Sentences with phrase «sold for pennies»

If anything, it's worried about the nature of the current gaming landscape, especially since many games these days are sold for pennies on the dollar.
This translates to greater staffing needs in accounts receivable as well as the risk of an account going into collection and being sold for pennies on the dollar.
If that doesn't work, the debt is often sold for pennies on the dollar to collection agencies, which are then free to try to recoup the money.
Many paper books are sold for pennies after they've been out long enough too.
«Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
I would sell them for a penny (in fact I would have sold them for a penny even in the summer after bragging about pay rises after they sent us in the 5th place, sure Wenger, Xhaka etc had their contribution as well to it).
Digital Manga's emanga.com website offers free previews of it series which it sells for pennies a chapter and it's the same for NetComics.
Identity thieves, fraudsters, and other criminals prefer cash advances to jewelry, electronics, and other goods they must sell for pennies on the dollar.
Heck, even if you sell them for a penny, you still made a profit since you did not pay anything for them, just reward points.
We honestly can't remember seeing the iPad Pro-dependent (but separate) Apple Pencil sold for a penny less than the $ 94.99 Best Buy currently charges after a «grand» $ 5 markdown.

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U.K. businesses that sell via Amazon.com's local site are up in arms over a software glitch late Friday that led to their items being sold for as little as a penny.
He talked about educating people about the dangers of the drug, decried marijuana as a gateway drug, and called for a «one - penny fee on every milligram of opiates that are produced and sold in America» to be collected for treatment.
The second, identical in size to a real penny, but made of solid gold, sells for a piggybank - busting $ 130.
The coins are worth more in material from a specific date, you hoard pennies of that time range and can sell them to collectors or melt them down for the copper which has a much higher cost than the actual penny.
For your broker to even sell you a penny stock, they're legally required to send you a document outlining the risks of penny stock ownership.
Heaps of trading platforms allow practice trades for long positions, but i'm having trouble finding any that provide a practice account that allows short selling penny stocks.
Devumi essentially buys fake accounts from a variety of «bot makers» and then sells them to customers looking to increase their social media reach for as little as a penny per account.
So if she buys her house in 2014 for $ 100,000, and sells it in 2024 for $ 350,000, she keeps every single penny of that gain.
Still, this morning's news that Spark Therapeutics is selling its PRV to Jazz Pharmaceuticals $ JAZZ for $ 110 million shows the vouchers continue to draw a pretty penny.
There is still a possibility this will happen; in a wind - down like this, the board and founders are obligated (sometimes legally, always morally) to sell the assets to recover even a penny on the dollar for investors (which in this case would be ~ $ 50,000).
Of course, you have to be careful with this; volume is shaky at best for penny stocks, which means you can be left holding the bag with tons of cheap shares that aren't going anywhere and are tough to sell.
Another shareholder wrote in about Coke, noted that you declined to invest in the cigarette business on ethical grounds despite one saying, «It was a perfect business because it costs a penny to make, sell it for a dollar, it's addictive, and there's fantastic brand loyalty».
In case you didn't know what Penny stock is; Penny Stocks are the stocks that are sold for less than a dollar in the stock market.
Here, we share five recommendations for buying and selling penny stocks, sometimes called small - cap stocks or micro-cap stocks, that can help you to become a better investor.
On the other hand, the butcher might have his own very good reason for selling his previously high value meats at temporarily knocked - down prices, just as in the market lows of March 2009 you could buy some blue - chip stocks at almost penny stock prices.
His mother was reduced to sewing for pennies, with Charles and his brother selling newspapers and doing odd jobs.
[9] The «penny» catechism (still sold for one penny in my childhood) derived from the pre-Reformation «Primers», and expanded over the years; this quotation is taken from a slender version printed in Newcastle in 1790.
Luke 12 contains both the reassuring words «Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?
Or again, to signify the price for which he was sold, viz., thirty pence.
He noted that dairy cooperatives in Ireland are responding more positively to events on global markets, adding that prices are also rising sharply in Great Britain — and said that some processors in Northern Ireland are buying milk cheaply from local farmers and selling it on a booming spot market for up to 35 pence (43 cents) a liter.
