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Started putting some sports stuff on eBay. I'd forgotten I even had the stuff. Forty-year-old Red Sox and BOSTON Patriots yearbooks. Fun to flip through after all this time; the sports heroes of my youth.

Several watchers, but no bidders as yet. One question, asking if I could send more pictures. (No. eBay's interface doesn't let you send scans, and his return address was only his eBay username.)

After the J! test, if I get ambitious, I'll do more scans for more stuff. National Lampoons from when they started up, including some with the original Animal House stories. Fun to sell on eBay, but I think it's gonna take up a lot of time.

gsabc wrote: Several watchers, but no bidders as yet.

There's not much point in bidding early, which just tips your hand to any snipers waiting for the last minute of the sale. (I hated that loophole, when I was semi-active buying things on eBay.)

gsabc wrote:Started putting some sports stuff on eBay. I'd forgotten I even had the stuff. Forty-year-old Red Sox and BOSTON Patriots yearbooks. Fun to flip through after all this time; the sports heroes of my youth.

Several watchers, but no bidders as yet. One question, asking if I could send more pictures. (No. eBay's interface doesn't let you send scans, and his return address was only his eBay username.)

Open up a free account on Photobucket or somesuch and you can upload more pics using the html thingies for free.

I am sure that people will start bidding in the last hour.

gsabc wrote:Started putting some sports stuff on eBay. I'd forgotten I even had the stuff. Forty-year-old Red Sox and BOSTON Patriots yearbooks. Fun to flip through after all this time; the sports heroes of my youth.

Several watchers, but no bidders as yet. One question, asking if I could send more pictures. (No. eBay's interface doesn't let you send scans, and his return address was only his eBay username.)

After the J! test, if I get ambitious, I'll do more scans for more stuff. National Lampoons from when they started up, including some with the original Animal House stories. Fun to sell on eBay, but I think it's gonna take up a lot of time.

You planning on using the proceeds for wedding funds?

peacock2121 wrote:

gsabc wrote:Started putting some sports stuff on eBay. I'd forgotten I even had the stuff. Forty-year-old Red Sox and BOSTON Patriots yearbooks. Fun to flip through after all this time; the sports heroes of my youth.

Several watchers, but no bidders as yet. One question, asking if I could send more pictures. (No. eBay's interface doesn't let you send scans, and his return address was only his eBay username.)

After the J! test, if I get ambitious, I'll do more scans for more stuff. National Lampoons from when they started up, including some with the original Animal House stories. Fun to sell on eBay, but I think it's gonna take up a lot of time.

You planning on using the proceeds for wedding funds?

Yup. Thought I'd mentioned that in the blog. Maybe it was in a regular post. I'll set up a special account in my online bank and move the proceeds there.

There are now several bids, and several more watchers. If I'm lucky, there will be a bidding war on a couple of the items. Since they're worthless to me, this is found money.

Great idea!

Combines your interest in de-cluttering and paying for the wedding.

What a wonderful plan.

I wouldn't mind you letting us know what you have up for sale - If it is something I would buy, I would.

peacock2121 wrote:Great idea!

Combines your interest in de-cluttering and paying for the wedding.

What a wonderful plan.

I wouldn't mind you letting us know what you have up for sale - If it is something I would buy, I would.

Only if you collect paper. Old magazines (Life's issue on Apollo 11, Reader's Digest with the 1977 Star Wars cover, 1984 SI Olympics edition, etc.), old humor magazines (National Lampoon, Mad), and many, many, MANY comic books and related items. Some worth a few bucks, some not but which I hope to get rid of, anyway.

The comic book price guides are collectibles themselves, but apparently not currently popular. Looked at "Completed Items", and the displayed ones didn't have a single bid. OTOH the Boston sports yearbooks from the '60's that are currently up for bid are getting some interest. I had forgotten I had them at all, and they're in surprisingly good shape.

BTW, I'm blacklab44 over there. I believe you can search on a username to find out what a seller has up for bid.

Nope - not a paper collector.

Sting is a mold-phobic. He even cringes when I bring a current magazine home from another person's house.

Just post a link to one of your auctions. From there, a person can find all your auctions by goint to the "View Sellers Other Items" link on the right hand side of that page.

Ray

rayxtwo wrote:Just post a link to one of your auctions. From there, a person can find all your auctions by goint to the "View Sellers Other Items" link on the right hand side of that page.

Ray

Okay, here's one that I've shrunk to manageable size. In honor of my Super Bowl team.
http://tinyurl.com/2yoc8s

Actually, if you go to "Advanced Search", on the left is a link to Search "Items by Seller".

I'm going over to take a look but, as much as I would like to contribute to BD's wedding fund, not to bid.

We just went through this with TLAF's garage.

I had Phillies yearbooks from the late 1950s through 1980, plus some more recent stuff. Dozens of scorecards from the 1960s and 1970s in which TLAF dutifully kept score.

Scores of Palestra Illustrateds from the 1960s and 1970s, from my first college basketball days. Temple football programs.

Newspapers from the Phillies' WS appearances in 1980 and 1993. A bunch of stuff from Villanova's national championship in 1985. Schmidt and Ashburn induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. John Chaney's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Various media guides from my sportswriting days.

A plethora of JFK related things, including LOOK magazines with serialized William Manchester, newspapers, the JFK picture that hung in our living room, JFK trading cards. Plus a 33 1/3 album with the best of JFK's speeches.

And all in pretty good shape.

We gave some of the sports stuff to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame for display when it gets a permanent home (they are going to feature rotating collections from local fans as a special area so TLAF will be recognized. Eventually.).

Tony from Bristol Auction took the rest -- Mad magazines, Playbills from the 1940s (I did keep a couple from TLAF/THFD's NYC honeymoon and second honeymoon) and sheet music (I never did get that piano).

Oh, and the political buttons. I kept the Truman and Stevenson ones and the Paul Simon bow tie but the rest went to Tony.

I kept some of the clippings -- Smarty Jones on ESPN Magazine, some of the Ashburn stuff and the Chaney stuff and the letters to TLAF/THFD from JFK thanking them for their congratulations on his election. They are in an acid-free box, sprayed for preservation.

But, the size of the box is finite. If anything else goes in, something else has to come out. It's the new rule.

It was hard. But the garage looks beautiful!

The only things in the garage now are the houses from Mellydelphia, in their plastic crates, awaiting the trip to The Boyfriend's crawl space and the jukebox, which will go to the shore.