The first of the great sales

[chipotle]

I'm taking what seems like a death-defying risk here, although I'm sure it actually isn't: I'm putting up a small collection of odd stuff on eBay. This is the "BeOS diehard" block, containing four books on BeOS and a collection of CDs including both the first and last Intel releases and "Gobe Productive," an Appleworks-ish like office suite.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2046110075

A few people have expressed interests in any comics and fanzines I might choose to jettison, so those won't go off to any sales. Books and CDs are likely to just be taken to used shops in the local area. This mostly leaves the weird computer stuff for eBay--other likely candidates may be the Tandy 200 portable (a circa-1983 8085-based machine which still works, unlike the circa-1992 386SX laptop that doesn't) and an alarming collection of TRS-80 magazines, manuals and software.

Comments

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

I'll see about the CDs; if there's ones you want that I'm getting rid of, you can just have them for the shipping costs. As for Macintosh stuff, though, what little I have is unlikely to be up for sale--I'm a relatively new Mac owner, after all, so I don't think anything in the Apple realm has been moved to the Closet of Unused Equipment, beyond personal data disks I made circa 1989-93 which aren't actully readable by current Macs. Mostly what I'll try to sell via eBay will be stuff that I suspect is collectible by virtue of being either old (TRS-80/Tandy) or weird (BeOS).

My eBay account is set up to take BillPoint or whatever eBay's own system is, which works like PayPal. Since eBay recently bought PayPal, eventually BillPoint will go away and be replaced by PayPal, but evidently they haven't done that yet.

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You don't have to use eBay's setup to take Paypal, though -- you can just say "I take Paypal" and then contact the person and give them the e-mail address your Paypal is set up for.