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Cheap Ass Gamer Featured in Wall Street Journal Article on Game Shopping & Trading

By CheapyD 02-16-2009 10:58 PM
Updated by CheapyD 02-18-2009 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Wall Street Journal
Of course, there's always old-fashioned bargain-hunting. Several years ago, David Abrams became obsessed with finding bargains online, often buying cheap electronics, such as fax machines, simply because they were inexpensive. An avid videogame player, Mr. Abrams launched www.cheapassgamer.com to help other parsimonious consumers find deals from retailers.


Click through to the Wall Street Journal article, "New Websites Help Players Shop & Swap" to read the full (yet small) CAG mention in the last two paragraphs. You'll see some other friends of CAG (Goozex, GameFly) mentioned too.
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 Comments (Total Comments: 35)  

Cursor's Avatar
Achievement Unlocked: Publicity Coup!

Congrats, man. Here's hoping this depressing shack-fu'ing recession is good for somebody...
I like how it says OBSESSED
RelentlessRolento's Avatar
public x2

whatever that means
gunm's Avatar
Nice. Is that the same guy who was asking for info for his WSJ article in the forums?
CheapyD's Avatar
Yup, that's him.
NegativeZero's Avatar
PARSIMONIOUS!?!
Parsimonious You WSJ! Parsimonious You!

Man, a small tight knit community is great, but I think that things like this help to welcome a couple of A-holes sometimes. Let's hope that they are quickly and surely weeded out if necessary.

to the others...Welcome!
Squarehard's Avatar
Wall Street? .... Really?.....Wall Street.
arnoldhead's Avatar
I wish they would have mentioned that hoarding is generally looked down upon and sucks for everyone else.
Panther1484's Avatar
Awesome. Congrats Cheapy!
Lord Darkstorn's Avatar
Haha. I guess the capitalists like you...
dboy81's Avatar
Congrats, Cheapy! Doing your part to stimulate the economy!
bobthecat23's Avatar
hey cheapy how about focusing on releasing a new cagcast instead of this $h!t
kube00's Avatar
Anyone use that Switch Games at all?
terra-kun's Avatar
Who is this David Abrams? I need to thank him for making such an awesome website.
Liquid 2's Avatar
Super lol@the bit about the fax machines.
Mr. Anderson's Avatar
I knew I stuck around here for a reason. Best forums on the web, I say!
muzras's Avatar
yeaaa cheapyz
The internet space pimp is sure to get more hos after they read this. Hos can read, right?
parsimonious?

I don't know what that means, but it better be a compliment.
BigSpoonyBard's Avatar
Nice of the article to use a hoarder as an example of a CAG user


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