My Recent Purchases on Cheap Stuff
By Sun
I have posted a lot of deals in the past month or so time that I felt were good for a little amount of money. Actually, not just I think those are good buys, I bought most of them myself as well. Here’s a list of my recent purchases:
- Canon PC160 Personal Copier, $5 AMIR (after mail-in-rebate);
- Kensington PilotMouse Optical Wireles, free AMIR;
- Creative Zen Nano 512MB MP3 Player, $10 AMIR;
- Power Up MP3/WMA Player and USB Flash Drive, $9.99 AMIR;
- Norton AntiVirus 2007 3-user pack, -$9 AMIR
- ACP-EP 1GB Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive, free AMIR;
- ACP-EP 2GB USB 2.0 Forum Recon Style SnowDrive Flash Drive, free AMIR;
- ACP-EP Memory 2GB Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive, $4.95 AMIR;
- Kingston 2GB DataTraveler USB 2.0 Flash Drive, $6.95 AMIR(*);
- Epson R340 Stylus photo printer, $9.99 AMIR;
- Sony multi-format DVD burner, $9.99 AMIR;
- D-Link DI-624 Xtreme G Wireless Router, $6.98 AMIR(*);
- Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro Webcam, $5.00 AMIR;
- TRENDnet 108Mbps 802.11g MIMO Wireless PC Card, $9.93 AMIR;
In total, I spent $450, 50% more than what I spend in October (back then I thought I probably will never spend as much any more). I didn’t really need all of these, but I thought I should take advantage of the $20 Google Checkout discount offered at Buy.com before it’s gone. In fact, I probably won’t even consider most of the above purchases If there wasn’t the discount ($20 makes a lot of difference for stuff like these). I don’t think for all Among them, the most expensive one is the Epson printer with a face price of $109.99 and it’s one of the items that I want to keep for my own use. The other is the Canon copier I bought today. For the rest, I probably will try to sell them on Amazon.com and use the proceeds to fund my daughter’s 529 plan. Actually, two of them (*) were already sold one day after I listed them on Amazon. Even if I can’t sell all of them, I feel OK with the purchases as long as I can get the rebates. So far, the rebates worked out pretty well to me. If there’s no problem with the rebates, which also make lot of nice products much more affordable, why should I hate them?
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Wow..thats some list of stuff
You must be having some kind of a excel sheet or something similar to track all those rebates..like when was it posted, when to check on the rebate status and such.
Sun,
How do you then re-sell the item on Amazon? For most of the rebates do you not need the original UPC. And if you cut that out the original box in which it was packed gets damaged. Or maybe you have a differnt method?
John: Yes, almost all the items I sold on Amazon were bought with rebates. When I receive the item, I either peel off the UPC label, or just cut a small hole on the package without open the package. I try to minimize any damage to the package so it’s still new. When I list the item, I explicitly say the UPC label is removed so people know I have done something with the item. Other than that, it’s new. So I haven’t received any complains about the package.