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Two sold and fees

August 17th, 2011 at 01:42 am

I posted four books on half.com and have sold two! I have mailed them and have $5.94 profit off the two despite they sold for $4 a piece. The $2.64/each shipping allowance covers the $2.41/each postage, But it doesn’t really cover the bubble envelope that I found at dollar general for $0.66/each. I need to find an envelope for 23 cents or less. Any ideas? The only thing I’ve found close was 35 cents but I had to buy 100 from uline.

I wouldn’t worry much if I had pricey books, but the out 41 books I looked at, only 4 of them could be sold for $1 or more. The rest were all $0.75 so far. If I can’t find packaging that would be less than 23 cents, I would really only get 21 cents profit. And what’s the point of that?

I got an email today from Wells Fargo. My personal checking that holds my weekly allowance is no longer going to be free. There will be a $7/month fee starting mid-September. Well, that is unless I direct deposit $500/month or keep $1500 in it… which is hard when I only have a $10/week allowance. Hah. So time to get a new checking account.

Although I’m half tempted to just make a “sub-account” in my joint checking instead and just use that to make my purchases. I don’t really want to open another account at this moment. What’s funny is my husband’s personal account isn’t changing, but it’s probably because he had gotten it as a student account initially. I used to like Wells, but I’m beginning to change my mind.

Also, it seems like Netflix has raised its prices, but is removing watch instantly shows – no more Up, District 9, Babylon 5… We were just going to downgrade to watch instantly only, but now we’re more than half-tempted to drop it all together. It was the one frivolous thing we were going to allow, but maybe not.

2 Responses to “Two sold and fees”

  1. scottish girl Says:
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    Glad you managed to sell a few books. Are you going to use the money for personal spending or save it?

  2. Jerry Says:
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    I agree, it sounds like those fees would lead me to find a new bank, too! We have already determined that we will leave BofA as soon as we get back to the States because they have lied and screwed us over so many times. We are looking at switching all banking to USAA, because we have insurance with them and they have been great. They are normally open to veterans and family of veterans, so if anyone in your family was ever military you can see if they work for you.
    Jerry

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