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The Briz pawnshop in downtown Vancouver, Washington specializes in musical instruments. Over the phone they estimated the could lend me $150 for them, but that won't be definite until they can inspect them. Both are in mint condition though.
I'll use the money to promote my business, mainly postage for junk mail to potential clients, as well as printing of business cards and PO box rental.
Yes I now live in Vancouver now - but I still work in Portland. No one needs to know that I work from Shari's Restaurant and Pies. If I purchase a $2.35 coffee, I get a power socket, wifi and restroom all night long.
Plus I get to flirt with a special lady. ;-)
A great many - not just here at SN - have harshly criticized my amateurish website design. While presently it's an experiment, it's inspired by the websites of many world-reknowned coders, such as Ward Cunningham and Bjarne Stroustrup.
Somewhere I found a free webhost that specializes in technology professionals. I don't recall the URL but those guys are definitely Rocket Scientists. Every last one of them has a website just like mine.
At least my website has a logo.
The actual response I've received is entirely from hard-core techies. My experience is that those folks are the best clients.
I used to get a lot of work from non-technical people, such as some marketing chick who made bank in the dot-com boom, but every last one of those people gave me grief - including the sole owner of a $200,000,000.00 hedge fund.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday May 12 2016, @01:30AM
Wouldn't it be better to sell your keyboard ad amp on EBay or something, or are you actually looking at this as a loan?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 12 2016, @04:24AM
I expect to pay off the loan. Some fellow Soylentil just offered me thirty hours of work.
I'm quite experienced at direct mail sales. I already have a brochure that I can revise for my current services and company name.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday May 12 2016, @08:35PM
Nice! :)
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(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Thursday May 12 2016, @02:33AM
Is it a guitar amplifier? I might be interested. Vancouver is a bit of a drive for me, but I still might be able to give you a better deal on it.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 12 2016, @04:27AM
It's a Roland Cube Street, the model with two midrange speakers.
It has electric guitar, a choice of digital emulations of tube amps, voice mic input, MP3 player input for recorded accompaniment, and instrument input. The guitar input has a gain adjustment dial.
It's a Busker's Amp, in that it has the option to be powered by 6 AA batteries. In my own experience, they last twelve hours with a music player.
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(Score: 2) by Sir Finkus on Thursday May 12 2016, @11:20PM
Ahh, unfortunately I'm not in the market for anything like that. Thanks for replying.
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(Score: 2) by patella.whack on Thursday May 12 2016, @07:05AM
Just my .02
Keep your musical gear that allows you to have "that outlet" when you need/want it.
It is (or will be, at times) worth more than $X value to you emotionally. That's my experience, anyway.
-Cheers
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 14 2016, @01:49AM
I think I may have been starting to get manic the day I decided to hock it. I do know I haven't been sleeping right.
I also have a guitar, but I don't really know how to play it yet. I can play a few chords but I can't really play a song on it yet.
The piano I play well.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 16 2016, @03:38AM
Glad you were able to find a way to keep your instruments.