{"id":26519,"date":"2016-08-21T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26519"},"modified":"2016-08-21T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:45:32","slug":"garage-sale-tech-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/21\/garage-sale-tech-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage sale tech coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it when I find a garage-sale find. Here’s the latest. <\/p>\n

\"LinksysRouter\"<\/p>\n

A fancy-schmancy, new-in-box, dual-band Linksys WRT AC1200 “smart router.” Price on Amazon<\/a> $133.99 (depending on the day of the week, your browser, the casting of the I-Ching, your astrological chart, and Jeff Bezos’ mood; you might find it for as little at $99.99, thanks to Amazon’s recent habit of mucking around with prices). Receipt in the shiny new box said the seller paid over $160 for it at Best Buy or somesuch place a few months back. Dunno why he never used it.<\/p>\n

It was marked $45, which I would never have gone for, especially considering I just got a new $22 router two weeks ago. But when I carried it over to the woman on the porch to see if she’d deal, I was wearing my Zelman Partisans tee-shirt<\/a>. It’s a discreet shirt with only a tiny logo over the breast. But it instantly caught the woman’s eye. Turned out she’s a Christian of Jewish heritage, fascinated with Judaism, studies Hebrew, and fully understands why Jews and other vulnerable populations should be pro-gun. <\/p>\n

We had a nice talk. I told her she should visit TZP<\/a> and look in particular for our Sheila Stokes-Begley, who is so very much like her. And I got the router — which belonged to her husband who was too busy on his cellphone to pay any attention to her disposal of his stuff — for $20.<\/p>\n

So now the small router I bought earlier (which worked fine as long as the microwave wasn’t running) becomes a backup, and this vastly more powerful job, after a five-minute set-up, took over the wi-fi world. <\/p>\n

“Smart router.” Hmph. The thing is literally capable of running all those “smart” appliances I don’t have and never will. Can be programmed to shut itself off and restart on schedule to save power. That’s a useful feature. Way better signal than the other one, also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love it when I find a garage-sale find. Here’s the latest. A fancy-schmancy, new-in-box, dual-band Linksys WRT AC1200 “smart router.” Price on Amazon $133.99 (depending on the day of the week, your browser, the casting of the I-Ching, your astrological chart, and Jeff Bezos’ mood; you might find it for as little at $99.99, thanks to Amazon’s recent habit of mucking around with prices). Receipt in the shiny new box said the seller paid over $160 for it at Best Buy or somesuch place a few months back. Dunno why he never used it. It was marked $45, which…<\/p>\n

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