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Hey! I have money! Cool!


By Q-Bert - Posted on 06 November 2009

Not to put too much of a point on it...Not to put too much of a point on it...
I told you guys that I have sold Virtual Machine templates for the past 3 years on an ecommerce site that I run (well, *used* to run; I had to shut it down in June because someone hacked it and I couldn't be bothered to fix it. That's what happens when you run old software...).

Well, on November each year, is when I split the loot with my business partner. My part is $1000+ ooooyeah.


I was a cool experiment: I took about 1 week 4 years ago to create about 17 different Virtual Machine templates (using Open Source distributions) for Citrix' Xen Server technology. I then opened a quick ecommerce site that only took Paypal, and made them available.

The first year it made me over $3K. It ramped down after that since I never bothered to actually make updated versions of the templates.

So, my problem is that I have $1K of paypal money to burn, and none of the Ottawa hardware websites will take Paypal. Booooo.

Had a chat with Blackwalt yesterday and he asks me why don't I purchase from NCIX.com ?

"They take paypal ??"

"Yes, they do."

Hell yeah.

Let's take a look at the damage this morning:
That last item was more expensive than the first item....That last item was more expensive than the first item....

Unfortunately, it's a 2-day wait for Paypal to confirm the payment to NCIX, and then 10 days shipping via Puro. I guess I won't have this sweet setup for the Lan Party next week :-( Also, I need to find a cheap HDMI+digitalaudio XBox cable before I can hook all of that up.

The RAM and HD are so that my Powerbook Pro gets some luvin' too since I won't be changing it up this year.

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You should have gotten this stuff from BestDirect (where I got my Turtle Beach Headphones) and you could have saved enough money for something else!

ASUS VK266H 25.5IN Widescreen LCD Monitor: NCIX - 394.99
Best Direct - 366.30

Griffin Powermate USB Multimedia Controller: NCIX - 47.52
Best Direct - 40.60

Crucial PC2-5300 2GB 1X2GB DDR2-667 200PIN SODIMM Memory: NCIX - 44.99
Best Direct - 43.90

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 320GB 2.5IN SATA: NCIX - 73.78
Best Direct - 66.00

Turtle Beach Headphone: NCIX - 199
Best Direct - 167.86

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And they take Paypal, or just credit cards ?

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n/t

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Next time, we will invite you to Milestones.

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Milestones one of my favorite PUA locations...

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Aku's been here long enough for us to have 'picked' that up.

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