Clearing the shelves

[jeffcrom]

I've made the painful decision that I've got to get rid of some of my CDs - I'm just running out of room. The first 40 have been listed on Ebay, and I'm going to add ten each day for awhile. The starting bid for every CD: rare, common, mediocre, whatever, is $2.00. Sigh....

Edited July 6, 2011 by jeffcrom

[papsrus]

I've never bid on eBay, I don't think. Bought a couple of things with the "buy now" option.

May have to try my hand at it here.

[Bright Moments]

why ebay rather than offering them here first?

[jeffcrom]

why ebay rather than offering them here first?

I thought about it. For one thing, in the past I haven't had very good luck selling stuff here. Also, in the past, I've offered stuff that I didn't want to my friends here for free, just so that it would have a good home. This time, I'm culling around 200-300 CDs, some pretty cool/desirable and some pretty ordinary. And I want to get it all out of the house as soon as possible. In the end, it just seemed easiest to list everything on Ebay with low starting bids rather than try to figure out a set price for each CD, especially since many of the CDs probably wouldn't generate much interest here. Whatever sells, sells, and the rest will go to Goodwill or a local used CD store. No disrespect was intended by not offering them here first - I'm just trying to keep things simple.

Edited July 7, 2011 by jeffcrom

[papsrus]

Time to go check on my bid.

Aw man, I'm getting outbid already.

Time to up the ante!

Dang. Tough round of bidding. Back on top though.

[papsrus]

There's some nice things up for auction here at practically give-away opening bid.