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
- $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:
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.
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.
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.
Amazing! (too many somersaults for me to do tho’) 🙂