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Love,

George :)

Mrs. Schwartz – Thanks for the awesome post. I’m glad you appreciate my artistic shenanigans. lol.

Kathyway – Thank you!

Rachel – : ) Thank you.

I’m sorry that your definition of scalping is different from the definition that Merriam-Webster uses. Since you seem to know more about the definition than they do, maybe you should start your own campaign to get M-W to change the definition to whatever it is you want. Until then, I’m going to continue saying that scalping is buying something, then reselling it for an increased price.

If you don’t know what an ‘increased price’ is, well, I dunno, let’s say something like 5 times the retail price (which is the amount for which Zulu usually gets scalped) is at an ‘increased price’ for the purposes of this discussion.

Also, considering that NARS conceptualized, formulated, developed, packaged, and marketed the color, I think that qualifies them as more worthy to profit from it than the person who bought it and paid 30 cents to ebay for an auction space. Again, I, personally, rather give my money to NARS than to some scalper.

Further, I am very sorry that the language in my post and the petition offend your delicate scalper’s sensibilities. I tried to go back and look for all the negative comments that I’m allegedly making in order to remove them but I didn’t find any. I guess that we’ll, sadly, just have to go without your signature.

I am flattered that you think my site can cause enough buzz to raise Zulu’s scalping price. But I would hope that the influence of this campaign would be such that people would temporarily chill out on the Zulu bidding while we wait for a favorable response from NARS. Either way, as I’ve already said, if people want to pay ‘jacked up’ prices for Zulu – that’s fine. As I told you before, I don’t think there is any thing inherently wrong with selling something for a profit, any profit even an increased profit. All I’m saying is that the people who do so are ’scalpers’, and that I, personally, as a consumer, don’t want to pay 5 times the retail price for anything, even my beloved Zulu. I don’t really understand why that is so offensive to you – I guess you must enjoy paying 5 times the retail price for things that you want. Which, again, is totally fine, but I think it’s kind of ridiculous that you are basically telling me that I should enjoy it too.

I know the girl who is selling Zulu on ebay right now. She’s not a bad person in any sense. In fact she was the first person that, out of the goodness of her heart, RAOK’d me a Zulu dupe because she knew how much I wanted the real thing. I don’t think there is anything wrong her selling her bottle for that much especially because I’m pretty sure her auction started low and was bid up to the price it is at now. I just personally don’t want to pay that much for it. The person who wins it, I hope they love it and I hope they find that it was worth the money. And maybe in some sense you are right: if something gets bid up to a certain point – maybe that’s not true scalping – but I’ve seen Zulu auctions with ridiculously high starting prices to me that is scalping. One person even filled a mini bottle with Zulu and tried to sell it for 30 dollars as the starting price. Again, to me, that is scalping. While it’s not illegal, I think it’s unconscionable. And just like you are entitled to make up whatever definition you want for the words scalper/scalping, I, too, am entitled to my own opinions on the definition of scalping.

I can only imagine that you’re so ardently defending scalpers because you yourself are one. And if you are, I would rather lose you as a reader than have you continue to read my site for my inadvertent tips on how to continue to rip people off.

Ninarz – Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Lauren – I’ve actually approached a few companies about this – no one has seemed interested up to this point. : (

Dami – Awesome, I really appreciate the support. <3

Melanie – : )

Sanna – Agreed.

whatever, this is all about the zulu. i would’ve signed the petition just because i’d be happy to see the color back, and for fellow polish lovers to be able to buy it. but all the negative remarks on ebay, resellers, NARS etc., in the petition is preventing me.

additionally, the extra buzz might even jack up demand prices even more, giving enhanced opportunity to make a quick profit, at least until such time it’s reproduced.

boy do i wish i have a stash of that green gold :D