Re: The Apple IIGS - 25th anniversary!

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Oggy wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon said the following on 9/20/2011 6:23 AM:
> 
>>>> ...I have a crazy large collection of old Nibble, inCider
>>>> and A+ magazines. It's amazing I didn't trash them during
>>>> the numerous moves..
> 
>>> Try listing your things on ebay.  Someone has listed their
>>> collection for about $8 per Nibble issue, for example.
> 
>> While eBay is certainly one way of sensibly disposing of Apple
>> II treasures, I think you may underestimate the work involved
>> in listing and shipping potentially many hundreds of items.
> 
> But if the choice is to lament over throwing the collection in 
> the dump or trying to sell them, then why not put the effort into 
> selling them.  eBay's Turbo Lister tool (FREE) is a good way to 
> at least catalog one's collection and produce a list if anyone is 
> interested. And when that's done, it's a few short steps to upload.
> 
> 
>> And if many dissimilar items are combined in a lot, then a
>> buyer is likely to be uninterested in much of the lot,
>> resulting in "wasted" treasure.
> 
> Then off to the dump they go!  ;)   But ya never know.. someone 
> might just what a specific issue.

Speaking from experience, whenever I've received magazines, it's always been
a huge box of them, and it's always been from somewhere nearby, and it's
always been for free.

Now that sounds like the perfect scenario, but I'd imagine that one would
not mind having your entire magazine collection, and then just getting rid
of the duplicates oneself.

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