Sales of Confederate flags are soaring

[question everything]

Source: Yahoo finance

Alotta Signs of Sparks, Nev., typically sells about five Confederate flags per week. On Monday, however, 46 orders came in. Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the stars and bars from her state's capitol grounds. The next morning, Alotta Signs logged 200 orders for Confederate flags, most of them through Amazon (AMZN). “We don’t even have the lowest price,” says Dave Pearson, owner and president of the company. “It’s nuts.”

The threat of scarcity often leads to a run on products -- such as guns, with sales typically spiking when there's talk of tightening regulations after mass shootings. And that appears to be the case for the Confederate flag, now under assault in the aftermath of the murder of nine worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

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Walmart (WMT) and Sears (SHLD) said they would no longer sell Confederate flag merchandise. But other retailers are benefiting from the controversy. On Monday, before Haley announced her change in position on the flag (which still must be approved by the state assembly), Amazon listed two Confederate flags among the 60 bestselling items under “Outdoor Flags and Banners”: one at the No. 5 spot, and one at No. 43. The following morning, five of the top 20 bestsellers in the category were Confederate flags, including the No. 1 bestseller, a 3-by-5 foot polyester model made by Rhode Island Novelty and sold by a company called Anley. Among the top 60, 12 were versions of the Confederate flag.



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Sigh..

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. this is going to flush them out of their holes. very predictable behavior, sadly

[nc4bo]

35. Reminds me of The Great Ammo Rush. Pres. Obama was going to take away their gunz.

Freaking morons.

[NRaleighLiberal]

36. you are being too kind...mincing words!

With all that is going on, I can't even pull together a succinct sentence that truly describes how I fell about things.

[hatrack]

2. Hoarding flags to wrap their precious, precious hoarded ammunition in . . .

[msongs]

3. same crowd that sent gun sales soaring the day obama was elected first time nt

[HockeyMom]

9. And Sandy Hook

Question with that one, which stats proved, was that it was people who already owned guns buying MORE.

I would guess it it probably true for Confederate Flags also.

[Wilms]

4. There are good reasons for this.

1. Racists need them to self-identify.
2. Some may want them for use as toilet paper or a shop rag.
3. They make excellent door mats.
4. They are purrfect as a liner for the kitty box.
5. You never know when you may have opportunity to shove a wad of one in Rush Limbaugh's mouth.
6. Much fun to burn them.

[PADemD]

21. You missed one.

Civil War Reenactors.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Good for them

Seriously - if they want to 'wall paper' their living room with it - or 'paint' their house with a Confederate Flag - fine by me.

Just don't use it a place where you distribute Federal Tax dollars (A state house).

[lunasun]

6. I thought Amazon said that they would stop selling them too Guess not

The Confederate Flag Is Getting Some Interesting Reviews on Amazon
http://time.com/money/3931787/confederate-flag-amazon-reviews/

[Fred Sanders]

7. I like this Amazon review, which is still selling the Dixie Swastika:

“Is the other side of this flag a Nazi Swastika? I only have one flag pole to show my pride in defunct nations based on racism.”

[FSogol]

10. They just stopped selling them. Effective immediately.

[Jamastiene]

38. Yes, they said they were, but I just checked a few minutes ago

and there are tons of confederate flags and shirts with confederate flags on them too.

When Walmart did it, I double checked them too. They even removed shirts with it on it, right after they said they would. I'm talking minutes. It was all gone.

It's pretty bad when Walmart does the right thing and Amazon cannot be counted on to do the right thing even after they said they would. That really sucks.

[durablend]

8. So is Obama gonna take their confederate flags too? n/t

[SCantiGOP]

11. stupid, stupid. Nobody is talking about banning the flag

Buy it, fly it in your yard or at your business, just don't have it in a sovereign position on government property, which belongs to everyone.

One of the most effective arguments against legislators who want to have the flag accepted as a state symbol has been to ask them why they don't fly it on their own property. An honest answer would be, "Cause I'm just pandering to the worst of my base. I don't want to look like an idiot and turn off a lot of voters by having that on my property."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. An actual professional flag maker was producing that one in SC on the taxpayer's dime.

[KamaAina]

12. "a 3-by-5 foot polyester model made by Rhode Island Novelty"?

Rhode Island Novelty?

[CTyankee]

16. that was my reaction, too...I've never seen one for sale in CT but I guess I don't

shop much in novelty stores...

[PADemD]

22. Rhode Island Novelty is located in Fall River, MA.

[jmowreader]

25. Polyester?

A fella would think, if you wanted you a gen-yoo-wine Confederate Flag, you'd want it made out of cotton, picked by authentic Black People not newfangled mechanical contraptions made by that Northern rapscallion John Deere, rather than Yankee abominations like synthetic fabrics.

[asjr]

13. The buyers of the flag could cut them up and make underwear for the

Republican men.

[LanternWaste]

14. Same thing happened to Billy Beer in 1978

Same thing happened to Billy Beer in 1978. No accounting for collectors though-- as a vintage can is now worth $3.81. Quite the investment for the half-witted and under-educated.

[Martin Eden]

15. Most of these confederate flags are being bought for symbolic burning.

The racists have repented, and are burying the ashes of their regrets.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. People are hoarding them hoping to make a huge profit after a ban.

[Skittles]

29. what ban?

we just don't want it sanctioned by government

this is the gun humper mentality - these folk show how stupid they are all the time

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. They are kinda related.

[Skittles]

37. oh ABSOLUTELY

[YOHABLO]

31. Excuse me but that's really stupid. So let's see, the Nazi flag is no longer made? Hmmm

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. It's not just the flag....

[C Moon]

18. Maybe there's a shortage of toilet paper in Sparks Nevada.

[CanonRay]

20. Polyester? Really?

Now that fits

[Hugin]

23. Fine. Flood the market now.

This means they will be monetarily worthless after a couple of weeks for years to come.

[Tribalceltic]

24. Gone

A quick check of the website shows nothing found for "rebel" or confederate. The flag section does carry Rainbow, pirate and Puerto Rico Flags

Somebody woke up and smelled the coffee.

[SansACause]

26. How about the Mississippi flag?

It's got the Southern Swastika sewn right in.

[EL34x4]

40. As well as Rhodesian and Apartheid-era South African flags.

Still available.

[bunnies]

27. Of course. The fucking things are going to be everywhere.

Merikkka!!

[tenderfoot]

28. "That doesn’t mean Confederate flags will disappear. Many are made in China, ..."

"That doesn’t mean Confederate flags will disappear. Many are made in China, where there’s likely to be no pressure on manufacturers to suspend production."

So much delicious irony packed into two sentences.

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Let the racist trash out themselves

Who cares?

[RoccoR5955]

34. That's because we're all gonna have

a great big flag burning festival.

[Jamastiene]

39. Maybe that company can order millions of them and wait to cash in.

They will make some of it back, but will lose fucktons of money in a few days when the idiots who love that flag so much realize no one is coming for their flags.

[restorefreedom]

41. g-d that's sad n/t

[Sunlei]

43. good, RW Conservatives- please cover yourselves with confederate flags & tattoos so we know who to

avoid.

Last years, Republican Tea Party photos, wrapped in the Pro-Slavery Flags will look lovely in your 2016 campaigns.