Journal via CellFreak and digg, "the ability to check the value of something by use of your mobile phone, either by calling a good friend or by using an SMS-based lookup (such as Froogle) seems to be heavily upsetting the once laid-back yard sales and garage sales."

"What was once a casual affair […] has been replaced by the frenzy of a free-market economy. Aggressive shoppers are arming themselves with global-positioning devices to quickly zoom from sale to sale and special scanners and cellphone services that let them do a quick price check on items (such as used books and CDs) that have barcodes printed on them."

Picture from Taiwan blogger.

emily | 3:49 PM | News, Buzz |
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