{"id":39526,"date":"2014-07-25T00:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39526"},"modified":"2020-07-13T00:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:30:04","slug":"maybe-i-should-have-just-gotten-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39526","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should have just gotten the body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39527 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/davehestercrap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/davehestercrap.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/davehestercrap-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Camera body, that is.\u00a0 It probably would have been way less work.\u00a0 No, it definitely would have been.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So, since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39484\">I embarked on a journey to try and get a new digital camera<\/a>\u00a0for the cheapest total cost possible, I went the route of spending a pretty penny for the camera, as well as a whole bunch of shit that I don\u2019t need, because there was a mail-in rebate that basically halved the total price spent.\u00a0 In addition, there was the gamble of selling all the extraneous goods, to bring the total cost down even further; but that would require work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Work, I thought that wouldn\u2019t be so bad, because I had my eye glued to the bottom line, that in hindsight, now seems so very far away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Long story short, I haven\u2019t even listed all the crap I want to sell on eBay yet, because of all the aforementioned work.\u00a0 I\u2019m researching what my old camera can realistically sell for, as well as all the accessories that I\u2019m trying to flip, and since I\u2019m already going to go on an eBay selling spree, a few other select items that have been sitting around and collecting dust that I think I might\u00a0 be able to make some quick sales with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then there\u2019s research on shipping costs, all while trying not to overly micro-manage weight, box sizes, packing safety, and all this nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If I\u2019m lucky, maybe I\u2019ll have my auctions up and running at some point this weekend, but then there\u2019s factoring in the optimal time to start a listing, so that people on the west coast can also view and gain interest on the things I\u2019m selling, and preferably while they\u2019re at their boring menial jobs, and more apt to compulsively shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Sometimes I think I should have just plunked down the $450 and gotten the camera body.\u00a0 If that were the case, I\u2019d really only be attempting to unload my old camera, and could feasibly bring my total cost down to something maybe not quite as great as what I think might be my current end result, but with far less tedious work involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Perhaps my perspective will change if my auctions go swimmingly, and I make a good bit of money back on my gamble, with the eventual mail-in rebate being like a cherry on top.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camera body, that is.\u00a0 It probably would have been way less work.\u00a0 No, it definitely would have been. So, since\u00a0I embarked on a journey to try and get a new digital camera\u00a0for the cheapest total cost possible, I went the route of spending a pretty penny for the camera, as well as a whole bunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe I should have just gotten the body<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,79,45,15,52],"class_list":["post-39526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cameras","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39528,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions\/39528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}