Monday, September 22, 2008

I'm about to make $200 for 30 minutes of work

So check this out. Here is how I'm about to make a cool two hundo for insanely little work: The best baseball team in the world...The Chicago Cubs (who just clinched their division -- GO CUBS all the way babyyyyy!) umm, anyway, as I was saying... Last week, Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter. This hasn't happened for the Cubs in decades.

On their website, cubs.com, I saw this special offer -- $20 for unused "souvenier" tickets from the no hit game. What a ripoff! I first thought to myself... then slowly, it dawned on me... I wonder what people are paying for these on eBay. A quick check showed that they were selling for $40 each!!! I immediately bought 10 tickets. wham-bam-thankyou ma'm.

so here's the time breakdown:

checking price of tix on eBay: 2 min

taking a photo and loading it on computer: 5 min

listing item on eBay: 10 min

shipping item after sold: 20 min

okay, so that's 37 minutes... but still, not bad for $200!!

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