Archive - Mar 13, 2008

Date

Arbitrage

Electronics Boutique has a retail model that is weird. But exploitable!

The end result of EB's fixation on increasing their used inventory (where the margins are very good and where they pay used-game sellers in store credit, which makes their margins even higher) was their recent "Trade in 5 games for 1 new Nintendo DS Lite" offer.

Things I have learned lately

You can bowhunt bear in Ontario?

But of course, the hardest of hardcore bowhunters hunt polar bear, which seems crazy even to me. Then I find out in that last article that modern hunters have taken elephant with a bow. Which is just wacky. As extreme stunts go, that ranks with rowing around the world.