On 12/18/2014 1:12 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>
>> I am looking at Amazon where according to the search terms a Bundt pan is in
>> fact a tube pan.
>
> You're obiously a net shopping newbie... when searching on the net for
> "tube pan" ALL pans with a tube will come up including anything
> remotely related (perhaps an inner tube, tube socks, even books about
> tubing), you were obviously never in retail or you'd know that's
> marketing.
>
Sheldon, she says she worked at KMart. This was probably before the
advent of online shopping and certainly before Amazon anything.

Anyone who does a computer search for anything should know all sorts of
unrelated crap comes up. You have to filter your query to weed out the
garbage. As you say, it's advertising.

Looking at images does show bundt as well as tube pans. But even I, who
doesn't bake cakes, know they aren't the same thing. Someone else
described a tube pan as the pan made for angel food cake. That's
exactly right and it sure isn't a bundt pan.

>> These prices don't look cheap to me. Cheap to me is $3
>> for a pan. These are nowhere close.
>
> I was in town this morning to get my mail so since I pass the thrift
> shop I stopped in... they had four different tube pans, $1 per, all
> very serviceable. I bought two very nice crib blankies for my outside
> cats, 50¢ each, they're in the washing machine now. Thrift shops are
> a great resource, especially for housewares.
>
Yep, thrift shops would be a good place to look. Even in my small area
there's a Goodwill store and a Salvation Army shop. There are probably
some smaller thrifts scattered around, too.

Jill