So before you try to sell the ridiculous notion that our manager's hands are tied by financial constraints or that we were burned by the ineptitude of the Financial Fair Play pie - in - the - sky mandate, or that we are just a humble, family - oriented club that is resigned to counting our pennies and cutting corners to make ends meet, I implore you to take your blinkers off just for a brief moment and honestly examine the harsh realities currently facing our club.
The state gives water to Nestle for pennies on the dollar, against almost everyone's wishes, and they'll get to turn around and sell it to the poor people of Flint at obscene profits, it still poisons them (recent tests show that bottled water is often contaminated with plastic particulates from the bottling process) and where all those plastic bottles end up is someone else's problem.
So Hull City can afford to bid for a # 13m rated player even though they haven't received a penny from player sales in two seasons and yet we are seemingly unable to buy unless we sell, how did this happen?
Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off
BUT what we'll get is no profit on Flamini, Arteta and Rosicky and maybe only one major purchase to the tune of «there are no players out there for sale who are better than what we have» or «we tried to sign the player but the club he was at asked too much» or a desultory offer for say karim Benzema of 35 million and one half pence, just to piss the club he's at off enough to refuse to sell full stop.
I guess I could add (7) Selling RVP to the main rival (8) Refuse to buy back Fabregas for a penny (Even though I agree that CAM is a bit too populated position.
Paying Theo isn't a bad thing, Theo not developing is the bad thing and we should be able to sell him for a pretty penny if we can find a buyer, English Tax can make up for the wages if transfer done right.
Wenger is doing his usual squabbling over trying to save a few pence over transfers, and letting them slip, while wasting millions through not playing players (Joel Campbell, Lucas Perez), selling players for less than they're worth (Woj, Gibbs — who we rejected 10m for and have now sold for 7m), and not renewing contracts, saying players will honour their last year with no problems, which is clearly not the case, and it is not only stoked up by the players, but agents and press as well.
The extended losing allowed them to sell more players for prospects like Brad Penny.
Juventus are really stupid with that kinda derisory offer for a player like Sanchez... especially if they eventually sell PP for 100m???? that's penny pinching beyond even Wenger..
Arsene Wenger is not very happy that some of Arsenal's rivals in the Premier League have had lucky breaks handed to them on a plate, while poor old Wenger has had to struggle for every penny he has earned for the Gunners in the last 20 years, and had to build the Emirates Stadium with his bare hands while being forced to sell all his best players.
Greedy Stan Kronke is only concerned with making money, and if Usmanov sells up then we are in it deep cos Wenger will continue to steal a living from the club as will that clown Walcott.We are also rans, there is no real desire to spend a penny more than necessary and every year Wenger fiddles around at the edges of the team but never really completes the job, I'm sick of watching the same game over and over, Wenger waving his arms about but doing the like for like subs on about 70 mins as usual while Bouldy sticks to his vow of silence, we are a joke among the top teams, and if Wenger signs a new deal then I may have to take a 2 year sabbatical cos I'm sick of the man and his bu # * ~ $ t press conferences,
We do sell fleece liners, but you can make them for pennies (flannel, too).
We do sell them, or you can cut your own from scrap fleece for a few pennies (no sewing needed), just cut into 15 x 5 rectangles.
It sells for $ 72 and is worth every penny.
The remaining 63 pence of the 79 pence selling price will be split between company and retailer profit and the costs of marketing, including advertising campaigns, baby clubs, «carelines», events for health workers, and other promotion.
The exploitation of dairy farmers by the supermarkets, brought to life by the young farmer who tells me of her 365 day a year job where she must sell milk for 5 pence a litre less than it costs her farm to produce it.
I retreat to Winchester train station for the journey home, past Churchill's newsagent, which used to sell penny sweets in old plastic containers, as if nothing had changed since Victorian times, past the Railway Inn, where we used to try to buy drinks when we were underage, past the old house of a school friend where I used to spend most of the summer.
«Five years ago fishermen were selling red gurnard as bait to crab fishermen for 50 pence a fish,» Simpson says.
The public may or may not become engaged over the threat to polar bears, they will surely be aroused to action if they realize the consequences of a warmer world — and that they have been sold out for a few pennies.
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