<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YE4BpfcI-AM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YE4BpfcI-AM&rel=1</a>]]>The video above is the October 2008 issue of Esquire magazine. According to them, the 21st century begins now and not in 2000. Because obviously, the future is stuffing expensive electronics between the pages of magazines to make things blink, just like things blinked on websites in the 1990's. Sure, it's neat and it's flexible e-ink panels, but flexibility makes very little difference when there's a heavy circuit board stuffed in there with it that has 6 batteries on it. Supposedly this thing lasts for 4 months.
When I told Spessa that I picked one up at the mall today, she asks what the hell for since I'd been badmouthing it for the past couple days. Then she took a guess that I was going to buy up all the copies in town to sell on Ebay, just as I'd done with all the Hunter S. Thompson issues of Rolling Stone a few years back. I hadn't even thought of that! So I checked Ebay for this Esquire issue and guess what I found? PEOPLE HAVE PAID $75 FOR THIS ISSUE.
A search for it on Ebay shows that people are doing Buy It Nows for $75.00. If you check completed listings, you'll see that people are actually winning the auctions for this much money. The lowest I saw one go for was $15.50 but
most are going for around $75. It's nuts. All of you need to run out to your book store immediately and purchase every issue you can find. They're only $5.99 in the book stores. Sell 10 of them and you've mad $690.10.
I know that blabbing this to everyone is going to make the price go down on Ebay and I'm going to make less money because of it. But fuck it, it's all profit. When I visited the book store today, they had about 10 issues there. And this was a mall's Waldenbooks in a fairly small town. Tomorrow I'm going to go there and to Borders and buy every issue they have. Everyone go do this and post here about how it went.
Back when Hunter S. Thompson died, I made hundreds of dollars by buying up all the Rolling Stone magazines with him on the cover and selling them on Ebay. I think the highest I was getting for them was $40 at first, and then it slowly went downhill to around $25. All for a $6 or $7 magazine. I know I made at least $500 doing that for a month or two, probably more. Who knows, the price on these Esquires may actually go up since they only printed a limited number of them with the e-ink displays.
When I was doing the Hunter S. Thompson magazines, I gave weird excuses about why I was buying 7 of the same issue. I told a lady at a grocery store that there was an article in there that I didn't agree with and I didn't want other people in town reading it. I told another that they wrote an unfavorable review of my band in it. I think I'm going to tell someone tomorrow that I'm going to burn all the Esquires with my church group because technology like this is satanic. Or maybe say that I'm building a supercomputer with the parts. If any of you buy up all the copies around you, be sure to give the craziest reasons you can think of.
