I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have, and would appreciate any advice on the best way to go about doing so. The collection has grown over the past 15 years to far larger than I am able to handle at the current time. I do not have a complete inventory of the current collection, but it is a mixture of complete machines and spare parts. Is there some place I could drop off machines, 'free to a good home' or offer stuff 'free for the price of shipping/handling'? -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have, and would appreciate any advice on the best way to go about doing so. The collection has grown over the past 15 years to far larger than I am able to handle at the current time.
I do not have a complete inventory of the current collection, but it is a mixture of complete machines and spare parts.
Is there some place I could drop off machines, 'free to a good home' or offer stuff 'free for the price of shipping/handling'?
I recommend the consignment room at VCF East XIII, if you can wait until next spring. If not, then start working on an inventory and post here.
Taking pictures of what you have might help, you can look through them to build a list and interested people can do the same. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:39 AM VCF Gmail via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have, and would appreciate any advice on the best way to go about doing so. The collection has grown over the past 15 years to far larger than I am able to handle at the current time.
I do not have a complete inventory of the current collection, but it is a mixture of complete machines and spare parts.
Is there some place I could drop off machines, 'free to a good home' or offer stuff 'free for the price of shipping/handling'?
I recommend the consignment room at VCF East XIII, if you can wait until next spring.
If not, then start working on an inventory and post here.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
Pun intended " I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have..." - It's easy to do it badly, just put the entire thing on Craigslist and sell everything at best offer prices. It's a pain in the butt to sell things off, but if you put one thing on Ebay per day, in a year you'll have 365 less things to worry about. You have to box and weigh in advance, give a good shipping quote, take good pictures, etc. Make a system. You'll do best if you put steady quality effort into the sale of your items. Bundle the ephemera in with the hardware - i.e. include the manuals and software. If you don't have time or energy for all that, understood. Find someone you trust to do it for you and pay them fairly. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Taking pictures of what you have might help, you can look through them to build a list and interested people can do the same.
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:39 AM VCF Gmail via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have, and would appreciate any advice on the best way to go about doing so. The collection has grown over the past 15 years to far larger than I am able to handle at the current time.
I do not have a complete inventory of the current collection, but it is a mixture of complete machines and spare parts.
Is there some place I could drop off machines, 'free to a good home' or offer stuff 'free for the price of shipping/handling'?
I recommend the consignment room at VCF East XIII, if you can wait until next spring.
If not, then start working on an inventory and post here.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
The consignment room is a great idea. On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, VCF Gmail via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 02:39:20 -0400 From: VCF Gmail via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: VCF Gmail <evan@vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Collection downsizing
I very badly need to downsize the collection of computers and computer ephemera I have, and would appreciate any advice on the best way to go about doing so. The collection has grown over the past 15 years to far larger than I am able to handle at the current time.
I do not have a complete inventory of the current collection, but it is a mixture of complete machines and spare parts.
Is there some place I could drop off machines, 'free to a good home' or offer stuff 'free for the price of shipping/handling'?
I recommend the consignment room at VCF East XIII, if you can wait until next spring.
If not, then start working on an inventory and post here.
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