10/27/12 Purchase Summary

Today was the first day I went garage saling in more than a month and a half and it was rather disappointing, for me at least. My friend with whom  I went saling bought many items.

I spent a total of $1 on three items: a computer mouse for my parents ($0.25); Upper Hand, a board game that combines Bridge and Scrabble from the early 1980's ($0.50); and a wireless internet camera ($0.25). I bricked the camera during installation. I have no idea how or why it happened but it's not a big deal; I didn't really have a use for it. I did see an item I did want to buy; a guy had a big box of NES stuff that I wanted to resell. He wanted $75 for the set so I didn't even try to work him down.

Today was pretty much a letdown.

Yet Another Broken Record

I've been really bad about updating recently. I haven't been saling recently and I haven't had any great resales (until today), so I haven't had anything to talk about the last few weeks. That changes today and probably only today.

I did set a new record today, selling the TI-83+ graphing calculator I bought June 23rd for $60. Seeing how I only spent $0.50 on it, my profit was 11900%, beating my previous record of 9900% for my old metal detector.

I have done quite well with the $2.65 challenge. So far I've spent $2 and resold $1 worth of items. From that $2, I've made exactly $100: $40 for the first TI-83 I bought and $60 today. Even if I were to retire from saling and selling today; I've still made almost a 3700% profit on my initial $2.65.