Tangential Living

Copping on the Grey Market

knivek — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:27:58 +0000

I’m surprised how uncomfortable the majority of my friends are with dealing on the grey market. It’s a really good place to find bargains for items which are otherwise ludicrously expensive at retail. My trades over the past four months are detailed in the table below.

Item	Purchase Price	Price Sold	Market Value⁴
Call of Duty 5¹	–	$40	$68
Metal Gear Solid 4	$40	$35	$68
Nintendo DS+R4²	$208	$140	$208
Planet Earth (new)	$40	–	$80
DualShock 3 (new)	$40	–	$62
Folklore	$40	$40	$68
Killzone 2³ (new)	$50	–	$80
Street Fighter IV	$50	–	$80

Totals	$468	$255	$714

Notes

I got CoD5 free during a Christmas promo when I purchased my PS3
I bought my NDS + R4 two years ago at full retail price, and decided I didn’t use it enough. Thus I sold it before the DSi rendered my unit obsolete
Killzone 2 was pre-ordered on amazon – not really grey market, but it was well under MSRP
Market Value includes taxes

As can be seen, I’ve been able to obtain items for a minimum 35% off retail prices. I’ve also managed to re-coup most of my expenditures through re-selling items I have lost interest in. My highest loss was my NDS, sold at 67% of it’s initial value. However, considering how infrequently i used it + 2 years depreciation + new model being launched… that’s not a bad price to let it go.

My latest victory purchase has been SFIV. Retails for $69.99 + taxes at most brick & mortar stores. The game has actually been out of stock for the ps3 since it’s release last month due to it’s extremely high demand. Copped it for $50 – perfect condition.

Of course, there are scammers out there, so it’s best to use common sense when dealing through Craigslist and Kijiji. If you don’t know your product, don’t buy it grey. If you don’t know how to deal with strangers, don’t buy it grey.

I may come back to this topic sometime later regarding how to avoid being an ass-hat when trading on the grey market.

Posted in Jawn Copping Tagged: game, grey market, shopping

Why I <3 John Mayer

knivek — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:59:48 +0000

Because he does hip hop too.

Now go back and listen to Daughters, bitches.

Posted in Random Tagged: John Mayer

All I Do Is Party, High, High, High, High

knivek — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:36 +0000

Decadence 2009 @ The Guvernment/Kool Haus

The Bloody Beetroots
MSTRKRFT
Crookers
Steve Aoki

9pm – 7am: One hell of an epic party.

I thought Aoki @ Starlight was good. He completely out-did himself at the Kool Haus.

Toronto’s first big electro party – I’m hoping it will be the first of many.

To end off… they spun this track in some form at least 6 times that night… dang hipsters love their WOOT WOOTS!

Posted in Events Tagged: Bloody Beetroots, concert, Crookers, Decadence, Kool Haus, MSTRKRFT, steve aoki

I’m not dead.

knivek — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:09:30 +0000

I’m busy processing pictures and such of my long weekend, and will post something more substantial later today… Possibly…

The reason for my long absence can be blamed on Killzone 2 again…

That’s right. I’m top 1%, bitches. SUCK IT, ADAM.

Now to get on with my normal life….

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Killzone 2

Oh Hallelujah, Our Problems are Solved. We have Banana Bread.

knivek — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:43:03 +0000

Last weekend, Melissa tried to domesticate me by attempting to teach me how to bake. Unfortunately for her, I quickly surpassed her culinary skills and, the padawan became the master.

We started off with Chicken Alfredo for dinner.

It was pretty damn good… But being the lazy people we were, we spent the rest of the night watching TV.

For breakfast we made banana bread – the best bread since sliced bread. This is where I invented the most efficient way for mashing a banana.

Melissa bet I couldn’t crack an egg with one hand… pffft.

Tiger became really curious and/or needed attention, and decided he wanted to be apart of the team too.

Instead, he became part of the bread.

Next we decided to make apple crumble… which also turned out damn delicious.

Teddy approves.

At the end of the day… I’m almost Pro at Cooking.

Posted in Life Tagged: apple crumble, banana bread, chicken alfredo, cooking, food