Monday, June 09, 2008
selling stuff
But first: has anything ever been more frustrating than this Braves team? Other than maybe the Braves teams of '07 and '06?
Okay, I never get rid of things. I'm a ridiculous pack-rat. It pisses my wife off. I probably have over a hundred promo cds I've listened to no more than twice clogging up our bookshelves. I have a serious problem. I'm trying to rectify that. The other week I cleaned out my video game shelf, trading a couple dozen games into Gamestop. Mostly older GameCube and PS2 games, both games I never got into and ones that I loved at the time but would probably never revisit. Only a few were worth more than a few dollars individually, like Metroid Hunters for the DS and Super Smash Brothers Melee (which they're actually charging more for used since Brawl came out, which makes no sense). I didn't think I'd get much for 'em, but overall I got more than a hundred dollars in trade-in value, enough to pick up new copies of GTA IV (maybe you've heard of it?) and No More Heroes (um, completely fucking awesome), and a used copy of God Hand (super repetitive, maybe not all that great, but entertaining in its inscrutable Japan-ness). It might be kind of a rip-off, overall, but Gamestop will take any game, and paid me for completely worthless shit like All Star Baseball 2001 and that horrible Donald Duck game I bought for five bucks six years ago. So yes, good move on my part.
I'm now going through my cds, ripping the ones I still like but wouldn't mind parting with. I'm sitting at 50 or so to go trade in to Newbury Comics. I discovered that I have a couple of cds that are worth a surprising amount of money. Apparently Modest Mouse's Interstate 8 ep is out of print, and goes for twenty to fifty bucks on-line. Even more shocking, the 1995 Infinite Zero reissue of Tom Verlaine's Dreamtime, a copy of which I bought brand new for six dollars at a drug store in Marietta, currently costs $90 to $125 dollars through the few Amazon retailers selling used copies. That's completely ridiculous. I'd be thrilled if I could get half that on eBay.
Anyway, do cd stores even still buy used cds? Did I miss that boat by a couple of years or so?
But first: has anything ever been more frustrating than this Braves team? Other than maybe the Braves teams of '07 and '06?
Okay, I never get rid of things. I'm a ridiculous pack-rat. It pisses my wife off. I probably have over a hundred promo cds I've listened to no more than twice clogging up our bookshelves. I have a serious problem. I'm trying to rectify that. The other week I cleaned out my video game shelf, trading a couple dozen games into Gamestop. Mostly older GameCube and PS2 games, both games I never got into and ones that I loved at the time but would probably never revisit. Only a few were worth more than a few dollars individually, like Metroid Hunters for the DS and Super Smash Brothers Melee (which they're actually charging more for used since Brawl came out, which makes no sense). I didn't think I'd get much for 'em, but overall I got more than a hundred dollars in trade-in value, enough to pick up new copies of GTA IV (maybe you've heard of it?) and No More Heroes (um, completely fucking awesome), and a used copy of God Hand (super repetitive, maybe not all that great, but entertaining in its inscrutable Japan-ness). It might be kind of a rip-off, overall, but Gamestop will take any game, and paid me for completely worthless shit like All Star Baseball 2001 and that horrible Donald Duck game I bought for five bucks six years ago. So yes, good move on my part.
I'm now going through my cds, ripping the ones I still like but wouldn't mind parting with. I'm sitting at 50 or so to go trade in to Newbury Comics. I discovered that I have a couple of cds that are worth a surprising amount of money. Apparently Modest Mouse's Interstate 8 ep is out of print, and goes for twenty to fifty bucks on-line. Even more shocking, the 1995 Infinite Zero reissue of Tom Verlaine's Dreamtime, a copy of which I bought brand new for six dollars at a drug store in Marietta, currently costs $90 to $125 dollars through the few Amazon retailers selling used copies. That's completely ridiculous. I'd be thrilled if I could get half that on eBay.
Anyway, do cd stores even still buy used cds? Did I miss that boat by a couple of years or so?
