Excluding the drama surrounding a certain video game rescued from a bad situation that is.
I put a bid in on a broken Joust on Ebay. I found it at the last minute and I could have sworn the Ebay mileage calculator said 345 miles, which is a 5 hour trip each way. Long trip, but doable in a day. So, I bid accordingly based on the cost to go get it. Well, I won it at virtually my full bid price. Cool. Then I found out it is 200 miles or so further away. My 5 hour each way trip is now closer to a 9 hour each way trip (according to Google maps).
I'm still going to go get it, but I am p*ssed at myself for not looking at it a little closer. By the time I rent a pickup, gas it up and a hotel somewhere on the road, my $100 broken Joust is going to be a $400 broken Joust. So fixing it and flipping it is going to be a break even venture at best. D*mn.
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I put a bid in on a broken Joust on Ebay. I found it at the last minute and I could have sworn the Ebay mileage calculator said 345 miles, which is a 5 hour trip each way. Long trip, but doable in a day. So, I bid accordingly based on the cost to go get it. Well, I won it at virtually my full bid price. Cool. Then I found out it is 200 miles or so further away. My 5 hour each way trip is now closer to a 9 hour each way trip (according to Google maps).
I'm still going to go get it, but I am p*ssed at myself for not looking at it a little closer. By the time I rent a pickup, gas it up and a hotel somewhere on the road, my $100 broken Joust is going to be a $400 broken Joust. So fixing it and flipping it is going to be a break even venture at best. D*mn.
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