Stuff and nonsense. Random entry

[valis2]

The more I think about it, the more I want to join the cult of tags, as scarah2 put it. So often I want to find an old post and I end up wandering through the archive view aimlessly. Plus it appeals to the OCD side of me as well.
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More insanity on eBay. I decided to clean up my video game stuff. I have effectively cut my portions of my video game collection in half (and it's a decent collection). I sold a batch on eBay last week, and I'm doing a batch this week.

The cool thing is, I bought a few games at one point in the mid-nineties, and never opened them. Two of them are much desired RPGs, and one went for a good price last week. So I just put the other brand-new RPG, and eBay does this thing where if you have the UPC/ISBN of something, you can find out what it sells for on average. Well, this RPG is a bit rare, for an obscure system, and it sells on average for $44. And being unopened, it could be more. I'm expecting another good price like last week, though who knows.

So what's the insanity? Well, within 24 hours of putting up these games, I've already received eight messages from people offering me a higher price to end the auction now so they can buy it. Two people have offered to buy that unopened RPG. One person offered me $15 for it AND one of the other auctions together. Another didn't put a price in at all. A third offered me $10 for two other auctions, but I'm just going to let the auction proceed for all of them and see what happens, though it will probably bite me on the ass, as these things often do.

It's really funny, though, because nobody has almost ever asked me these things in the other categories I sell in. Just the video game category. Which makes me wonder...are they honest, or are they just trying to get away with a steal? I *really* hope that the game sells for what I think it will sell for. If it sells for less than $10 I'm going to be sad. But there are eight watchers already, and it's only day one, so I have a good feeling about it.
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I thought I had a show tomorrow. It's on my calendar. Turns out it is next Saturday. *rolls eyes at self* And gina_r_snape kindly prevented me from wasting a trip to the post office. It's Veteran's Day, after all. I have such a headache and I feel like such a diz.
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There are days where I think, I approached this person the same as another did, tried to put my best foot forward, and still, I end up not getting where I wanted, whereas the other person succeeded, and it seems to prove to me that I have this oddball vibe that turns some people off. Even in the online world I have this feeling that I've alienated people and not known about it directly, and that I still radiate this weird desperation-uncomfortableness that makes people head for the hills.

I have no idea why I'm feeling so hung up on things this past week or so. I think that part of it is knowing that winter is coming, and part of it is that I'm really driving myself crazy about this story. I need to finish it so I can stop worrying about it.

And don't worry too much about it, honest. Tomorrow there will be an ode to a mango or a half-eaten donut or something and I'll be back on the normal valis wagon. It's just today I feel ugh.

Comments

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

There are games that people will pay sick amounts for, especially RPGs. Oh, back before they reissued FFT, that always went for ridiculous amounts on eBay.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

FFT? Which game is that?

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Final Fantasy Tactics. 60+ hours of animated strategy fun.

with a vicious learning curve in places

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yeah, I remember that game. People were obsessed with it, honestly.

I like the FF series a lot, and the Phantasy Star series tremendously, especially IV, that was terrific. The first one was ridiculously hard, though, and took me ages to beat.

[athenakt.livejournal.com]

I agree- it's possible those people are trying to get the games as a steal (literally). Unfortunately, inexperienced sellers may fall for such tactics. I'd advise putting a reasonable reserve on the unopened game. Search ebay for other people selling the same title, check Amazon.com for a price, and decide what it should go for at minimum- it should be higher than the used game price. Keep in mind that you'll need to add on some shipping when deciding on your reserve price.

You'll do alright. :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I already mailed them back saying that I wasn't interested, and that the auction would run for the full seven days.

I didn't bother with reserves for any of it...I never have. Honestly, I'm not worried. The unopened game already has nine watchers, and I don't remember paying much for the game in the first place, and based on last week's unopened game delight, I have a feeling that this will go well.

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

There are days where I think, I approached this person the same as another did, tried to put my best foot forward, and still, I end up not getting where I wanted, whereas the other person succeeded, and it seems to prove to me that I have this oddball vibe that turns some people off. Even in the online world I have this feeling that I've alienated people and not known about it directly, and that I still radiate this weird desperation-uncomfortableness that makes people head for the hills.

I have similar feelings sometimes. And it does work online. I've been on groups/in chats and someone will come in and say hello and forty people jump to say hello back. I come in and a couple people say hi. Some people get hundreds of "oh no" and "poor you" responses when they write they've had a bad day. I get suicidally depressed and very few people give a crap. It is weird.

Of course, I am a very strange person and keep getting stranger as I age. I care less and less about what other people think, and so many of the social filters are coming down. Being polite gets me treated like garbage in return, so it leaves me little reason to behave myself.

I'm bitter and I know it. Imagine what a nasty lil' old lady I'll be.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I often think that there is this vague undefined cloud that everyone else can see that hangs around me. Plus I'm already socially awkward, so that doesn't help.

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Me too.

S'weird, because you're one of the LJ people I know who lives fairly close to me. I'm on the Iowa-Illinois border. I've never met anyone I talk to on LJ.

[jen-deben.livejournal.com]

*boggles* Gee, I think you're both great. Neither of you should be feeling like outcasts, imo.

Getting comments in LJ space seems to require a combination of being on people's flist, so they know you exist, and posting something they can relate to. I think most people do care, very much, when they hear someone is feeling suicidal, but it's also something that freaks them out entirely. They become scared to comment, for fear of saying the wrong thing. It's not that they don't care, it's that they don't know what to say that will help.

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Actually, I feel like less of an outcast on LJ than most other places, even internet. I created my LJ account using my secondary e-mail address, the one I created to experiment with spam. (It still gets zero spam.) I had never gone into the realm of slash or adult fic before, except if I already knew the writer, and I knew few.

Perhaps the slashers are more accepting, since I still behave the same as I ever did.

I know it's hard to hear that someone's that far down. I've been there and had no response, or basically been told that I was wrong or bad for feeling that way, which does nothing to make me feel any better.

There's not really a right thing to say. When I find someone who is that down, and I have run across several on the net, I tell them that I've been there and had no one to talk to. They can talk to me if they want. Or rant, or anything. Sometimes, it's enough to keep busy for a little while until the danger passes.

Don't mean to be getting all oratory. I get so depressed and I've got lots of experience with being alone or left out. So many times, people seem to think that they are the first ones who have ever left me out of anything when it's happened all my life. I'm used to it, but it tires me sometimes. It is fortunate that I usually am able to make my way on my own and that I enjoy things that way most of the time.