and it's going rather well. Much better than I expected, in fact.
Sunday and Monday I spent gathering photographs of everything I could think of I want to sell. By Tuesday (today) everything was set to go, I just had to compose an email to everyone I know locally that I thought might be interested in some of my stuff. It went like this (say, C'ville-ians who may see this on Charlottesville Blogs, this goes for you, too):
The skinny: The easiest way to browse is probably just to go backwards through my Flickr photostream [http://www.flickr.com/photos/blatantgizmo/]. I've also organized this in a "Collection" with subsets [http://www.flickr.com/photos/blatantgizmo/collections/72157605147800139/].
I'll be deleting items as they are snatched up. So if you see it today, but don't tomorrow, that's that. Just send a note if you'd like to buy something, want more info or want to see something in person. Oh, and keep checking back as I may find stuff I didn't know I didn't want to keep.
I clicked "send" at 1:05pm. I was immediately email/IM-bombed by people wanting stuff. By 1:43pm I had made $263. Unbelievable. Now, by made I mean folks had called dibs -- I won't collect money until items are distributed, either by cash or e-checks (woo!). So, in under 40 minutes names were taken down, amounts were tallied, a handy spreadsheet was whipped-up and respective items were deleted from Flickr. I had no idea this would be so successful. Even if I don't sell anything else I'll still consider this a success.
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