Friday, January 30, 2009

How To Get A Free 50 in. TV

I recently did price comparisons at circuit city and ebay and walmart, and it turns out that circuit city prices are still the highest prices around even with them supposedly marked down 30%. I looked at games(all systems), TV's, entertainment centers, sound systems, computers. So the following is not usable information.
Circuit city is going out of business. So when the TV's are marked down to 50% off then you buy 2 of them and sell one of them on ebay, effectively getting one of the tv's for free. But to make sure that is sells for full price on ebay you should buy the best of the best. Luckily though the best of the best which is also the most expensive is the last item that sells in the store. Because I was noticing at circiut city that the small tv's and the cheapest good tv's were the first to sell out so far. But they still have plenty of the huge and high performance tv's. And they will be there until the end when the prices are marked down the most.
This is why it's always good to have a reserve of liquid oportunity investment cash lying around for just such an occasion as this.
This is a high risk proposition so you have to have a high profit margin to balance the risk. It may be possible to loose some money even if not much, so you need a high profit margin just in case.
An added side effect of doing this is that if you use a credit card to buy a tv and sell it on ebay for what you bought it at, then you are basically turning credit into cash.
As they say everything must go and people like me are the scavengers taking advantage of the left over scraps of a dying business, like a vulture in the african wilderness.

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