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In re the "I am stupid and I bought the wrong Core 2 Duo CPU to upgrade my Mac Mini" saga, I did put the CPU up on EBay.

And made more than I spent on it.

In between the time I bought it and the time the auction closed, the supplies for the E6600 (even which, it turns out, does not overclock as well as one of the less-expensive chips, if you're stupid and cheap and into that kind of thing) dried up all over the place and the prices of the remaining chips jumped up an average of about $40-50.

Kat is astonished that I have this kind of luck, and I have no idea what causes it. Delicious Monster's Library (otherwise pretty much a piece of crap) uncovered this for me some time ago, when I scanned in most of my DVDs, had it grab current data for all of them from Amazon.com, and then sorted by "current value".

I had bought a copy of a movie I remember seeing and enjoying in the theater when I was a kid, that I knew was a bad film, but I wanted to see it anyway. It was Flash Gordon (with Sam Jones not speaking his own role), it was under $15, and it didn't even ship in a keep case, but rather, one of those awful cardboard cases.

And I sold it in three weeks on Amazon.com for $150 after watching it once. And believe me, once was enough.

I also had a stack of all of the Godzilla movies on Rhino-records-quality DVDs, most of which I hadn't opened but thought,"Hey, I should get all those since they're $5 apiece!"

$85 for one of them, the others basically worthless.

I can do this with regular investments as well, but it's much more hit and miss, and only works if I sit right on top of them, which is why I like taking several-month-long vacations where I don't look for work, since I make more doing that than I would if I took a "real" job. However, it's boring, and it's not what I do anyway.

Anyway, it's a nice little surprise when things like this work out and I'm saved from my foolishness. The thing that keeps me from using Amazon.com Marketplace and EBay is the packing, shipping, etc., that is an annoying hassle. That's why I have two now-completely-worthless G4 PowerBooks sitting around here, a stack of T40s, and a bunch of Airport Expresses that I'll never use. (Maybe in the new house, though, who knows.)

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