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 12-07-2008, 11:56 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,438 |  Trading up
Well, I'm back after my mini hiatus. I have improved the number of my household by one, strapping young lad (Thank you. Thank you very much) Aside from the arrival of my new little tax deduction, I began an intriguing enterprise last week that began with a craigslist ad from a man with a brand new, in the box duo core laptop with all the high end specs (I won't go into details) looking to trade said laptop for an XBox 360.
So, I looked up the laptop and it was worth $1400. Easy math. $300 Xbox 360 with games and extras to make it worth about $400 for a laptop worth three times as much. After a thorough inspection of the laptop I made this epic trade.
Okay, I never really wanted a laptop and I really liked my Xbox, but I was a winner. A winner with a laptop I didn't want. Back to craigslist for me!
So I list the new laptop and get a bazillion offers of insanely stupid people offering massages, and low ball cash offers of $300 and the like, when the golden offer came through.
My unwanted laptop for two pistols, a Springfield Armory 1911A1 and a Baby Desert Eagle .40 cal (pics forthcoming). Can you did that? I'm sporting wood as I write this. | 
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| 12-08-2008, 12:03 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Newport, Vermont Posts: 1,110 |
You must have my brother's luck. I could hunt all day for something like that and never find it, and he'd call me an hour later to tell me he traded a broken axe handle and a bag of pocket lint for it.
Good find and good deal! __________________
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| 12-08-2008, 12:19 AM | #3 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
Congrats on the NEW editions - All of them...
JD __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 12-08-2008, 12:23 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: North Charleston, South Carolina Posts: 1,062 |
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Baby Desert Eagle .40 cal (pics forthcoming).
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Bah I hate that name. I'd rather call it a Jericho 941.
But good trade then my man. Polymer or fully metal?
I love the Jericho.
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| 12-08-2008, 01:38 AM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 959 |
congrats on the newest tax deduction, wish you the best. now as for the guns im jeleous, a baby eagle in .40. darn you, darn you to heck!!!!  > __________________
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| 12-08-2008, 01:55 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,438 |
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Bah I hate that name. I'd rather call it a Jericho 941.
But good trade then my man. Polymer or fully metal?
I love the Jericho.
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Yeah, that's the gun. And I agree about the name. It's the fully metal one. Not sure its true value, but it feels fantastic.
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now as for the guns im jeleous, a baby eagle in .40. darn you, darn you to heck!!!! |
Are those hard to find? It needs a good re-bluing, but I felt pretty good about the trade. | |
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| 12-08-2008, 02:19 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: North Charleston, South Carolina Posts: 1,062 |
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Yeah, that's the gun. And I agree about the name. It's the fully metal one. Not sure its true value, but it feels fantastic.
Are those hard to find? It needs a good re-bluing, but I felt pretty good about the trade.
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Does it say Baby Eagle or Jericho 941 on it?
And yeah I hate the name because I get Deagle idiots who think it's cool because it has the eagle name in it....they tell me in a smaller Deagle....which it is not....was only named that for well to sell it more.
To me Jericho 941 is a cool name.
And it's the same gun Spike from Cowboy Bebop uses!
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| 12-08-2008, 08:58 AM | #8 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,558 |
Congrats, Ineffable! Sounds like last week was a good one! __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | Likes Given: 3
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| 12-08-2008, 02:40 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: everywhere Posts: 9,640 |
So basically an X-Box for two pistols. Kinda like a gun buyback program in reverse. Well done, sir. | |
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| 12-08-2008, 05:15 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,438 |
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Congrats, Ineffable! Sounds like last week was a good one!
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Best. Week. Ever. Thank you.
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So basically an X-Box for two pistols. Kinda like a gun buyback program in reverse. Well done, sir.
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Grazie. Just doing my small part to keep the 2A alive and well.... Wait, you just gave me an idea... Why don't we(firearmstalk) pool some dough and buy us a $hit ton of XBox 360s and go into America's ghettos and trade for guns. We'd be taking weapons out of the hood and putting them in the hands of law abiding Americans who love the 2A. | |
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