It appears that I was overcharged for my mouse pad. I paid $9.99 which I thought seemed a little high. Now I find that they are selling for $4.99. "Your product: Staples Fashion Mouse Pad Cityscape$4.99." Product is fine and I like the city skyline picture. Altho it's a small amount of $$ it's the principle of the thing.
I had bought a cork mouse pad but it did not work out well. Bought this one and it works just great. Mouse does not "skip" as it did on the cork one. And the saying on the pad is super nice.