Re: Flea markets, Con auctions and swap-and-sell Re: [OT] Selling Figs, old game

At 10:22 AM 11/1/00 EST, you wrote:
>I appologize if it seemed like I was trying to make out flea markets as
a 
>way to get rich.  The advantage they have over internet sales is that
you 
>get the cash in hand immediately.  I've seen way too many "bad trader"
posts 
>over the last several years and heard too many horror stories about
ebay to 
>personally want to go that route.

I've had good experiences with PayPal -- it's nice and quick, and I've
had
no errors at all.

>However, if someone here does use ebay - pipe up.  What has it been
like?  
>Tell us the good and the bad.	Now I am interested, because I have
several 
>models I want to sell (mainly the larger scale B5 miniatures as I have 
>converted to the Fleet Action scale.)

Other than having some checks stolen out of my mailbox, no problems at
all.
 I've gotten good prices for what I've sold -- especially old GW
figures.
I sold Judges Fear, Fire, and Mortis for a very good price indeed.

As of yet, gaming with a group of people who have been buying entire
armies
through ebay, not a single horror story to be heard.  Not to say that
bad
things don't happen...just not to me or my friends so far.

John X Crimmins
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They control information.  Don't ever piss one off."
  --Spider Robinson, The Callahan Touch.