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06-09-2006, 09:36 AM
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The Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: ZOMGZZZ!!111
Age: 33
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Re: If you had $1,000 to spend freely....
you better invent a new std if you plan on giving it to me
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06-09-2006, 09:45 AM
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The Starter
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: The Southeast
Age: 41
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Re: If you had $1,000 to spend freely....
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06-09-2006, 09:49 AM
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The Starter
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: The Southeast
Age: 41
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Re: If you had $1,000 to spend freely....
THEN I'll resell my STD to TMC and BSB for $1,000/each and double my investment and be richer than all of you.
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06-09-2006, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Austin, Texas
Age: 55
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Re: If you had $1,000 to spend freely....
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06-09-2006, 10:47 AM
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Special Teams
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Reston, VA
Age: 55
Posts: 450
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Re: If you had $1,000 to spend freely....
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The biggest trick is to only buy things you can afford to pay cash for to begin with and then you can make credit card companies pay YOU to use their card. For instance, my wife and I bought a 50" plasma last summer from Costco. The list price was $4K. When it's all said and done, we will pay a little more than $3K. Will pay? We haven't yet and here's how it goes... $4000 - original price -$500 - rebate from the manufacturer -$40 - 1% off all purchases on the Costco Amex -$120 - 3% off all purchases as a Costco Executive Member (we upgraded just for the TV). ------------- $3340 balance on the Costco Amex. Now for the fun part! We transferred the balance from the Amex to a Visa w/ 0% interest until July '07. Since the Visa isn't taking our money outside the tiny minimum, we invested the $4K the TV originally cost into 9 month CDs earning 6.5%. By the time the 0% Visa ends, we'll have earned over $300 on the CDs. That will push the final TV price down to a little over $3K. We may very well repeat the process and keep on milking it... look into getting another 0% card, transfer the balance again, put the original cash and interest back into CDs to earn even more. That will make the final TV price another few hundred dollars cheaper. Lather, rinse, repeat... The best part is the 0% transfers means that the interest we're earning on the CDs is essentially coming right out of Visa's pocket. Visa is paying me Asshole Tax! ROCK!!! Invest, Baby! Who wants to work forever?
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