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DarthClem

I know a lot of people who hate eBay/PayPal.  While I don't love their pricing policies, there is something strangely addicting about selling stuff on eBay.  I find that I kind of get on a roll once I start selling.  I sell a couple of games or an old DVD player and suddenly I'm looking all over my house thinking "what else can I sell?"


It's especially cool when you find something you own (like an out of print DVD or a duplicate Lego set you picked up on clearance) now selling for 4 or 5 times what you paid for it.  Once, while cleaning out an old file cabinet at work, I found a still sealed copy of MS-DOS 3.3.  I got out on eBay and was amazed to see what it was selling for as a "computer antique".  One man's trash truly is another man's treasure.

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NotStyro·
DOS 3.3?! I've got copies of 2.x (now with subdirectories!) with manuals. Maybe even a copy of 1.x somewhere in this mess. \r \r I don't know why anyone would really want these diskettes. If you try to read them the drive w/r head will scrape off the oxide....
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CofC·
I think what you are doing is great and shows a lot of savvy. I need to master it as well. \r
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UnwashedMass·
Dude- \r I LOVE Paypal- 'cause it has allowed me to build rockets. How's that for some \"Circle of Life\" shizzle?\r \r Who knew that selling a toaster with a naked dude's reflection in it would eventually pay for my salary? Or old car parts would inadvertantly help fund the new parts on the newest commercial space vehicle? \r \r Crazy stuff! :)
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RyanFromVegas·
My friend sold an empty bottle of absolute from his trash can for like $10...ebay is amazing.\r \r Turns out the buyer had a business turning alcohol bottles into lava lamps and had more demand than his local bars could keep up with...so as stupid as we thought he was, he made about $30 profit on our $10 bottle.