Fuddland

In order to both reduce the amount of packing I’ll need to do when I move house, and to raise some extra pocket money [my grant ran out in March and there’s no teaching over the summer], I’ve offered-up quite a number of old videos, CDs and DVDs for sale on Amazon Marketplace, ones I’ve rarely — or in some cases have never — watched. I was quite surprised to find that whilst the CDs and DVDs are shifting pretty rapidly, no one wants any of the videos, despite them being only a quid or so each. I suppose the general decline in VCR and video cassette sales means that only rare [i.e. unavailable on DVD] items would be sought after.

Also, people are really bad at leaving feedback ratings; of the twenty-two people who have purchased one of my items, only three have bothered to give me a Seller Rating. Happily, I received top marks from all three, but it’d be nice if every one of the twenty-two took a few minutes to show I’m a reliable Seller — I bet if they were unhappy with the products they’d be straight online to give me a negative rating.