I think I found them

Don't you hate it when you loose the perfect pair of shoes to an unfortunate incident. For almost a year now I've been looking for replacement Mary Janes to the pait that I lost to a fateful game of beach golf. In any case today I won an eBay bid for these black Mary Jane Clarks for only $18.01. With shipping cost and tax they ended up being $30.06. This is actually a really great deal since Clarks usually run about $50. YAY me!!! Anyway, the pics are below. Seriously how cute are they?

I hope that this ends the quest for my pair of black Mary Janes!

The Best Deal Ever

In all of the sickness of last week I forgot to blog about the greatest deal that I've ever made in the case of school books:) And it happened totally by accident.

So all of my homework and tests for math are done in a online program called My Math Lab (courtesy of the folks at Course Compass). This program by itself costs $71, and if it's purchased inside of a book package the whole cost for the my math book and the computer code for My Math Lab costs $177. Oi Vay!!! Well in my effot to conserve what I could on my Visa I decided that the cheapest route to take was to buy the My Math Lab from Skagit, and the text from eBay. Which I did. Via eBay I ended up paying $59 for the text book, with the CD's from the book, and the correesponding answer books. So with the $71 for the My Math Lab and the $59 for the text I ended up spending a total of $136, a savings of $41 if I had bought everything from the campus book store. Not bad, I thought initially, it could have been worse. However, it actually gets a whole lot better!

When I received the text book from the seller on eBay, it came with a un opened My Math Lab code, which meant that it had not been tied to a class yet, which also meant that I could return the one that I spent $71 on and get that money back! So, what did I end up spending on my math book + My Math Lab a whopping $59!!! This is the greatest deal that I've worked so far for one of my text books. Especially since the code was so ecpensive by itself. I mean they don't even include a disc or anything. Crazy!

Anyway, I had to share that because it ended up being sucha great deal:) Maybe I should major in economics;)

And the bids have been cast

As we head to the polls today and vote for the candidate that we like the best it should be noted that the eBay polls, for our candidates Cabbage Patch kids, have already closed; and the winner is. . .

Sarah Palin @ $19,000

I'm speechless at the cost of this doll. I mean I could use that to continue my college education. Maybe I should put myself on eBay and see who wants to bid on paying for my college education! Don't get me wrong, the money did go to a good cause (Toy's for Tots). I just think that my education would be a better one;)

The rest of the dolls rankings are as follows. . .

#2 Barrack Obama @ $8,400
#3 John McCain @ $6,000
#4 Joe Biden @ $3,550.01

Post #100

For my 100th post I decided to show off these great collectors items from eBay! Seriously if I had thousands of dollars I would totally be bidding on the Sarah Palin Cabbage Patch Doll. How much fun would it be to own that?!

I remember in the 80's mothers getting into throwdowns in the isle of Toys'R'Us just to make sure that the doll was under the Christmas tree for their daughters. I did get one a few years after that debacle thanks to my Grandma:) Now they're representing 4 of the most important people in immediate history.

Here's the bidding as it last stood:

Sarah Palin: $3,100.00
John McCain: $1,025.00
Barack Obama: $955.89
Joe Biden: $610.00

If only our votes counted like an eBay bid!

eBay

I was pretty slow to jump on the eBay band wagon. For a while it seemed to me just to be a hassle with Paypal, I've known people that have gotten their identity stolen. However, once I found some really good deals for items that I wanted that was it. Of course you always have to adapt the buyer beware philosophy and you have to go in knowing that you may not get that item that you wanted, if you're out bid, but over all I think it's a decent place to shop. eBay and Paypal have also improved their security measures from the early years.

Why did I say all that? Well, because now that I've bought a few things I'm starting to get into the selling aspect of it. I had never planned to sell my stuff on eBay, but I've decided that what I earn from eBay will go towards paying off my CC. Naturally there are some small charges that come along with posting items, depending on what you want to sell, how many items you have in your store, and how you want to sell it, but those charges far outweigh what can be made from what you choose to sell.

I don't have a whole lot up right now, mostly books, but last night I sold my set of Jillian Michaels workout DVD's ($15) and my Leslie Sansone walking DVD with resistance bands and weights ($11.17). So it might only be $26, but that's $26 less that I owe too. If it ends up being a debacle then I'll quit, but right now I'm pretty happy about it.

Shoes Glorious Shoes

OK, I'll admit, much to my "teams" shagrin, that I'm not one of those girls that has a fettish for footwear, I'm more of a jacket girl, but when you can find shoes like this on eBay then I really do become a fan of shoes.

Seriously, how cute are they!!!

You'll die when I tell you what I got these shoes for. Normally this pair of Karen Scott pumps will for retail $50. I got them for $2.64!!! So because I got them for so cheap I decided to splurge on the shipping so they could get to me in a couple days rather than a week, which they would be normally. Even with the extra money I spent, $15.94, I still come in under $20. AWESOME!!!

I hope I get them in time for my trip to St. Louis!

(Jewels let me know what you think, since I know that you do enjoy a sensational shoe)