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Heh, cool - I was going to submit this myself after it bought a few more items, but I guess I was beaten to it. Any questions, or suggestions for smarter ways to select items to buy, feel free :)
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How about a $1 bill priced at $2 w/free shipping? From every angle, it would be an interesting experiment. From the consumer's standpoint, it challenges the notion of free shipping . From a seller's standpoint, it challenges the notion of easy money (would you really want to stuff a thousand envelopes if the item sold well?). From the middleman's standpoint, it might help to identify bots (or possibly even money laun…
You just gave me an idea, but I don't have time to implement it so I'll give it away. Maybe if someone makes money with it, they could sell me my bill. $1 bills priced at $2 w/free shipping.. the hook, the bills are listed by birthdates contained in the serial number. heh
http://coins.shop.ebay.com/Federal-Reserve-Notes-/40029/i.ht...
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You just gave me an idea, but I don't have time to implement it so I'll give it away. Maybe if someone makes money with it, they could sell me my bill. $1 bills priced at $2 w/free shipping.. the hook, the bills are listed by birthdates contained in the serial number. heh
Go with $2 bills at $3 w/ free shipping. Some people would order it just to have $2 bill.
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Unfortunately you are not supposed to send money via the USPS.
You could send a check instead, payable to CASH. Although, your bank might get suspicious if hundreds of people start cashing small checks against your account.
Heh, cool - I was going to submit this myself after it bought a few more items, but I guess I was beaten to it. Any questions, or suggestions for smarter ways to select items to buy, feel free :)
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Go with $2 bills at $3 w/ free shipping. Some people would order it just to have $2 bill.
You can probably just ask for $2 bills at a bank. Last I checked, they still mint brand new ones to replace damaged ones removed from circulation.
We tried buying them a thousand at a time from banks. One time a manager came out to talk to us about it and asked what we wanted them for. We explained and his response was, "So we're going to get them all back."
Just a small announce on HN, and the site is down. Why does most blog software fail at simple tasks like delivering static content? Apart from comments and quick corrections, blog articles _are_ nothing more than static content. And I'd be happy to not see any comments due to high server load, as long as I can read the article.
It's one reason why letting someone manage all that for you makes sense. (Shameless plug) At Weebly we spent a lot of time making sure that our blogging engine is very optimized. We have free users -- they don't pay us any money, we don't place any ads on their site, and they even use their own domain -- hit the front page of Digg/Reddit/HN all the time, and we can easily handle it in stride.
I am tempted to write a bot to submit $1 items that his bot is likely to buy.
How about a $1 bill priced at $2 w/free shipping? From every angle, it would be an interesting experiment. From the consumer's standpoint, it challenges the notion of free shipping . From a seller's standpoint, it challenges the notion of easy money (would you really want to stuff a thousand envelopes if the item sold well?). From the middleman's standpoint, it might help to identify bots (or possibly even money laun…
You should see dollar bills purchased for hundreds of dollars at least.
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