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[ozzgx4]

He's a dealer.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by masta.g.86

Kaizen mentioned buying "broken" items on ebay.

Yup, it's the thrill of gambling but the 4870 is legit new and so is the hard disks and bluray.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

Yup, it's the thrill of gambling but the 4870 is legit new and so is the hard disks and bluray.

I don't get you John. You're constantly jumping between being piss poor and buying the whole damn farm.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

I don't get you John. You're constantly jumping between being piss poor and buying the whole damn farm.

I needed a new pc but wanted to have fun.

Yesterday, I was thinking the same of Eli. He's good with his cash, fixes his own assets like cars and computers, saves regularly, has great personal responsibility and worked for his own stuff when he was younger

.......then wants to spend a big chunk of bankroll on a holiday?

It's akin to this:
People who are fit and healthy don't eat burgers from mcdonalds regularly

I don't go out blowing money all the time, I'm cheap at best.
At one time, I spent every piece of credit available to me. Spending thousands on guitars and games and pc parts but what happened?

I had to sell them all to pay my rent at very unfair prices. Amazing, rare, wonderful things, all sold for measly sums of cash. Pride then a fall. That is why, to this day I have 1 guitar, a £80 strat copy I modded when I was 16, clothes that are 6 years old or more and take the bus. I buy no razors or deodorant, highlights, make-up or any other amenities like massages or manicures.

My spendthrift ways were bad enough to cost me a business. Imagine the cost of partying 7 days a week and not holding back on cash. You'd need 5 full time jobs to cover that kind of spending.

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[Silenus]

No deodorant?
Why do people think their sweaty smell is good?

IT IS NOT.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by Silenus

No deodorant?
Why do people think their sweaty smell is good?

IT IS NOT.

There's this little thing called washing.

Totally stops the whole smelling thing dead (with either vinegar or chemical hospital hand stripper.)

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

I needed a new pc but wanted to have fun.

Yesterday, I was thinking the same of Eli. He's good with his cash, fixes his own assets like cars and computers, saves regularly, has great personal responsibility and worked for his own stuff when he was younger

.......then wants to spend a big chunk of bankroll on a holiday?

It's akin to this:
People who are fit and healthy don't eat burgers from mcdonalds regularly

I don't go out blowing money all the time, I'm cheap at best.
At one time, I spent every piece of credit available to me. Spending thousands on guitars and games and pc parts but what happened?

I had to sell them all to pay my rent at very unfair prices. Amazing, rare, wonderful things, all sold for measly sums of cash. Pride then a fall. That is why, to this day I have 1 guitar, a £80 strat copy I modded when I was 16, clothes that are 6 years old or more and take the bus. I buy no razors or deodorant, highlights, make-up or any other amenities like massages or manicures.

My spendthrift ways were bad enough to cost me a business. Imagine the cost of partying 7 days a week and not holding back on cash. You'd need 5 full time jobs to cover that kind of spending.

Yet you speak of gambling? Cheap people don't do that.

Broken cars and broken graphics cards aren't quite the same thing. You can't just head over the local mechanic and order a replacement part for a graphics card like you can for a car. What Eli does is essentially restoration, he sees potential and fixes it. He doesn't gamble on possibly lost causes whereas with a graphics card if it's broken it's unlikely anyone who's not involved in their development can restore them so the chance you're throwing money away there is pretty high. Not to mention you don't need the cards and they depreciate way faster than cars do so even if you do fix em it's not like selling them will be a huge winfall whereas Eli's returns are generally pretty good.

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[Silenus]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

There's this little thing called washing.

Totally stops the whole smelling thing dead (with either vinegar or chemical hospital hand stripper.)

Good thing they have showers in the office and that you do very small physical activity.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

There's this little thing called washing.

Totally stops the whole smelling thing dead (with either vinegar or chemical hospital hand stripper.)

There's also a damn hot day where the second you get out of the shower you start sweating again.
What are you gonna do on those days? just spend the whole day in the shower?

And on that point, does the cost of the deo outweigh the cost of frequent washing (water charges, electricity for the Gieser (so you can have warm water), time lost, soap and other materials used)?

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

Yet you speak of gambling? Cheap people don't do that.

