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Markets in Everything -- alibi edition
Our very first installment of Markets in Everything dealt with fake alibis for philandering husbands. Now the concept has been carried further:
For $500, nobody will believe you weren't sunning yourself last week on Copacabana Beach, just before you trekked through the Amazon rain forest and slept in a thatched hut. Hey! That's you, arms outstretched like Kate Winslet on the bow of the Titanic, on top of Corcovado!
Persey Tours was barely keeping the bill collectors at bay before it started offering fake vacations last year. Now it's selling 15 a month — providing ersatz ticket stubs, hotel receipts, photos with clients' images superimposed on famous landmarks, a few souvenirs for living room shelves.
If the customer is an errant husband who wants his wife to believe he's on a fishing trip, Persey offers not just photos of him on the river, but a cellphone with a distant number, a lodge that if anyone calls will swear the husband is checked in but not available, and a few dead fish on ice.
Thanks to Pablo Halkyard for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 11, 2006 at 05:48 PM in Economics | Permalink
Comments
International trips would be harder to fake because of passport stamps. Persey Tours certainly isn't going to counterfeit those.
Posted by: Peter at Jul 12, 2006 9:39:21 AM
Here in Wisconsin it is common practice for errant husbands to go Up Nort during hunting season, but to spend time entirely at the tavern. There is a certain amount of seasonal prostitution rumored. It is not uncommon for suspicious wives to pack something unforgettable in the rifle case as a test.
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