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So when I ordered my new MacBook Pro on Ebay, the seller gave me both a spare battery and a free wireless mouse that he didn't even tell me about. You hear a lot of whining on Ebay from sellers now about how Ebay "punishes" them for not getting the highest possible rating all the time, which I think is bullshit. If you want the highest possible rating, simply delivering on the contract is not enough. You have to go the extra mile, and this guy did.

I gave him all fives.

So I'm at the thrift store today shopping for underwear, and there is, as usual, a pile of keyboards in the computer section. I always find it kind of charming and novel that functional computer hardware is now part of the every day thrifting experience. Odds are good the computers they have there now are more powerful than my windows desktop! So I see one of the keyboards.

And it's white.

The price? Four dollars. Three dollars and ninety-nine cents, to be exact.

There was mild corrosion damage on one of the battery compartments, but it clearly was just on the terminals. I bought it, brought it home, cleaned it up, threw in a new set of batteries, AND:

Now I have a complete Apple-branded bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo in perfect condition for $4.27.

I'm typing on it now. ;)