I made about a hundred and seventy pounds on ebay recently. It’s promptly burnt a hole in my pocket, hence the SLUG I mentioned the other day.
(It arrived. It’s small. I haven’t got round to plugging it in yet :/ )
I’ve fancied a 54mbps WLAN for ages too so I thought I’d go all out and get some cards and a WRT54G while I was at it
It’s a 10/100 4-port switch and does SPI and NAT, supports dyndns.org so that’s most of what I need. (I kill hard disks and PSUs at a scary rate, so solid state network kit looks very attractive compared to a standalone *NIX server at the moment )
It amazes me how little reality checking goes on when bidding on ebay.
A WRT54G is 43 quid on amazon.co.uk, including VAT and shipping. Brand new with a 1 year manufacturers warranty. So why do they regularly go for 50-60 quid on ebay??
I thought I could make a fast buck. What’s wrong with this picture? :
- buy one on amazon
- list it on ebay
- if it hasn’t made me a profit with an hour to go, pull the auction and send it back to amazon for a full refund
Mentioned it to Ceri, he pointed out you could just put the listing on before you even bother to buy it from amazon and just let the guy wait for it. I bow before his superior bastardry.
Why, thank you