Now I'm selling some books

POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 03:20
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ECGORDON

Monday, July 25, 2011 1:33 AM

Over the past month I've sold a bunch of DVDs and CDs, and I am grateful for the Browncoats who helped me out (and hopefully they feel they got a good deal). This week I'm selling some books. Won't make a whole lot of money on them but it will free up a lot of space. As before, I will combine shipping on multiple items.

http://shop.ebay.com/templetongate/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A10%257C66%2
53A4%257C39%253A1&rt=nc&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1

I realize this is the forum I should have used the other times. I put the thread about DVDs in "Other SF series" since most of what I was selling fell into that category, and then the CD thread was in "Talk Story." This will probably be it for a while, although if things get desperate enough I might think about parting with some of my Firefly memorabilia, as much as it pains me to think of that.

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 25, 2011 6:23 PM

I just got the Space Trilogy.

There are some good books there! Check it out everyone!

The laughing Chrisisall

DMI

Monday, July 25, 2011 9:25 PM

Grabbing the lot of 7 classic novels and the sherlock holmes book as soon as ebay emails me my password (blurg). Thanks Eco!

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

ECGORDON

Monday, July 25, 2011 11:39 PM

Thanks guys. I'll get them in the mail tomorrow.

DMI, I got your email about the change of address, but you should have waited to pay since I would have combined the two items and given you a break on the postage. But it is much appreciated. Just in case you take another look at what I have for sale and decide you want some others, you can make the commitment to buy but don't pay until you send me a note about it and I'll reduce the postage on that package.

And BTW, my username is ecgordon, not ecogordon. As in E.C.Gordon, the main character in Heinlein's Glory Road. So the abbreviation would be ec or EC, not eco.

KWICKO

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:25 AM

That copy of Niven's "Patchwork Girl" is kinda hard to come by, if memory serves. I spent a good while tracking mine down many years ago.

Sorry to see you part with these, EC. Hopefully they'll go to loving homes and be read and re-read many times over by new generations!

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

DMI

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:31 AM

No worries on the postage. I am a Heinlein fan as you probably surmised, but I haven't gotten around to Glory Road just yet so I missed the reference.

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

CALHOUN

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:39 AM

Meh..

I wanted to buy lots of those books and got all excited only to have "only ships to US" slap me in the face....

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:43 AM

I might make an exception for a Browncoat, Calhoun, but international postage has gone up a lot in the last couple of years. It might not be economical for you to have to pay that much for shipping.

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
That copy of Niven's "Patchwork Girl" is kinda hard to come by, if memory serves.

I guess it's a good thing I had two copies.

KWICKO

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I might make an exception for a Browncoat, Calhoun, but international postage has gone up a lot in the last couple of years. It might not be economical for you to have to pay that much for shipping.

No kidding. Small flat-rate USPS international box is $11.35. Medium flat-rate (would hold 5 books, most likely) is $45.50! And UPS and FedEx are much higher.

I ship a lot of stuff internationally, and people always think I'm trying to screw 'em on the shipping - and I have to insist that I'm charging them ONLY what I'm being charged, not adding on a penny!

CALHOUN

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:58 AM

Quote:
ecgordon wrote:
Monday, July 25, 2011 16:43
I might make an exception for a Browncoat, Calhoun, but international postage has gone up a lot in the last couple of years. It might not be economical for you to have to pay that much for shipping.

I buy books through abebooks.com all the time and get books regularly from the UK and US for not too bad a postage price.

The ones I was interested in are Lewis-Narnia, Frank Herbert, Hamilton & Clarke. What do you think the postage for those 4 bundles to Australia postcode 2278 would be?

NOOCYTE

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:59 AM

Hey, EC. Just ordered the Frank Herbert lot, and I'm fair jumping up and down in my seat in anticipation (terribly undignified, actually). I've read depressingly little by Herbert outside of the Dune series (to which I return every few years, and a large number of quotes from which I've transcribed into a blank book I got for Christmas one year. Periodically, I turn to random pages and strive to live the message that impresses itself on my consciousness [seldom the same, no matter how many times I land on a given quote]. Weird, huh?).

Anyway, FWIW, these books go to a VERY appreciative home, where books are treated FAR better than jewelry (what little of it there is in the aforementioned home). May the space so liberated in your home be put to fruitful use, friend!

Department of Redundancy Department

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:04 AM

Calhoun, the Herbert books have already been purchased by Noocyte, but I will check on the other three and get back to you. No guarantee someone else won't snag them before then though.

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:07 AM

Damn, someone's been busy buying books this morning! In just the ten or fifteen minutes I was checking other things around the net, a ton of the book lots have been purchased. Haven't had the time to see if they were all by the same person, but the Peter Hamilton and Narnia books are no longer available, in addition to fourteen others. Not many left after that.

EDIT: Not sure how long this will be the case, but as of this moment, 6:10AM US Central time, the only lots left are Asimov, Clarke, Crichton, Crowley and del Rey.

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:14 AM

I hope a certain someone reads this. I do appreciate all the books just purchased, and I will ship as quickly as possible but it will probably have to be in multiple packages. BUT, it would also be nice if that same certain person would give me feedback on the DVDs purchased over a month ago.

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:16 AM

And now, Asimov, Clarke and Crichton are the only ones left.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:25 PM

Asimov bump!

The laughing Chrisisall

ECGORDON

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:08 AM

I guess the bump worked. The Asimov books have sold, now just Clarke and Crichton left.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:20 AM

Clark & Crichton bump!!