Rebates, Shot Online Update: Semi-Pro Status And the Auction House, And (A Terrible) Steak and Potatoes (Well, the Salad)
I’m going to try and post two blog entries tonight.
On with it!
- Believe it or not, I am actually going to get my outstanding rebates in the mailbox two days before the 30 day postmark deadline! The rebate processors won’t know what hit them!
So…anyone wanna bet on the over/under on how many of the ten rebates I just mailed out will be rejected?
Over 2.5 -110
Under 2.5 -110
Current rebate-o-meter: $1,110. Got a few hundred over the past few days, and added a few hundred.
- Shot-Online update: I’m at level 40, and halfway to level 41. Mageias really help, even at a hefty cost of ten million NG for 250 charges.
(How can I afford such extravagances? More on that later…)
As far as my Semi-Pro quest is concerned, I just found out what the requirements really are to achieve Semi-Pro status. Copied and pasted from the Shot-Online site:
Cut Off Standard
- The top 50% of the X number of players who score 68 or under (stroke play)
(The qualifiers must score under 68 in order to be in the selection process. We then qualify the top 50% of the players who scored 68 or under. For instance, if 100 players got 68 or under, we’d pass 50. If there was a tie for the 50th spot, the player with the lower handicap will get the spot. Getting under 68 does not guarantee a pass.)
Damn. I knew that one needed a handicap of -4 on Gladsheim in order to take the test, but I was always under the impression that all I needed was a -4 during the test itself to pass. I gotta shoot better than -4 AND finish in the top 50% of all qualifiers? Considering that I can’t even shoot -4 now—and I’m playing from the amateur tees!—I don’t see myself passing this test any time soon.
That little tidbit about how one’s handicap is the tiebreaker is a bit comforting, though. I guess I better lower my HC as well.
By the way, I mentioned in the past that I spend way too much time at the Auction House. I’m beginning to think that that’s an understatement; I’m probably spending more than half of my Shot-Online time at the AH!
Why, you ask? Well, it probably has something to do with being able to flip stuff purchased really cheap at a huge profit! You might recall that I was flipping items like Zodiac Leos a while back…
Case in point: Zodiac Leo 100s (Pwr +6) generally sell for anywhere from 500,000 to nearly 1,000,000 NG. In the past few days, I’ve been able to score several Zodiac Leos for less than 600,000, and I’ve been able to flip most of them for a “Buy now” price of 850,000. After the auction fees, that’s an easy 200,000 NG profit!
Well, since then, I’ve been able to flip million dollar items for pretty nice profits. Here’s just a sampling of my for-profit sales:
- Werdandis purchased for ~ 2 million NG being sold for anywhere between 2.5-4.5 million NG.
- Sagittarius 500s for ~ 1 million NG in profit each
- Capricornus (yes, that’s how the game spells it) 500s for ~ 2 million NG in profit
Last night alone, I flipped a few seven-figure items for a grand total of about 6 million NG in profit. I used the money to buy yet another 11 million NG Mageia :P.
Yes, I’m a total Shot-Online dork. In fact, I’m such a dork, that I actually take notes on the sale prices of certain items, in order to figure out what a good deal really is.
(If only I did that back in my high school, trading-card-dealing days.)
I am having WAY too much fun with this game.
- Those of you that love your food might want to turn away from this story…
On Friday night, I decided to fry up some ribeyes and prepare a potato salad. Unfortunately, I was a bit short on mayo, and the salad wasn’t thoroughly coated. On top of that, I completely forgot to add chopped eggs to the salad!
(Oh well…it was still damn tasty :P).
Now, if a bad potato salad is a sin, what would you call an extra-fatty, extra-gristly, extra-chewy piece of ribeye steak? I’m still crying over the horrible piece of steak I had; there was a huge chunk of fat right in the middle of the cut, as well as several chunks of fat in other locations in the steak! After trimming away all the fat (never mind the gristle that lined one edge of the steak), the 12oz piece of ribeye I had was cut down to maybe four ounces.
I had to compensate by eating even more under-coated potato salad :P.
My Week Two (Fantasy) Football recap is coming…