Office Depot is having a sale on Microsoft Surface Pros. Looks like all models are $200 off. The one pictured above is the 128GB model. It looks to be the most popular model on Amazon with a sales rank of 204. This model sells for $937 on Amazon. Unfortunately, Amazon takes a whopping $56 in fees. Yikes. With a shipping cost of around $5 you are still looking at a $75 profit. Still pretty damn good. Plus you can leverage it even further.
The UPromise Shopping Portal offers 5% cash back on Office Depot Purchases. So even with Amazon’s nasty fee the deal is still pretty darn good. Throw in 5x with a Chase Ink card and you are sitting pretty.
Here is how the deal breaks down.
- Microsoft Surface Pro
- MSRP: $999
- Office Depot: $799
- Amazon: $937
- Amazon Fees: $56.30
- Gross Revenue: $880.70
- Profit after Shipping: ~$75
- UPromise Cash Back: $39.95
- Total Profit: ~$115
- Chase Ultimate Reward Points: 3,995
I think this is a great deal. And if my play money for reselling was not tied up in iPad’s I would be jumping on it. You can purchase up to 3. You are looking at $345 for less than a days work.
how do you ship it? insured? viable for someone who lives in hawaii?
I ship it via UPS. When you add a product with FBA one of the steps is to print out a UPS shipping label. I have not done insurance yet. So far I have not sent anything worth more than a $1,000 in a box. I probably should insure that though now that I think about it. Not sure what the UPS fee would be from Hawaii. If your cost is low enough it certainly is viable for someone in Hawaii.