So I’ve run two sets of auctions lately, as I try to clear out space.

The first was mostly old games.  We’re talking, Apple II games, other early 8-bit micro stuff, TurboGrafx, Sega CD, that sort of stuff.

I had 12 auctions that got bids, and I got 11 Paypal payments the day the auctions ended.  The last guy took, oh, 24 hours to get his payment to me.

My only gripe was that I had a Canadian bidder who complained that it was more expensive to ship to Canada, which I will let slide because he also dropped a couple hundred bucks on mid-80s videogames.

By way of contrast, I then ran a bunch of auctions for, well, toys, mostly anime-related toys but some comic-book-related toys as well.  This time, I had 16 auctions get bids.

I’ve had:

7 actual payments.

1 bidder ask if he could pay me in “Transformers” figures instead of cash.

1 bidder ask if he can pay me next Tuesday, because that’s when he gets paid.

1 bidder wants to send me a money order because he “doesn’t do Paypal”

and 6 winning bidders that I haven’t heard from at all.

Lesson learned: Toy collectors are a pain in the arse.