Direct Marketrobbing II

Sephora checked her email after a bite to eat for dinner. One of the wonderful things about the global marketplace is the exposure to food from all over. Sephora's duck panang was as spicy as she had ever tasted and she loved every second of it. Her face was still flushed from the meal as she sat down and started perusing her email accounts. Some of last weeks auctions were turning out well, she noted. Still, she was thinking of leaving cameras alone from now on. The constant hype and increase in pixels was turning the market value of six month old cameras into little more than postage profit. Why settle for 20 megapixels when you could have a 35 megapixel camera at the same price as the 20 was six months ago? Unfortunately, most of Sephora's "supply chains" were yielding last year's models. Even Ru-bay leeches were starting to get snobby about megapixels. She would have to stick to processors and memory to keep the auctions as profitable as possible.

Sephora opened an email from a potential bidder. Hmm... Normally she stayed away from bidders that were requesting items, but it might be pretty easy to get ahold of the ten terabyte drives he was requesting. And she would make a nice chunk of change based on what he was willing to pay. Of course she would have to format them, load them with garbage and reformat to ensure that they were clean of her "supply chain's" data. Didn't want anyone figuring out where they came from and starting to draw conclusions. The nice thing was that she often learned a thing or two from the drives she did bother to take and it didn't hurt to copy all the latest games. Sephora emailed the bidder back with a promised "I'll see what I can do" and started pulling up some demographic sites to try and spot other cities and neighborhoods that would make good supply chains. The boring tedious part of the job was about to begin as she started her market research analysis.