I've earned around $300 from RentACoder when I worked there last month and got the money transferred to my PayPal account (now that PayPal have solved their bug which required international users to have a US back account in order to accept money). I want to spend this money on online shopping, and this means books! Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't work with PayPal (because it belongs to their competitor eBay), so I registered at Barnes & Noble. It is more expensive than Amazon by 15-20% on average, but I don't have much choice.
Today I made the first order - "Lisp in Small Pieces" - it's just the kind of book to buy as a special present to myself. I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. For now it looks like the transaction was processed successfully and BN pulled the money from my PayPal account.Spending my RentACoder earned money on Books
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