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Buying Rarely Used Event Items

One thing I did hear while participating during the games is that a ton of the furniture and electronics that were used for the events will be publicly sold and auctioned off. In many cases the organizations simply want to get rid of it as they would prefer to give it away as opposed to

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Making A Profit Out of Your Free Swag

It seems like I have so much free collectible merchandise from the Olympics where I am not sure what to do with it. In many cases it is items like pins or toques that I know many people would want. I had some other friends that were in a similar situation and some of them

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Relocating Without Financial Security

Over the past week I have spoken to a lot of people who were interested in moving to Vancouver ever since they visited here recently because of the games. It was interesting to see the different mindsets how some people would only do it when they say find a job locally. Whereas some say they

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Gold Medal Frenzy And The Olympic Conclusion

Well, Canada won the gold medal today in Hockey and you can bet that it is busy and packed on the streets here. Virtually every street vendors are making a ton of profit simply selling items that are patriotic like a flag. This is one of those days too where it is so great to

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Remarketing Old Products

Only one more day left of the Olympics here. One interesting thing I noticed about merchandises today was how some companies have re-branded old merchandise in order to sell it to the Olympic crowd. For example, some companies have an excess of pins that simply have things like hockey play figures and the words Vancouver

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A Good Deal Based On Market Demand

Today I was talking to a person who said that her friend was so excited to get such a great deal for a pair of tickets to the Olympic gold medal hockey game. The price? $15,000. Yes, we are talking five figures here. Apparently she thought it was such a good deal as people are

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