[TML] Selling Traveller magazines on Ebay

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 7/6/08 6:51 PM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

> On 6 Jul 2008 at 13:04, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, after I asked you, I actually went to the effort of looking at your
>> completed sales...  Assuming the shipping is breaking even, it looks like
>> you netted about $160 out of the batch that closed on July 4th.  :)  (Yes, I
>> considered the listing and closing fees.)
>> 
>> The more I consider it, the more I think I should work on cleaning some
>> stuff out of *my* storage unit.  Could help pay off some bills and I've got
>> lots of stuff in there that I'll never play.  Hell, I've got lots I never
>> *have* played.
> 
> That was one of my criteria. I had a lot of D&D stuff that was still
> in shrinkwrap. And a lot of the Judges Guild stuff had *maybe* been
> thumbed thru once.
> 
> Alas, the box had been stored in a shed at one point so I had a lot
> of water damaged stuff.
> 
>> But I guess that's a project for after I get my fiction library catalog.
> 
> Grab some sort of bar code reader (even an old CueCat) and then
> download eLibPro. It'll recognize a *lot* of books from the ISBN
> number, which it can often get from the bar code on the cover.
> 
> Makes it a lot easier.
> 
> When I get the storage locker cleared out more, I'll start entering
> books. Open a box, scan the books and label the box with a number so
> I can locate it later.

Well, I haven't seen a CueCat in a few years, and eLibPro seems to be
Windows only.  :(

A big part of the slowdown is I have to keep track of which ones I've read
or not, and I'm also marking 2 years for each book: earliest copyright and
latest printing dates.  Plus I procrastinate too much.  :P