How to earn 42 cents without even trying

Recall that Tanner and I went to the recital for Chad Hoopes in Gstaad a couple of weeks ago. Well, due to some confusion, we bought tickets for ourselves before we found out that Chad's mom had gotten free tickets for us. I was prepared to just eat the 45 francs the tickets cost us. We went to the recital, and I gave the paid tickets back at the ticket office and told them just to give the tickets away or to sell them to someone else if they wanted. To my surprise, the woman at the ticket office said that if they were able to resell them, they'd put the money back on my credit card. (Imagine that happening in the United States.)

I didn't think much more about it and had still written off the cost of the tickets. I looked at my credit card statement today, though, and to my surprise (again), I had a credit back for the cost of the tickets. What's more, due to fluctuations in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Swiss franc on the day I bought the tickets and the day they were resold, the credit I got back on my credit card statement was 42 U.S. cents more than I had paid for the tickets.

This got me thinking. Some of you may recall that a couple of summers ago I found myself a little racket (completely legal) reselling tickets to a concert given by the band The Police in St. Paul. I grossed myself about $1,600 on that one concert [but then lost about $500 of that in the one bad judgment call I made for that concert, buying front-row tickets that I wasn't able to resell (but then I did get a front-row ticket to a good concert, so it wasn't all bad)].

I'm thinking that I may have stumbled onto my next moneymaking racket . . . .