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Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | John and Jen Palmer love to buy each other little presents. |
| 0:11.0 | Figurines, desk toys, Chachke's are their love language. |
| 0:15.0 | But a while ago, this got them into trouble. |
| 0:18.0 | What is the inciting Chachke? |
| 0:20.0 | What is the Chachke that gets this whole story going? |
| 0:23.0 | It was basically looking for something for Jen for her desk at work. |
| 0:28.0 | John goes online, finds this website called cleargear.com. |
| 0:32.0 | Cleargear with a K, of course. |
| 0:33.0 | It's just a website that sells like little toys for grown-ups. |
| 0:36.0 | And John decides to order not one but two little Chachke's for Jen. |
| 0:40.0 | I think one of them was a one of the ones where it's the sand art. |
| 0:45.0 | And then I think another one was one of the little perpetual motion toys. |
| 0:50.0 | Like a little silver ball, things or something? |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:54.0 | They were meant to be stocking stuffers. |
| 0:56.0 | The total cost is around 20 bucks. |
| 0:58.0 | John pays with PayPal. |
| 1:00.0 | Then a week goes by, two weeks. |
| 1:02.0 | The sand art thing and the little click-click silver ball thing never show up. |
| 1:06.0 | So Jen gets involved. |
| 1:07.0 | She tries to call the company, but she can't get anybody on the phone. |
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