Bargain Basement

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Bargain Basement

1. A company that sells very cheap and often low quality items.

2. An informal term describing the prices at a bargain basement.

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A good Cellar is not a bargain basement, but a bargain basement can be a good seller.

Bringback the basements

Gia Kenner, a 23-year-old graduate student at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, appreciates the bargain basement prices of eBay because it "doesn't cramp [her clothing] style." She purchased a designer handbag for about $300 less than the retail cost.

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Brides-to-be can take advantage of bargain basement prices, all in the name of charity.

Be a bargain bride!

Despite bargain basement prices--most assets can be acquired for little more than a buyer's promise to assume the company's debt--macroeconomic and political uncertainty remains a major deterrent.

Double dipping: Argentine entrepreneurs scoop up their old shops from exhausted foreigners. (Strategy)

Hiba said he plans to open The Bargain Cellar in January in what was once the bargain basement of Campbell-Bell on the downtown Fayetteville square.

Hiba Sells Departure, Plans Bargain Cellar. (NW Journal)

The American business community seems to be recognizing that people who wear corduroy also think corduroy, and those who have bargain-basement wardrobes also tend to have bargain basement intellects.

Standing Tall (and Better Dressed)

This is the bargain basement. She is in lingerie, looking at the petticoats.

In the bargain basement

From the east, as you leave the noise and bustle of the run-down multi-racial market area and Broadway's theatre land (now bargain basement shopping land) you are drawn to the square by the vibrant colours and stark geometric forms of the architectural elements.

Square milieu

Repetition no longer means luxury and excess, but points us instead to the bargain basement. Variety has ceased to represent a range of available options, and now signals at best the inclusiveness of the collector's eye, at worst the pressure of necessity.

Lisa Milroy

This buyer's catch accounts for the bargain basement price of the well-known, 2.4 million square foot Manhattan landmark, completed in 1931.

Empire State Building on the block

DAVID MOYES hopes his end-of-window supermarket sweep does not see West Ham rooting in the bargain basement.