Well, as I posted last time, I had come across a great deal at Best Buy on Logitech diNovo Edge keyboards. Originally sold for 200 each (and still sold for 160 on Amazon.com), many people across the nation were finding them as cheap as 39.99 due to BestBuy discontinuing the product in their stores.
I bought two of these at the Lynchburg store. (They believed me about the eMachine keyboard mixup thankfully.) I was able to secure them for 39.99 with my photo copied receipt I got from a guy on SlickDeals. (I didn’t even print it out…I showed it to her on my PDA.)
Having accomplished this on my lunch break, I quickly listed one of the keyboards on Amazon.com for 100 dollars. Within 45 minutes it sold. Making $60 on your lunch break without even trying, makes one want to make more money without trying. Over the course of work Monday I called several BestBuys in Virginia and North Carolina and managed to locate 3 of them at the Charlottesville store.
I sent out an email looking for friends who might want to tag along on a road trip to Charlottesville. Shanna volunteered.
As my car has a bad water pump and pump more coolant on the ground than through my radiator, I thought it prudent to pay her 20 bucks and use her car. This turned out to be a very bad mistake.
About 5 minutes outside of Lynchburg and 5 minutes after we had purchased 20 dollars of gas, her car officially died. The engine siezed. The transmission bled all over the ground. It was not a pretty picture. And let me tell you…it felt good to know that I was responsible!
Needless to say, I did not make it to Charlottesville that night.
However, I did successfully make the journey the next night. I purchased two keyboards and used my receipt from my last purchase to get them to mark it down from 139.99 (the price they were selling them at) to 39.99. (The manager on duty did a double take when she saw what she was approving, but went ahead and approved it anyway. I was pretty nervous they were going to deny me the courtesy price match.)
It turns out my car stays perfectly cooled at highway speeds. I did not have to put more water in in Charlottesville.
(Shanna, if you are reading this: I’m sorry. Also, I want my gas back.)
#1 by Shanna at September 30th, 2007
you want your gas back, i want my car back! also, i do not think your are responsible for its demise.