Hello All: After moving back to my home after six months of
divorce-imposed
exile, we are in the process catching up on years of backlogged home
improvements (paint, new carpeting, finishing the work on my bedroom
that my mother stopped when I was 10-years-old.) While moving stuff out
off my room so that it might be painted, I had a chance to sort through the
role playing and war games I have accumilated over the years. Games that I
don't play anymore, or never played at all. Games that are just taking up
space. I've decided to hold an internet sale to clear this stuff out. Since
I've never done this before I need suggestions about just how to handle this.
Can anyone give some pointers?
Ok, I was going to reply directly, but thought I'd add to mk's post instead.
r.g.b.m is for board games; while some are posted above,
rec.games.frp.marketplace is where most role-playing games should go. If
you have a preponderance of one or the other, go with a combined auction and
put it on the group dealing with that you have the most of...
Gawd, you can tell I'm not an English major.
I'll put the rest of my suggestions in a note direct to you. Just expect that
it can be a contentious lot. Nothing like
rec.games.miniatures.warhammer, mind you... ;->=
The_Beast
> After moving back to my home after six months of
Since
> I've never done this before I need suggestions about just how to handle
rec.games.board.marketplace
Go there, examine how other people are doing their sales/auctions. Ask
them questions directly. That'd prolly be your best, easiest, and fastest way
of getting some ideas on how to do this (since there are different ways of
doing
it ;).
There's a seperate newsgroup if you're dealing with collectible trading cards
(which one of these days I'm gonna find some time and plow through
that so I can sell my excess off :-/ ).
Mk
> On Tue, 12 May 1998, Mark A. Siefert. wrote:
The best advice I can give about this is: don't do it. Wait until GenCon, and
put them in the auction with $2 minimum bids.
I've done this a couple of times -- it's a much bigger headache than it
should be, and you end up spending more time & energy than you want for very
little return.
On Wed, 13 May 1998 16:17:11 -0400 (EDT), Rick Rutherford
> <rickr@nimbus.skycache.com> wrote:
> I've done this a couple of times -- it's a much bigger headache than it
I'll reiterate what Rick said. Wait until GenCon, especially if you have some
old games. You won't have the hassles of an internet auction. I sold the
Warhammer campaign boxed set over the net. One guy bailed on me after three
e-mails. I eventually sold it to the third guy. And this was one item.