Best way to Sell Old, Used Software and SW/dev Books w/little Collectible Value?

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jul 27 21:53:00 2003

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From: "Don Wallace" <dwallace_at_m-net.arbornet.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: Best way to Sell Old, Used Software and SW/dev Books w/little
Collectible Value?


> Hi,
>
> My first time posting here - apologies if I should have RTFM first on
> this topic.
>
> I have a mountain of dated (late 80s - early 90s vintage) and probably
> non-collectible software packages and books that it seems to me would
> be a waste to consign to a landfill.
>
> I mean stuff like:
>
> Clipper 5.2
> Corel Draw (Win 3.1) Version 4
> Quattro Pro for DOS
> Ami Pro for Win 3.1
> Star Trek Screen Saver (ca. 1992)
> Borland C++ 3.1 for Windows and DOS with Application Frameworks
>
> Books such as "advanced c-struct programming" (OOP on C), Peter
> Norton's "Inside OS/2", Alan Holub's "Compiler Design in C", several
> different DOS and BIOS interrupt references, a book on device drivers
> for DOS (yechhh!)...
>
> When I think of all the money I squandered on this cr$p in past years
> so I could stay in place with idiot employers and not even advance, I
> want to go GAAAAH!
>
> I *also* want, if possible, to make a buck or two off the lot or
> individually, and remove it from my view and from my basement. The
> Rubbermaid containers it's in are probably worth much more than this
> stuff is worth. Maybe.
>
> I doubt that most of this stuff is even worth paying the advertising
> fee on Ebay, and there's a LOT of it.
>
> Maybe the thing to do would be to advertise a few of the "better"
> pieces (like the Holub book) on Ebay, and in that ad on Ebay link to
> "other articles for sale". Just to generate traffic from the Ebay
> placement.
>
> Ideas? Know of any brokers that would take the entire lot?
>
> Or, know of any Luddite communities that eschew sinful protected mode
> OSs in favor of simple, uncomplicated DOS and 286 level software that
> penalizes the sinful user with random lockups? :-) OK, that was
> reaching...
>
> Thanks!
Received on Sun Jul 27 2003 - 21:53:00 BST