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Day: October 25, 2010

I Made a Sale on Yardsellr

On October 25, 2010 By Michel McDonaldIn Books, Products I Like1 Comment

I woke up this morning and ate breakfast then got on the computer.  When I opened my email I was excited because I made my first sale on Yardsellr.

It was a book called “Programming Perl” which was given to me for Christmas 1999 by a former employer.  It was one of his books and I think because I was a mere (temp) employee,  I wasn’t worth a brand new present.  I guess he was thinking “hmmm… what should we give Mike?  Oh look, here’s a book that I don’t need anymore…”

That wasn’t the only thing he gave me and I was grateful to get anything at all.  I wasn’t expecting anything and it was nice that he gave me the things he did give me.  But… it sat in a box for about 6 years and when I started reading (novels) I took it out of the box to fill up space on my bookshelf.  I have no need for this book since I am not a programmer and never will be.

I put the book on my website yard sale and when I put stuff on Yardsellr, I wasn’t sure if it would even sell since it’s so old.  Everything progresses so fast in the computer world.  If you have a computer from the 90’s it’s a dinosaur, actually if you have a computer from 2005 it’s considered a dinosaur.  So if a computer can be a dinosaur that fast then perhaps this book being 11+ years old is definitely a dinosaur.

I sold it for $5 plus I charged $4 for shipping and I’m glad I did because it cost me $3.70 to ship it media mail plus packaging and a tracking number.  If I had charged $2 for shipping I would’ve been screwed.

I just looked at my PayPal account and I already got my $9.  I’ve been waiting all day for PayPal to send me an email saying I got money but never got it so it’s a good thing I looked.  Yardsellr says if you get a tracking number you will get the money right away, otherwise you have to wait 3 days to get the money.  The tracking number cost me .80¢ but it was well worth it to get the money today.

I never thought something of mine would sell so fast, I figured it would take at least a month or 2 (or 3).  Although one sale doesn’t guarantee anything for the rest of what I have there but it’s a start.

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