Today I spent several hours doing stuff to sell some more of my Magic: the Gathering cards. I listed a set of common cards for auction on eBay last week, and it sold yesterday, so I had to packaged them and then walk up to the post office to send them off.
Then to finalise a deal with someone online I had to make up a checklist, count all the cards I had from an old set (Fallen Empires), record the inventory numbers, then go through an online sale site to find latest sale prices for all of the cards, and enter them into a spreadsheet to calculate the total value. Despite being several hundred cards, most of them currently sell for less than a (US) dollar each, so the total only came to about $250. But! I have a buyer and hopefully he’ll go through with the purchase and I’ll be $250 better off and have gotten rid of a huge pile of cheap cards.
Then I did the pricing process for another old set (Homelands), which I’d inventoried a week or two ago. The total price for another several hundred cards came out almost the same. Although these are old sets from the 1990s, they didn’t have any really strong/desirable cards in them, and they were printed in large quantities so they aren’t particularly hard to find, thus the low resale prices.
And today another auction ended, for a lot of 285 cards on eBay, which ended up selling for just $26. I’m kind of happy to get anything for some of these cards! None of these are the few rare/expensive cards that I have.
I also took Scully for a couple of walks, and made a quiche for dinner before my three online classes in a row tonight, so my wife could eat when she got home from work, while I was busy doing classes.
The weather today was pleasant, mildly warm, but there was a whiff of smoke in the air from controlled burning of bushland around the city, to reduce fuel load before the summer. It wasn’t so bad where I live, but I could see across the harbour to the centre of the city and the air looked very smoky there. Tomorrow we’re supposed to get a cool change and back to winter-like weather for a few days.
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