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    Quote Originally Posted by shendog View Post
    Now that is forward thinking! Go one step further and get to Walmart in the days just after Christmas when lights are 75% off original price and stock up. Pack the bulbs away to sell next year.
    that is exactly what the plan is, i do like making money off retail stores the opportunities dont come very often to buy at a retail store and pay taxes to my local community and still profit on the deal. Its a safe bet to assume ill be buying a couple cart loads of them if they go on sale. The problem is stores usually pack them up and resell the same stuff next year. So i would only be able to pick up the discontinued stuff which is still fine with me.

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    OK. So I stated saving the bulbs. Told my dad about it and he says " can u believe how many different bulb base configurations there are" What? And they also have different ratings. Huh? So I scraped 3 strings of lights and got 3 different bulb types. What the...... well you know.
    How do you deal with this when you're selling them on ebay? I mean the differences are very subtle.
    It'd be a drag to sell someone 1000 bulbs just a little different than what they need.

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    Good point Ran440... Thought of that yesterday when i had to replace a light on the tree and when i went to get one off an old string in the garage it didnt fit the string on the tree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ran440 View Post
    OK. So I stated saving the bulbs. Told my dad about it and he says " can u believe how many different bulb base configurations there are" What? And they also have different ratings. Huh? So I scraped 3 strings of lights and got 3 different bulb types. What the...... well you know.
    How do you deal with this when you're selling them on ebay? I mean the differences are very subtle.
    It'd be a drag to sell someone 1000 bulbs just a little different than what they need.
    well the mini bulbs are the most common now, but theres also c7 and c9 and alot more types out there. LED;s are replacing the older stuff, less watts, less of a fire hazard. So glass bulbs might be harder to find in the years to come. You can sell the bulbs to me or ebay them your self, id keep them seperated by type though.


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