There's A Run On The Black Steve Jobs Turtleneck

[miK.]

Minnesota company St. Croix, which makes the mock black turtlenecks that Steve Jobs famously wore,
is having a banner sales week. Sales more than doubled yesterday, the day after Jobs' death, according to
the Minnesota Business Journal, and some stores have run out of them.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...n-the-.DTL

$175 seems a bit steep for something you can get a good version of elsewhere for about $40.
Must be the microfiber... http://www.stcroixshop.com/stcroix/

Great also that they are donating $20 from every sale of that model to the ACS.

[guitarist]

ACS?

http://www.acs.org ?

http://www.acs-inc.com ?

http://www.acstechnologies.com ?

or...

http://www.cancer.org ?

[RAMd®d]

I thought I read that he payed $60 for the shirts.

Seems like the company is taking quite an advantage.

Nice of you to correct their headline, miK.

[RAMd®d]

Must be the microfiber...


• Hand crafted in America

Ah, there's the reason.

[guitarist]

Each micro fiber is hand-engineered for maximum uniformity and perfection. Using specially trained nano-people, with exceptionally good health and dental benefits.

[Jack D.]

Only in America, high tech hand held calculator with higher math functions (reverse engineered from aliens) $40. Hand crafted mock turtle neck (not even a whole turtle neck!) made from farm raised, milk fed polyesters $175.

[miK.]

guitarist wrote: ACS?

It was late and I was in abbreviate mode. I know the other ACS well as I work for Xerox.
A simple click of the St. Croix link I listed shows the donation info... http://www.stcroixshop.com/stcroix/

[MacDoxy]

american cancer society.




but all the clothes are 3x the price of other stores. esp since the styles aren't anything you can't find, but it is about having a choice to buy american.. i guess.

[Seacrest]

Don't like the price? Don't buy it.
That's the beauty of capitalism.

There's always somebody who will exploit foreign child labor and sell it to you for less.

[guitarist]

miK. wrote:
[quote=guitarist]ACS?

It was late and I was in abbreviate mode. I know the other ACS well as I work for Xerox.
A simple click of the St. Croix link I listed shows the donation info... http://www.stcroixshop.com/stcroix/
It wasn't until after I clicked the link that I discovered what the mysterious abbreviation was. The first ones that came up when I searched were all those others!

Then I discovered that the American Cancer Institute's website's URL wasn't what I thought it would be!