day in the life of THXII38..

[thx1138]

Wake up at 8:00am, turn computer on, make tea.

Online until 10am, surfing for bargains, looking for deals, checking my eBay accounts, awaiting for the postman.

Download £100 from Pay-Pal into my account, sold an Atari for £78 and some other stuff over the weekend....

Postman comes, a load of junk mail, no offers or vouchers worth bothering with. Make up 6 parcels of stuff for eBayers who have already paid me, Mrs.THX posts them for me.

Walk to the auction house where I used to work. Get £83 cash for some stuff they sold for me at the weekend, show them a sample plate from a dinner set I got a while ago, they agree to take it.

Carry on to the local Gamestation, sell them a load of common NES games for £10.50 - they will prolly get £5-6 each for them, I'm happy cos I made back the money we spent on rarer NES games yesterday, and they won't sell on eBay, specially this time of year. Haggle over the price of a solar powered handheld from the 70's. Won't sell it to them for £3, cos it's worth £50 to a collector. Sell them a R-Zone X.P.G for £2 (cost me 75p yesterday).

Go to the bank, put £10 from the £12.50 I got at Gamestation with the cash from the auction and pay it into the bank.

Go to the pub, the Bankers Draft, Guiness is £1.09 a pint on Mondays, (just gone up 10p!). Have a pint. Walk home, get one of two boxes of china for the auctions, lug it round. Get another box, do the same with second box, feels like my arms will drop off. Still, I free's up another two tough plastic boxes from Ikea for my games room. Check out three charity shops, nothing doing today.

Buy a beer on the way back. Eat dinner, lamb chops from the reduced counter at Safeways, cost £1, and some spuds from the in-laws garden. There's a message for me to call some one called Maclom.

Malcom has got old Spectrum & Commodore stuff. Arrange to see him this evening, drink the beer I bought on the way home, and go to sleep for a couple of hours.

Walk 2 miles to his house for the Commodore stuff. Nothing much, give him £3 for some C64 tapes and Spectrum books.

Come home, start eBaying again, and doing a few bits on FFUK. Answer a few private messages regarding ez-baords.

Bought some games for my collection from a new site retropassion.co.uk last night, browse for more, nothing exciting in.

Put together a box full of old computer tapes for BBC, Spectrum, Commodre, Amstrad etc..... guy in Cornwall will swap me for them, we have a casual arrangement, tapes for carts.....

e-mail buggered up courtesy of NTL.... can't find the geezer in Cornwalls e-mail addy, and the flipping forum he posts on is also down. Realise I made an error with one of the parcels! Phone the guy to tell him that I made a mistake, and we sort the problem out quickly.

Check my eBay lists...... one guy still messing me about, owes me £15 or some games. Getting fed up with him. Check all the trades lists on 15 message boards.

Mrs.THX makes me coffee.

Log onto FFUK to see to admin tasks. Make a note to archive Euro forums later in the week.

[den68]

very thorough account.

with all the tea, beer and coffee you had I hope you made time to take a wee and didn't just wet yourself.

[thx1138]

it was a summary - I'm sure you don't want THAT much detail! LOL

[shadytool]

yeah, that seems like a full day to me.
ALOT of trading.

[Sauza12]

I want just one day where I could do that type of stuff.  Even my Weekly hunting days have been trimmed down from 3 hours on Sunday to an hour and a half on Saturdays.  

[Izret101]

Damn your a busy man. But i have the same idea as Sauza. Only difference is that my trade/buy time is much less consistant and in shorter periods of time.