Broken cars and broken graphics cards aren't quite the same thing. You can't just head over the local mechanic and order a replacement part for a graphics card like you can for a car. What Eli does is essentially restoration, he sees potential and fixes it. He doesn't gamble on possibly lost causes whereas with a graphics card if it's broken it's unlikely anyone who's not involved in their development can restore them so the chance you're throwing money away there is pretty high. Not to mention you don't need the cards and they depreciate way faster than cars do so even if you do fix em it's not like selling them will be a huge winfall whereas Eli's returns are generally pretty good.

bank in/ bank out

I buy 4 cards for the price of 1, 3 work and are resold for 60% of 1 card . Card 4 is also sold for buttons

All the stuff I buy is simple software issues or points to it. ATI cards are really common to cold boot black, it's a motherboard thing. There's also a very common issue of ATI always going black when windows starts, driver issue.

Buy a bunch of these cards and you're quite safe.

GPU's haven't depreciated in a while btw. Even years ago when I bought my 9600gt from novatech, I sold it on ebay for more than purchase price.
A second hand gtx 285 will set you back about £180 on a good day, new ones still sell for £250 plus. (you can buy a 5850 for that)
The 280 was £180 new at EOL

Cars are depreciating like bricks in water, the current economy with the prices of cars = less people buying

people are kinda stupid btw, most faulty items have no physical issue and just need some tlc or a bios reflash

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

There's also a damn hot day where the second you get out of the shower you start sweating again.
What are you gonna do on those days? just spend the whole day in the shower?

And on that point, does the cost of the deo outweigh the cost of frequent washing (water charges, electricity for the Gieser (so you can have warm water), time lost, soap and other materials used)?

I used to buy deodorant that was about £7.50 a tin, aftershave that was £200 a bottle.

On hot days, there's talcum powder and body wipes. Sweaty smell is caused by bacteria and not the moisture. If you use antibacterial hand solution on your pits in the morning, the multiplying time for bacteria is drastically reduced. Sure, you'll sweat a lot but it'll be a good 6-8 hours before anything even faintly becomes noticeable.

There's always £0.50 roll on antiperspirant where a stick lasts 2 months. No point buying £4 lynx (axe to americans) or £7 G.E at the consumption of 2-3 tins a week when no one is going to come up and criticize you for not smelling like a product

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Installed Mac OSX on my PC.

It's beautiful. It's, yes, better than Windows, disregarding some software not available for it. Wouldn't pay for the overpriced hardware, but the OS is fantastic.

Hell, the only thing I've had crash or freeze on me, is, ironically enough, MSN Messenger, a Microsoft product.

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kids dont crash either, but they also cant drive

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[ElijahTW]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

Yesterday, I was thinking the same of Eli. He's good with his cash, fixes his own assets like cars and computers, saves regularly, has great personal responsibility and worked for his own stuff when he was younger

.......then wants to spend a big chunk of bankroll on a holiday?

I allow myself to have one or two big expensive purchases a year... nothing that takes up too much of my bank balance though.

I already had $15k in my bank account, and because I got a scholarship to college, the $40k my uncle had saved for me for college was no longer needed for college, so he let me have that to do whatever I want with it. 3/4 of that will be saved, or applied to some sort of investment. The 1/4 is to have some fun with.

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[gamefreak94]

Your uncle must be a pretty good guy to let his nephew have whatever he saved up instead of spending it on himself and his kids (if he has any).

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[ElijahTW]

After my dad died, he basically became my dad.

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[Silenus]

That's a nice man.

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Originally Posted by Silenus

That's a nice man.

Indeed.

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

I used to buy deodorant that was about £7.50 a tin, aftershave that was £200 a bottle.

200 on aftershave? I don't think I could spend that much money on aftershave even if I wanted to, even the most exclusive and expensive stuff around here goes for what when converted back ends up about 40 of your pounds, that stuff must have been laced with platinum.

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

200 on aftershave? I don't think I could spend that much money on aftershave even if I wanted to, even the most exclusive and expensive stuff around here goes for what when converted back ends up about 40 of your pounds, that stuff must have been laced with platinum.

At most I'd spend $43.99 on a Star Trek cologne. You see, it has Kirk on the cover

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