Introduction The wife and I got a postcard in the mail for a free dinner at McCormick’s and Schmick’s if we listened to an alternative energy talk. While I’ve never been to a timeshare talk, I assumed it would be similar to this. Since my wife loves FREE, and I’ve thought about solar (yes, even here […]
Introduction Seeing as how I’ve been banned by 3 banks now – USBank, Barclays, and Chase, I figure I have enough data points to make a ranking of bank bans that would hurt the most TO ME. Let’s rank these in order of pain. #1 – American Express – “My puppy just died kind […]
Introduction You know how in reselling, you have to deal with the hassles of returns? Well, this would be similar to a ‘return’ in the MS world – when your VGC doesn’t activate. You know it’s a bad sign when the register takes a loooong time to print the receipt. Sure enough, one of the […]
Introduction Long time readers know I don’t blog about current deals. Sure, I’ll get blog hits, but the deal will die quicker, and when that happens, well, I’m as hurt like anyone else. So I don’t. I do like to do post-mortems on these deals so that you guys know what was possible, and if […]
Introduction While I’ve mostly stopped reselling in 2016, I’m also not going to turn down quick and easy money on a reselling opportunity. I actually had no idea the Oculus VR was even going on preorder until someone told me the day before the preorders were starting. I was able to buy one within minutes […]