Ebay fun
I finally heard from Prevea on my application for Community Care. They say they'll let the rest of my $4200 medical bill go if I can come up with $700 by the end of the month. (They are clearly not as forgiving as the other medical establishments who let me off freely.)
A friend has offered to lend me the money, but I'm trying to come up with some of it myself. I don't have much to sell that's worth anything any more, but I put my two rarest soundtrack CDs on Ebay, Watership Down and Galaxy Quest. It isn't that big a wrench. For one thing, I'm starting them at $50 each, which will at least make it worth while if they sell. For another...I actually don't care to listen to them. When I bought the Watership Down CD, I was horrified to discover that I practically had every note memorized from childhood, when I had made a cassette tape copy of the library's LP. Music you have listened to too often takes on a trite feel. As to Galaxy Quest, as much as I love the movie and enjoy having a bit of rare collector's merchandise from it, I don't really care for much of it as listening-to music.
Darn, I was sure I had a copy of Krull around here, somewhere. Maybe I resold it already. It's an early James Horner soundtrack which someone convinced me was spectacular, so I paid a collector's price for it and didn't care for it. (Too over-the-top.) Oh, well. It's selling for three times what I paid for it now.
My still-in-shrinkwrap copy of Deady Sings is also up the spout, though for a lesser sum. :D I have all those Voltaire songs on his other albums. When I ordered them, the Deady Sings CD was being clearanced out at $1.99, so I bought one for the library, one for my niece who shares my nerdly interests, and kept one for collector/future gift purposes. Now it's out of print and rare. Heh, heh!
I could probably get $100 for my out-of-print Haré + Guu box set, or for my Hikaru No Go collection, but I am not yet ready to part with anime DVDs , especially not ones I truly like. I could never replace them for what I'd get for them.
Old LPs probably don't sell for enough to tempt me to part with my Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy record, or rare Gilbert & Sullivan/The Grand Duke.
Most of my disposable stuff isn't worth enough to list. I wish I had somewhere to hold a rummage sale.
A friend has offered to lend me the money, but I'm trying to come up with some of it myself. I don't have much to sell that's worth anything any more, but I put my two rarest soundtrack CDs on Ebay, Watership Down and Galaxy Quest. It isn't that big a wrench. For one thing, I'm starting them at $50 each, which will at least make it worth while if they sell. For another...I actually don't care to listen to them. When I bought the Watership Down CD, I was horrified to discover that I practically had every note memorized from childhood, when I had made a cassette tape copy of the library's LP. Music you have listened to too often takes on a trite feel. As to Galaxy Quest, as much as I love the movie and enjoy having a bit of rare collector's merchandise from it, I don't really care for much of it as listening-to music.
Darn, I was sure I had a copy of Krull around here, somewhere. Maybe I resold it already. It's an early James Horner soundtrack which someone convinced me was spectacular, so I paid a collector's price for it and didn't care for it. (Too over-the-top.) Oh, well. It's selling for three times what I paid for it now.
My still-in-shrinkwrap copy of Deady Sings is also up the spout, though for a lesser sum. :D I have all those Voltaire songs on his other albums. When I ordered them, the Deady Sings CD was being clearanced out at $1.99, so I bought one for the library, one for my niece who shares my nerdly interests, and kept one for collector/future gift purposes. Now it's out of print and rare. Heh, heh!
I could probably get $100 for my out-of-print Haré + Guu box set, or for my Hikaru No Go collection, but I am not yet ready to part with anime DVDs , especially not ones I truly like. I could never replace them for what I'd get for them.
Old LPs probably don't sell for enough to tempt me to part with my Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy record, or rare Gilbert & Sullivan/The Grand Duke.
Most of my disposable stuff isn't worth enough to list. I wish I had somewhere to hold a rummage sale.