After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

more properboxes

Continuing my current addiction to Properboxes, I have these coming from Daedalus now:
79342 DIZZY GILLESPIE STORY 14.98
49179 DUKE ELLINGTON MASTERPIECES 1926-49 24.98
59197 EDITH PIAF LOVE PASSION 24.98
69255 FRANK SINATRA ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL 24.98
79407 GYPSY JAZZ 24.98
38189 JOHNNY HODGES: JEEP IS JUMPIN 24.98
79456 LES PAUL MARY FORD PERFECT HARMONY 24.98
79115 LIGHTNIN HOPKINS TEXAS THUNDERBOLT 24.98
79321 MAXINE SULLIVAN ITS WONDERFUL 24.98
38116 SIDNEY BECHET STORY 24.98
79482 SKIFFLE & ENGLISH ROCK & ROLL 24.98
69381 SQUEEZE ME JAZZ AND SWING ACCORDION 24.98
---All are four-disc boxes with well-produced booklets, run-time about five hours per set. My discount off the above prices is 30%, bringing the $24.98 cost down to an incredible $17.49 to you. Check them out! The several I have managed to get listened to now, of the twenty-five already here, have all been hugely enjoyable. It is nice to get a lengthy overview of some mighty significant artists -- and a few obscurer ones -- many of whom I had never really heard at all. I may even want to get some of the Properboxes for artists I thought were already well-represented in my collection (Monk, Holiday, Bud Powell, etc.) I went ahead and ordered this batch now because they were down to only two remaining of the Sidney Bechet set, and one I had in my order (Young Tony Bennett) sold out while I was compiling it. A lot of this stuff I never would have thought I would want this much of, but at such bargain prices I figure I can check them out even from mere curiosity. Or maybe it is that I am getting old and wallowing in the past.

---Also these Sarx classical CDs are headed this way now too (also 30% discount, or $4.19 each):
76585 KREBS V1 ORGAN WORKS V1 5.98
76586 KREBS V2 ORGAN WORKS 5.98
76571 ORGAN MUSIC OF BACHS FAMILY 5.98

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