Ummm, I am happy for you, but could you please explain? Well, everything except the Red Sox issue - I understand that part.

Hee-HEEEEE!

There's a huge furniture store in town called "Jordan's Furniture"--it's kind of an icon in the Boston area (even Ben Affleck and Matt Damon love the place). They ran a special last March-April that if you bought your furniture within that month-long time frame, you got the furniture free if the Red Sox won the World Series. Some guy charged $40,000 worth of furniture to furnish his whole house, hoping that the Sox would relieve him of his debt.

The CURSE OF THE BAMBINO is GONE, BABY!!!!

Now if the Cubs win next year - 100 years since last series win - now we are talking. LOL.

Oh yeah: I bought a new sofa and bed during the promotion. :)

Sorry: not thinking clearly!!!

Buh-bye, $2000 of furniture debt!!!

Here is a link that might be useful: The Curse of the Bambino

That's awesome Organic! I just posted on the Conversations side about the Red Sox winning, and I had forgotten about the Jordan's deal. Too bad I hadn't bought anything there, but I'm happy for you!

And on a much smaller note - don't forget about free tacos from Taco Bell for everyone in the U.S. on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., courtesy of the stolen base by Red Sox player, Julio Lugo.

organic, that is wonderful news. Congratulations!!

Congratulations Organic! That is wonderful news! Post pics please. :)

Thanks, guys! I'm pretty happy---in case you didn't notice???

Hee-hee!!!

Off to dreamland. Have a great night, everybody!!!

And a small "thank you" to the Bambino. *wink*

Wow, that's an amazing deal! Don't know how they could do that for a month, but glad you won!!

Very cool! SO happy for you! A furniture store around here did that when the White Sox went to the world series and won. The owner is a die-hard Sox fan, and said it was worth whatever it cost to see the Sox be the champs.

congrats organic!!!! And YAY SOX!!!!!!!!!

Just a wee correction that the Tacos are courtesy of Jacoby Ellsbury's stolen base, not Julio Lugo. They are joking around here and calling it Taco Bellsbury.

I think they said Jordan's is giving away $30 mil in free furniture. They bought an insurance policy for this.

I wonder if the insurance company's underwriting department is still employed? *yikes* 30 million is a LOT of free furniture.

That is so cool - how neat for you!

LOL, very cool, osh, congrats!! :D

My niece just got married and furnished her whole house during that promotion.
she sure will be psyched when she gets home from honeymoon.

Namabafo, you're correct; it was Ellsbury, not Lugo who got the stolen base. Before I posted that I asked my husband if it was Lugo or Ellsbury. He said it was Lugo. I blame him - my DH, not Lugo :)

Congrats Organic. Whoo Hoo GO SOX!!!!

Hey Namabafo, just curious, I work in the insurance industry, what company would furnish an insurance policy for such a venture? Insurance doesn't cover gambling and this is certainly a gamble on Jordan's Furniture part.

Go Sox!!!

Nancy

pam--sure, blame the dh...(and I don't mean Big Papi) LOL!!! I just love Ellsbury--the look of joy on his face as he ran in from left after the last out--priceless. Nice ending for a rookie year...(and I guess he'll still be considered a rookie next year due to number of at bats??)

Nancy--not sure who unwrote teh policy it...but they did...

quote from The Boston Globe: "Chief executive Eliot Tatelman hasn't disclosed how much the rebates would be, but he won't have to pay it all. He bought an insurance policy to cover losses if the team wins." (so I guess I made up the $30 mil? I'm sure I heard that...maybe I was confusing it with the 30,000 customers who bought during the promo??)

an Appliance store near here does a similar thig 2x a year--betting on the temp on certain day. We did it when we buying for our kitchen. We lost. LOL!

from another Nancy (and my b-day is on the 24th so I love your screenname!!!)

That is too cool!!
You just won the lottery:)

I think Lloyds of London does policies like this. It's the same kind of policy a business would get for engagement rings. Buy an engagement ring from us and if it rains on your wedding day, it's free kind of deal.

Insurance is legalized gambling, for or against something to happen or not. The actuaries are the suppliers of the information to the underwriters who are the oddsmakers. Insurance agents are the bookies and the claims adjusters are the ones that pay out on lost bets.

For example a teenager with limited driving history is more apt to have an accident. The insurance company bets on him or having an accident and the parents policy goes up in price. If the teenager is a good student, they more likely to be responsible and the rate can be discounted by proof of good grades. As the teen ages and proves to be a good driver and the odds are showing that they will be a safer bet, the rate goes down.

Well, I'm the person at the right place only at the wrong time! I purchased many pieces of furniture from Jordan's not realizing I was "out of the winner's circle" timeframe, so none of my purchases counted for rebate if the Sox won. I think I missed it by one week...My brother was very fortunate in that he purchased a very expensive leather sectional sofa which will now be his for free!

