Roomba 790 for sale at Staples (use up those $20 promo GC’s)

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For all my new Big Habitat followers, this post is for YOU!  Thanks to BH for reminding me my 2 promo $20 GC’s were expiring on 5/10.  Not sure what I was waiting for there.  Anyway, Staples has this bad boy on sale right now.  You can click on this link.  Let’s do the math:

  • $440 – Cost
  • – $25 – $25 off $75 coupon from the interwebs
  • +$35.69 – 8.6% Tax (I wish I had 6.5% tax like BH)
  • = $450.68 Merchandise total
  • +$5 – for said $25 off $75 coupon
  • -$22 – 5% ShopDiscover
  • -$22 – 5% Staples Rewards
  • -$40 – Using 2 of those promo EGC’s
  • -15.80 – Valuation of ~1,050 Chase Ink points (you charged $210.68 on your Ink card, right?)  at 1.5c per UR
  • = $355.88

Selling the thing on Amazon

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  • $570 – price on Amazon
  • -$10 – rough estimate to ship this thing to Amazon
  • -$98 – Amazon fees
  • $462 – Total Net

And there you have it folks, a cool one of these in your digital pocket:

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4 comments on “Roomba 790 for sale at Staples (use up those $20 promo GC’s)

  1. It’s worth noting that the sales rank on this particular model is quite low. It’ll sell but if too many jump on this, it’ll take a while.

    1. Good point Al. I think worst case, you profit only $50 instead of the $100 (don’t think you have to go that steep though). But the point was to get rid of the promo GC’s with a bit of a profit instead of buying needless things, which I would have done.

  2. Haha, I assumed all the BH readers were used to this kind of deal, so I wanted to give them a BH-worthy deal so they stick around past the AMEX 150K code.

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