Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The project that just won’t go away.

Just a little upset right now, I have taken 2 days of vacation to finish up the server installation project I have been working on and unfortunitly I still have more work to do on it. So another half of day of vacation is what I am bound for. What a sucky way to spend you vacation, I mean thus far I have spent 70 + hours of my time for chump change (not even minimum wage at this point) and they have the audacity to go behind my back and get a quote for installing wireless. THEN ask me if that is a good deal, when that is what they originally wanted me to do for them and THEY decided not to do, what audacity. I should have let them pay the additional 500 bucks to get it done (I did it in under 1 minute, free of charge). It is just such a smack to my face to have them place so little confidence in me when all the problems I have had were hardware/software related and not my ignorance. I just want this to be done.

Anyway, on to something else…I have decided that I must sell my anime collection. 4000+ dollars worth of stuff…cries. But I have no choice, what is the point of keeping things that I may never watch again when I can sell them and get some kind of return for it? So after looking at Ebay and some other sites that actually buy your used DVD’s (for next to nothing I might add <_<) it was determined Amazon is my friend. I knew I wasn’t going to get what I paid for them and there is the risk no one will buy them but what was it going to hurt to try?

So Amazon lets me set the price allowing me to see what others have theirs listed at and all for a 15% fee at time of sale. They give you 2.98 per listing worth of shipping credit, no big deal but that is about the average shipping costs for USPS. After listing every thing in my collection, it all comes to 2,800 retail or 2,600ish take home (before actual shipping charges). So I might wind up with about 2 grand all said and done. Not bad, but will they sale? After 8 days I have had 18 orders as follows:

Total Payments Received: USD 373.62
Total Payments Canceled: USD 35.98
Total Payment Fees: USD -88.30
Grand Total: USD 321.30

Not bad at all and hopefully the rest will sale just the same. If you are interested here is my storefront! Please help a brother out? lol
My Amazon Storefront

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