Overwhelmed...
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Quick backstory...
I recently, in the last year, transitioned to a new job. When I did that I lost the grant that I had to finish my M.A. With one student loan left from my Bachelors, I've decided to pay that off before finishing out my M.A., since I no longer have the grant paying for that. I've got 30 hours left till I'm finished.
Here's the skinny...
I'm selling at a show in two weeks. I've been told by a lot of people that this is a huge show and there will be lots of people there with money to burn. So I've decided to go for the gusto and sell off a good majority of stuff that's been sitting in the closet collecting dust and apply that money to paying off the student loan. As I've been going through it all, it's been easy to separate out stuff that will go in the 10 cent box, but I also have a TON of random inserts, refractors, etc. that I need to price out either for the 25 cent box or more.
There are 3 people consigning with me, as usual, for this show. All of their stuff is in order, but I'm super struggling with all this other stuff. Anyone have a system they use to manage all of this besides looking up EVERY.SINGLE.CARD?
Thanks for reading the blah blah blah stuff.
I recently, in the last year, transitioned to a new job. When I did that I lost the grant that I had to finish my M.A. With one student loan left from my Bachelors, I've decided to pay that off before finishing out my M.A., since I no longer have the grant paying for that. I've got 30 hours left till I'm finished.
Here's the skinny...
I'm selling at a show in two weeks. I've been told by a lot of people that this is a huge show and there will be lots of people there with money to burn. So I've decided to go for the gusto and sell off a good majority of stuff that's been sitting in the closet collecting dust and apply that money to paying off the student loan. As I've been going through it all, it's been easy to separate out stuff that will go in the 10 cent box, but I also have a TON of random inserts, refractors, etc. that I need to price out either for the 25 cent box or more.
There are 3 people consigning with me, as usual, for this show. All of their stuff is in order, but I'm super struggling with all this other stuff. Anyone have a system they use to manage all of this besides looking up EVERY.SINGLE.CARD?
Thanks for reading the blah blah blah stuff.
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Think about it. The amount of time you'll spend looking up book values for cards that you're planning to sell for 10 or 25 cents, and then actually finding a buyer, there's no way you're even making minimum wage doing this.
I'd recommend dumping it all for whatever you can get and then start over with higher value items.
<< <i>My opinion: it's not worth it to deal in low value stuff.
Think about it. The amount of time you'll spend looking up book values for cards that you're planning to sell for 10 or 25 cents, and then actually finding a buyer, there's no way you're even making minimum wage doing this.
I'd recommend dumping it all for whatever you can get and then start over with higher value items. >>
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<< <i>What ever happened with the grill? >>
LOL!!!! I was waiting for the day for someone to bring that back up. Ha! The grill, along with the ex-wife, went back to southern Indiana. I went to Home Depot and bought the one I wanted.
5 years later...new wife (who is incredibly awesome), two kids, fantastic job, same grill I bought at HD and working this spring on making a brick grill in the backyard. So all in all...pretty nice.
Maurice-
I agree. I was thinking about it this morning and came to the same conclusion. Why worry over stuff that's not going to generate a lot. Thanks for the advice.
Is there any way if you can find out if the old grill is still working? I need some closure here.