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The Cabbage Patch Kid or Tickle Me Elmo this year is the Xbox 360 video game console. They were shipped to stores this past weekend, and were made available for sale Tuesday. But word got out a few months ago that they would be in short supply, and even those who had preordered might not get theirs in time for Christmas.
Well, I managed to get very lucky and snagged one off of the Circuit City website the morning they were released. I was going to keep it for myself, but soon afterwards I heard they were selling on eBay at a ridiculous markup… in some cases as much as 500%.
So I did what any good capitalist would do, and put mine up for sale. I set the price higher than I thought was reasonable, because I kind of wanted to keep it for myself. But it did end up selling, and I made double what I paid for it. Nice. That’ll cover a decent wedding gift for Emily 🙂