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Some examples:
Rolex - stainless steel models are desirable and appreciate, gold models go for below msrp
Porche - Bucking the trend a bit, Porche gives you the option of paying an additional dealer markup rather than making you buy a Macan to get a GT3 RS.
Over time, this arbitrage goes to equilibrium and resellers can’t make money. It is relatively easy to get into this market so naturally it gets flooded. Profit goes to 0. Resellers also carry a risk that the item loses market value while they hold it. The only real winner here is the brand.
Variables: $HOSTNAME - the computer hostname $TOBACKUPDIR - the local directory you want backed up $N_CORES - the number of cores you want to use for compression $REMOTEUSER - the ssh user login on the remote server $REMOTEHOST - the remote server's IP $BACKUPDIR - where you want the file to be backed up to
#!/bin/bash
bfile=`date +%F`.$HOSTNAME.tar.gz
/usr/bin/tar cvpf - \
# You can exclude local directories here with
# --exclude="dir" \
$TOBACKUPDIR | pigz -p $N_CORES | \
ssh $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST "cat - > /$BACKUPDIR/$bfile"