Comments on: Make It $310!

By: My Recent Purchases on Cheap Stuff - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:34:38 +0000

By: Amazon.com Buy-and-Sell Update - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:37:47 +0000

[...] Last month, I spent more than $300 on stuff that I have no intention for my own use. The ten items purchased on Buy.com throughout October are all buy-and-sell electronic devices (flash drives, wireless adapters, router, hard drive enclosure, and headset, etc.) Except a Bluetooth headset that I later found that was excluded from regular sellers, I have put all of them up for sale on Amazon.com and the sales went pretty well. So far six of them have already been sold, making a profit of $77 in total. Since all of them have mail-in-rebate, the profit is the number assuming I will eventually get the rebates back. [...]

By: October 2006 Score Card — Part I: Expenses - The Sun’s Financial Diary - Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:38:42 +0000

[...] Buy-and-sell: Believe it or not, I spent more than $300 this month along on items that I want to sell on Amazon.com, largely due to the $10 off $30 promotion at Buy.com. Since all items I bought have rebates, the actual cost is much lower than what it appeared on paper. I don't know if I can eventually sell all of them (so far sold only one) or not, but it won't be too bad if some get stuck with me, as long as I get the rebates back (there are people really hate rebates, for example, FMF, but I don't). [...]