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Re: The Apple IIGS - 25th anniversary!

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, D Finnigan wrote:


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.
That's the way it used to be. You'd rarely see amateur radio or hobby electronic magazines at book sales or used book stores, but if you were an "insider" you'd have the chance to grab those boxes of magazines someone wanted to get rid of. Or you'd have to buy them, but they'd be at the local hamfest or such. In other words, they stayed within a circle of hobbyists, never seen by the world beyond. 

   Michael