Sell/give magazines or throw them away?

[ThatGuy]

I have a large bunch of magazines, probably around 200, from the late 80s and early 90s. Many of them are Amiga mags (mostly British) but there are many general and a few Commodore ones. I can no longer spare the space for them, and no longer have the nostalgia to keep them.

My first thought was to given them away to people interested in them, but I figured it won't be easy to find such people. Even though I searched and found AmiBay, and thought maybe to sell through it, it seems like a hassle to do the work of sorting them and listing them when I'm not sure there's even demand. I also have a collection of diskettes for them, but I'm not sure if the data has survived the years.

I would have listed just the general list of mags, to judge interest, but I'm worried that it will go against the site rules.

Any suggestion what to do? I did carry them all up and sorted at least the Amiga ones (without the diskettes), but I really don't want them to sit here.

 

[miggymad]

List them as freebies, with shipping to be paid by the interested member(s) ?

 

[ThatGuy]

List them as freebies, with shipping to be paid by the interested member(s) ?

That still requires quite a bit of work just to get going, just to create a full list of them.

What I'd have liked to start with is just a list of which mags and approximate years, without actually checking what issues I have, and just get an idea what people would like. But I think this would go against how this site works.

Edit: But I could start with the Amiga magazines, which I've already catalogued, even though I haven't matched the diskettes to them.

Edit 2: I just checked the posting prices and they're completely unreasonable (would cost about 25 GBP to send one magazine to the UK. Although sending a bunch of them would be lower per magazine). Which makes me doubt that anyone would want them.

 

[roy_bates]

either,dont throw them somebody will more than likley want them

 

[Amiga Forever]

I am thinking of doing same because it is really hard to shift those Retro Mags

 

[Boing-ball]

Why not add them to other things you are selling as a free gift? I.e put a couple of mags in with each sale. Had something similar happen to me once. Bought something off the other bay. Also got a free new music CD. When I asked the seller why he sent me the CD as well. Got the answer of it’s a free gift.

 

[Amiga Forever]

I have all those mags that you have heard of

GameMaster(1 or 2 mags)
Loads of Retro Gamer(some of best front cover u have seen and they not cheap buy when selling really high price in the shop compare to CVG 1985 like peanut!)
Games
Commodore force
ZZAP (Cant beat classic mags )
Some Amiga format
Some CU Amiga

other mags that I kept are Maxium video games(there only 7 ISSUES of them been made and it was discouniue as brilliant Mags as up there with Ultimate Future Game Magazine or Arcade mags)

and you can check my history lists of Video game mags there blow of my blogs.

Game Magazines from the Past!

I remember some of Amazing Games Mags such as CVG(Computer Video Games) Edge MAXIMUM The Video Game Magazine Ultimate Future Game Magazine Game X Gamemasters Arcade Atari User( Not great thought!) Zzap 64 Commodore Force Amiga CU Amiga Format...

www.amibay.com

 

[ThatGuy]

Why not add them to other things you are selling as a free gift? I.e put a couple of mags in with each sale. Had something similar happen to me once. Bought something off the other bay. Also got a free new music CD. When I asked the seller why he sent me the CD as well. Got the answer of it’s a free gift.

Mags weigh a lot. They can't really be sent for free because they up the delivery cost a lot.

 

[Amiga Forever]

Mags weigh a lot. They can't really best sent for free because they up the delivery cost a lot.

That is right and it does added up if they willing to pay postages.

 

[darefail]

Magazine A (photo) issues 1,2,3,4... (without photo)

Magazine B (photo) issues 1,2,5,8... (without photo)

Price "x" for each or "x-y" for the lot "A"

As you have separated the general magazines and the Amiga ones it takes 10 minutes to write them down to a piece of paper and 10 minutes to make a thread.

A couple of photos for all the disks together. Maybe someone is interested for a single piece to complete his collection.
Then set a price of the rest to sell them all together.

If you need any help, everyone's here is willing to help you.
I hope you have the will..