eBay Joy

It's been awhile for me to sell stuff on eBay, but my geek shelf space was too full, so I recently sold 12 board games there. The auctions themselves went alright, and I always go into eBay with the expectation someone is going to ask a silly question, or two, or many, and something may go wrong along the way, which helps me not to get needlessly worked up over what amounts to be small annoyances.

This time was a bit more challenging though, as some of the boxes were overly large, and I had to hand-wrap 2 to be able to mail. Then I grossly underestimated shipping. Lesson learned #1. Lesson learned #2 - track everything! It's only 75 cents here, and I had a winning bidder's bank retract the PayPal payment, and it was my most expensive sell of the lot (a HeroScape promo figure a gaming buddy helped me get). I indeed got a bit upset, as I was out ~$33, didn't have the item, and he left positive feedback, yet because I could not provide the tracking number, I would be basically screwed if he didn't straighten this out. Well, he did, and was apologetic and all turned out well, but tracking, tracking, and tracking is the way, apparently.

Even with the shipping bath I gave myself, I was able to get the following, and still have monies leftover:
- Spinal Tap OST (Original Soundtrack)
- Logan's Run DVD
- The Hobbot/LotR animated classics on DVD
- Final Fantasy 8 OST
- Kingdom Hearts OST
- a nice blue neon wall clock (simple/large/neat; heavy and pricey to ship though)
- Pandemic expansion
- Race for the Galaxy expansion
- mini-European card sleeves
- American Pie DVD
- Tron 20th anniv DVD

Numeric-wise, I sold 12 items, and turned around and bought 12, so it may seem silly, but the games take up way more space, and I am glad people are enjoying them more than I did. They were good games, but I just wasn't playing them much currently.

Then last week, I put up 20 items: mostly kids movies and PS2 games that we haven't touched in ages, as well as a Magic Pre-Con of Slivers. The last one is the only one going for more than $1, but I didn't expect much. Not sure if it was worth the effort, but that's OK. More PayPal monies to come.

And on another note, looking forward to GenCon later this week. I have no planned purchases, so we'll see how this goes.

I haven't been blogging much lately - been using Status updates on FB to quasi-blog there. I suppose it's good as it keeps my verbosity in check.