...Or not.
I'm selling my games in a kind of interesting way: An enormous garage sale. For seven hours on the 24th, I'm going to be one of the biggest game stores in the country. People are coming in from hundreds of miles away to give me cash for my games; it's crazy, there might be dozens of people. When I concocted this scheme I thought there might be a dozen people, locals buying a game or five, but now I have people rolling in with about a grand in cash. Mostly eurogamers; I hope some wargamers come in to whittle that stack down.
In case you're curious, the game catalog is here.
Should be a crazy day.
That (incomplete) list is actually reasonably close to a thousand, even though it doesn't add up to it. Lots of those line items, especially in the wargame section, have more than one game. But at the end of this, I'll still have more than 250, probably; I wasn't counting expansions when I came up with that number (in my mind, they're not separate games, they just make the original game "bigger"), and some of these games aren't really in salable condition. I might end up throwing some away, and donating others, and schlepping others elsewhere. I should be able to get rid of a few hundred games, anyway, which the shelves, psyche, and pocketbook will appreciate.
What I really need to do is come up with some way to deal with the crowd. If I walk out of my apartment at 11 and find two dozen people there clamoring to get in, my apartment can't handle it. Does anyone in reader-land have any thoughts? One harebrained scheme I hatched was to have the initial crowd pull a number out of a hat, and bring people in in groups of six for fifteen minutes each. The fun part: I'd give some time beforehand to let people make deals for numbers. It's either brilliant or crazy...
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