There's some rumor that Jordan's will do something like this again, but for golf tournaments...could just be a rumor, though.

Go Sox!!!!

Wow, how cool is that? Congrats on your free furniture!

Congratulations to you who won the lottery and the store who also won plenty of great advertising, the American capitalist way, against all odds.

namabafo, that is so cool that your name is Nancy and your birthday is on the 24th!! My 24 is for Dwight Evans, my favorite Red Sox player, although I am sure everyone thinks is it for Manny (who is great in his own right!!!)

Nancy :)

Organic, you are so lucky! You were also smart enough to take that bet. Congratulations and enjoy the furniture!

LOL! I understand that the cost to Jordan's is in the millions. That is fantastic for all those who took a chance!

Nat (who misses taking the kids to "MOM" :) )

Here is a link that might be useful: jordans site

Lucky girl!!! Great promotion! I think that nasty curse died 3 years ago. ;)

Threegrad, my brother and you too! Now to get rid of the curse of the billy goat, lol.

Redsox24, Dewey and Billy Buck ... that's when I loved the Sox!

Go Organic! Good for you!

I don't see what the big deal is with the Cubs, myself. Anyone can have a bad century.

(sniff, sniff)

Organic, I am insanely jealous, but I congratulate you just the same. :-)

Holy cow! That's awesome!!!

Organic, you are one true believer! Heartiest congrats to you but you deserve it for your faith in the team.

Don't forget that there are free tacos tomorrow between 2-5 at Taco Bell so everyone can enjoy the win!

Way to go!!!!

Congrats on the Big Win and the Freebies!

Namabafo, yes, Ellsbury looked so cute at the end of the game. I've got a little "thing" for Papelbon - yummy!

Redsox 24, Natal, and any other "old" Red Sox fans - my fave Red Sox years were those of Butch Hobson (#4- I was in love with that guy!), Dewey (he looked good on TV a few nights ago), Fred Lynn, Jerry Remy, Carlton Fisk, Yaz, Rick Burleson, Jim Rice, George Scott, etc.

On the other hand, I haven't followed the Celtics since the glory days of Bird, McHale, Parrish, Ainge, Carr...

pam--those were the days! I, too, loved Butch Hobson, Dewey, etc...my friends and I used to fight over who of us was going to be Mrs. Hobson...though I had a little thing for Pudge when I was in HS and wore #27 on my track uniform! LOL!! Yaz, too, looked awesome, the other night..

I never really followed the Celts or the Pats (don't shoot me, but I HATE fotball with a passion..and I live 20 minutes from Foxboro...LOL!)

Congratulations from another New Englander who wishes she'd made the trip to Jordan's! Enjoy!

I don't follow sports so what were the odds that the redsox wouldn't have won the series? How likely was it at the time that they would get to the series and win it?

Congrats Organic! (Was that the "replacement couch"? LOL) Yay for our Sox! We didn't watch baseball at all until this year, but we followed almost every minute of the pennant race and the World Series, although I'm slightly embarrassed to say that we both fell asleep around the 7th inning last night. *sheepish grin*

I think Jordan's is likely to run that promotion every year now, though - it brought them one HECK of a lot of free publicity, and if they had to buy that amount of advertising it would far outweigh the cost of that insurance policy and the license fee to the Sox (who also got quite a bit of publicity out of it as well). Although... JordanÂs Furniture was purchased in 1999 by Warren Buffett's megacorporation Berkshire Hathaway, which owns some 50 insurance companies including GEICO. So I imagine, in a rather convoluted way, they did self-insure on this one.

Thanks, everybody! Despite my rather difficult day today (see "Conversation" side), I"m still pretty happy about it. :)

judiegal: Your niece will be THRILLED!

Mari: Yes, it was the "replacement couch"! And dh fell asleep in the 3rd inning, so you guys did way better than us. :) I knew that Warren Buffet had bought them, but I didn't know the insurance side of it. Now that you point it out, of course, it makes perfect sense.

flyingflower: I'm not sure what the odds were, actually. I think they were pretty good, though certainly not a sure bet. :)

Mari, actually, Bershire also owns General Re which insures insurers. They may be called to help pay out the claim though to whatever insurer insured it.

Geico doesn't deal with that type of risk, only personal liability. I'd forgotten about Jordan's being a Berkshire company. I wonder what that's going to do to my stock? lol

BVE, I just picked GEICO out of the list because I knew it was a company most people would know - little lizardy dudes with Cockneyesque accents and all that. ;-) I had a feeling most people wouldn't know General Re from the General Lee!

I saw that promotion in the spring and thought about going down there, but never got around to it. Kicking self now....

Oh, if only my MIL were still around. She loved Jordan's. And a bargain. And maybe the Sox too, but I'm not entirely sure... :-)

Congrats OSH!!!! It's fun to be a winner!

As for the tacos, I haven't been to The Bell in almost 20 years. Maybe I need to rethink that one.

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