More astonishingly reprehensive tat (and a few things that are actually pretty decent but I know I'll never listen to them again) has found its way onto eBay for the unsuspecting...

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...&sort=3&rows=50

Um, yes, there is a record on there by Fish. Him out of Marillion. I met him because he played for free in a Bristol record shop and I thought I should get something signed. I was much younger at the time and I'm really really really sorry.

About a quarter of the CDs on there are things I've failed to sell previously. I wonder why?

"SMASH - I want to kill somebody".

Sounds great, and Beck too. Mmmmm.


/sarcastic nasty.

I'm supposed to be bigging this stuff up so that people buy it, but that S*M*A*S*H record is truly atrocious. I'm not saying things like this elsewhere (well, I'm not saying things anywhere else at all) but I'm a little too well known on here to want to start lying...

Another 21 of the blighters now on there!

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...&sort=3&rows=50

Believe it or not, this isn't the last of it...

Astonishingly, of the 51 items on there, that was the first one to get a bid.

Except - ahem - when I say 51, I mean 66 as I have added yet more. Will this be the last of it? Take a guess...

Don't you find that the listing fees on all the unsold items make it uneconomical to put stuff on Ebay? They haven't had a free listing day for ages.

If they only go for the basic price then yes, but anyway here's the maths... If I list an item at 99p and it sells for 99p...

Listing - 15p
Jiffy bag - 17p (I get them cheap)
Final value fee - 5p
Postage - 60p (sometimes 48p)

Total - 97p (or 85p).

Against that I've charged a quid for postage, so I get £1.99. If the person pays by PayPal, I lose about another 10p. So it's hardly the road to riches but I usually don't lose out. As for unsold fees, surprisingly little doesn't sell, but if I really can't get rid of it, I wait for a free day and start it again at 1p and that usually does it. Plus quite a few of them will go for more than 99p. Last time I did this, I sold about 25 singles and made £44. And as you can tell, I have mountains of stuff (some of it unspeakable, yep) and if I can get rid of it without actually losing money then that's a bonus!

Fair enough. I've sold a few things and it's felt quite satisfying, even if I haven't made much out of it. It is exciting seeing the bids going up. But it's putting the time in I resent - would rather spend five minutes dragging a box of them round the corner to the charity shop than a couple of weekends parcelling them up individually and standing in the queue at the Post Office. It feels like a waste for about half an hour ("I could have made hundreds of pounds from those!") but then I look at my nice empty shelves and it's a relief I haven't got to think about it any more. Plus I think that not making any money out of my old CDs is making me more careful about buying piles of not-very-good records in the first place. I used to think "Ah it's OK, I can always sell them again..." but now I'm more realistic.

Most of mine end up in Oxfam in Twickenham - and most of them are still clogging up their shelves...

Yep - I didn't do charity shops for two reasons, firstly because most of them probably won't sell there (eBay guarantees a massive audience) and secondly because until I'm earning a top flight salary I need whatever I can get... I don't want to rent for the rest of my life!

My ambition is not to earn a fortune, because I've never been materialistic (records are my only real vice, and even then not as much as they were - as you can see from the mountains of crap I'm flogging)... but I would like to be in a position to be more charitable.

Wow! From crap CDs to minor confessional in the space of a couple of posts...

If I was still living with my parents, there would be no point in clogging up the charity shops of Cambridgeshire, but on my road in London, the CD racks of the charity shops empty/re-fill/empty/re-fill/empty on a weekly basis, so I know I'm doing some immediate good by giving them new stock.

... and seven more random selections. That's it now... until I borrow a digital camera again!

Edit: incidentally, I'm currently house (and cat) sitting for my parents for three weeks while they're abroad. Many of my old CDs are here plus they have extremely fast web access... hence this recent activity!

30 of them close today. Most of them aren't selling for some reason. Grab a bargain... I mean, what better use could you have for 99p? Apart from, I don't know, buying some cocktail sticks and making an installation or a million other random things...

It may surprise some of you to know that I've never had a sales job in my life.

Hot tip: got a load of old singles? Throw all of them away except for the ones by Tori Amos and just sell them. Much easier.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MESE:IT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MESE:IT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MESE:IT

Two of them are set to make more (each) than all 30 of mine that closed yesterday...

Still a few more items on there for the next couple of days at (ahem) bargain prices.

But it's not all selling, oh no...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=4042012423

Joy!

I'd be rather jealous if I hadn't got hold of that on eBay a few months ago.

This seems like a good opportunity to look for more Silver Sun stuff on there... and there's not a lot. Oh well.

I want to sell some stuff, but I suspect I'd end up paying more in listing fees and postage than I earn from sales.

I'm selling more bilge at an utterly insane price if anyone's interested...

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...&sort=3&rows=50

...all the dodgy stuff I still can't get rid of!

What? Are you selling the Hormones? I like them, and Marc Caroll the singer made an excellent album a while ago...
I would buy them if i didnt already have them.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...4049774978&rd=1


:huh:

Well... I first became aware of them when CJ from The Wildhearts briefly got involved with them - I saw them live then bought the 'Are You With Us?' single which is great - not selling that. But then I found the subsequent singles pretty bland. And CJ left.

They're not bad records, but I've got far too much old stuff cluttering the place up that I know I'll never play again.

I know, I know. There isn't much evidence pointing towards me growing up, but perhaps that's one thing. And I still have the album.

Ooh! Lightning Seeds!