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Potentially Throwing Away Items with Value

Alan Yu — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:59:28 +0000

Today my brother was telling me that he found this very old video game buried away in some boxes as he was cleaning up. It was indeed very old, but nonetheless recognizable enough where people like collectors would actually buy. To my surprise his initial reaction was to simply throw it away into the garbage can as to him it was just junk now.

My immediate response of course is that he should just try to sell it as it does have value. It didn’t take much convincing too which was the fortunate part. Throwing away items like these into the garbage can is not even on my mind if it seems like it is something that is semi usable. Example, even if I found say an old lamp I would be inclined to see if I could sell it first.

If in doubt, just keep it and ask around first I’d say. It’s better than potentially throwing away something that could be valued for hundreds of dollars.

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Banking On Sales And Discounts To Repeat

Alan Yu — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:19:41 +0000

I was looking at a flyer as I knew that a particular place always had a no tax sale once in awhile where I would hold off making any major purchases until this happens. Sure enough, it is coming up again. I am always surprised when more people don’t take advantage of events like these. Especially when they consistently come up after a certain amount of days.

Like with this you can easily save hundreds of dollars a year by simply buying your large purchases at these events. All it takes is a little bit of planning and some people even take it further such as buying gifts all at once where you would save a lot of money as a result. Same thing goes for coupons where many companies consistently release certain ones at specific times of the year. It’s there to save you money and so you may as well take advantage of it.

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Patience With Digital Transmissions To Save Money

Alan Yu — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:58:31 +0000

So the other day I had to give someone a whole load of files and so I thought it would be better to put it on a disc and to provide it to him. Thinking about it, I could have uploaded it onto a server and then have the person download it. Granted that it may take awhile for both sides since there are a ton of files, but it would be a money saver.

Realistically time wise it can be the same too where you first have to burn the item and then physically bring it to them. Or when it comes to uploading or downloading the item both sides can just leave their computers idle as they send or receive the data. At times like that it’s good when the lazy option is super expensive as it will force you to do it the slower but cheaper way. I guess we just get spoiled a bit that say the disc is only a few cents and so it is no big deal.

It should make you wonder too like with this example where if you spent more money getting a faster connection could you end up saving more over the year where you may not have to use as many discs for example?

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Buying Equipment Independently For Services

Alan Yu — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:50:29 +0000

I was talking to a person who was still renting his cable modem from his service provider here he paid about $5/month for it. Apparently he has been doing it for years too. That then got me curious as to why he didn’t just outright buy it in the beginning as you could pretty much recoup the cost after a year or so. He mentioned that the modem would have cost about $120 if he decided to buy it which seemed steep.

I was then looking at the modem model and not surprisingly the exact same one could be obtained for about half the price at various retail stores. This holds true many times where if a service provider requires you to have an item to utilize the service it can often be cheaper to simply buy it from a third party source. It’s just that a lot of people would rather not go through the trouble in trying to locate it.

Even something as simple as entering the exact item you are looking for on a search engine can steer you the right way in finding a good deal.

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Checking For Universal Price Drops

Alan Yu — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:10:37 +0000

Today I was reading how a lineup of certain products from a company were getting a price cut of about 40%. This is pretty substantial considering the products normally ranged about $600+. What I noticed is that not every store had the new prices in affect. However, for the ones that did I noticed that they advertised the price drop as just a crazy sale that you should take advantage of now. Of course, this gets a lot of people to purchase stuff on the spot.

At times like this is usually why whenever I see something that is drastically lower cost wise I always try to research whether it is a result of a universal price drop. Because obviously the deal isn’t as great as you think it may be and you can probably hold out for an even better deal for when it truly goes on sale.

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