Caught In The Whirlwind
Posts tagged ebay
eBaying In My Sleep
Nov 25th 2008
Last night I finally worked up the ambition to list a whole bunch of the games that I have hanging around that I'm not going to play ever again on eBay (shameless self promotion time!) in an effort to declutter a bit and make some extra cash.
It's worth doing, but it just takes so long to compile all the pictures and write a description and it's very much the same thing over and over again. I have a couple more I want to put up tonight. Some leftover magic cards that I never sold the last time I was doing a clearing of my closet and a couple of DVD sets of TV shows just in case somebody's interested in taking them off my hands.
Every time I do this I have thoughts of selling my Wii. I don't really play it much at all and 90% of the games out there for it are crap. But there's still a few things here and there that make me want to keep it around. It's almost the same situation with my PSP. There's very few games I'm interested in getting for it, but those games that I want are really important. So I'll keep the little guy around. I really want to play Star Ocean for example.
People Who Can't Read
Sep 9th 2007
I've become convinced that people on eBay can't/don't read item descriptions.
Why you ask? Because every time I put an item up, somebody always asks me "do you ship to <insert country here>?" despite the fact that I put "ships to the United States only" in the item description and the shipping calculator says "Ships to: United States". It's not like I set it that way on accident people!
It's not that I don't like people in other countries, it's that I don't want to have to deal with things like customs or making sure I have enough postage. This eBay stuff is already more work than I thought it would be starting out.. especially gathering everything in order to list it up there.
I'm running out of stuff to eBay now though. I've ran through all of my really expensive cards and I'm into the mildly expensive ones.
As you can probably tell since I posted this rant, I really don't have much to report about goings-on at the moment. Just business as usual around here. Well, just one thing…my friends are finally moving out from their current sub-optimal living conditions and since their apartment already has a built in AC unit, they're giving me their old window AC thingy. Woohoo! Of course I need to help lug heavy things into their new place. At least it's on the 1st floor.
Random Dump O' Stuff
Sep 5th 2007
I'm still alive! Honest!
I just really haven't had much to talk about since the state fair. Or much that I'd like to throw up on the internet anyway. There have been a few things going on but nothing that I could make a full post out of, but now that there's enough collected random stuff…
- I got sunburned at the state fair, just below my eyes. That was annoying. I guess I forgot to put sunscreen there.
- I've determined my Dad should purchase all concert tickets for me from here on out. First 2nd row at the Porcupine Tree show, now we've got 4th row center seats to see the Blue Man Group in October, a week or two after seeing Porcupine Tree. Next up, Trans Siberian Orchestra tomorrow.
- Apple is going to be releasing new iPods today based on popular speculation. Several of my friends are on strict orders to knock me unconscious if I even imply that I'm putting my credit card into any web forms.
- My apartment has a new green screen door and will be receiving a brand new front door at some point in the future. Also green.
- My software engineering professor is really hard to understand, and he says "ummmm…ah….errrrrr…" every 2-5 words.
- I met up with a friend from my high school who was also taking software engineering. Which is handy because the course requires group work.
- I'm currently in the process of eBaying the more expensive cards in my Magic:The Gathering collection. I used to be big into it but they've sat in a closet for a couple years and I figure I should sell them before people stop playing the game. Looking back at my last 31 days of eBay history, I've sold $768.53 total worth of magic cards so far, bringing me to the realization that I spent wayyyy too much money on that hobby.
- My Belkin iPod car adapter (charger + line out) has been on it's last legs for a while after the casing got broken on the dock connector part, leaving just the bare connector and the wires. Yesterday wires started falling off, until finally, it killed the sound, so I need to get a replacement at some point.
- Another one of my Zebra Danio's vanished. This time it wasn't in the filter. I have no idea what happened to this one. Vanished like ol' one eye.
And there we go. Random facts related. Now to tag that mess…
Goodbye Rush!
May 25th 2007
Today I sold my ticket to see rush at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, NY. It's kinda a sad day, considering I really, really wanted to go see Rush before they, well…die. They're getting up there in age.
Unfortunately, and I didn't realize this at the time, the date of the show happened to conflict with my sisters wedding. So no Rush for me.
At least I was able to get the purchase price of my ticket (plus 50 cents) back from eBay.
Maybe next time guys. If there's going to be a next time that is.
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