Sunday brings a gift card
Aug. 10th, 2025 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutToday in decluttering: someone came to pick up two ornaments that are from Wizarding World UO, maybe around 2018 or thereabouts. They are little hangars with dresses on them, one for Hermione’s Yule Ball dress and one for Ginny’s. I wasn’t ever a True Fan, and as much as I do love a woman who makes an enormous amount of money giving people what they want, JKR made the entire IP much less fun for me. But these were still a little tough to give away, because they are super cool even without the IP connection, so cool I’d had them hanging on a nail on the wall in front of my computer in my office for years, even after JKR took all the fun out of it for me.
Anyway. I listed them. Someone picked them up today. And the person who picked them up drove down from Nashua to do so, and handed me a little envelope that turned out to contain a thank you note and what appears to be a $10 Dunkin Donuts card. (I only list free local pickup, because I don’t feel like getting into any kind of tax consequences of FB fees). I was a little surprised, because I’d made a small effort to figure out what these things might be worth and hadn’t found many listed, and those were all out of stock and not super recently. None had been crazy priced (over a hundred = crazy pricing for something along these lines), but they were all consistently over $30.
Anyway. I’ve learned so much through this whole process about how people think about what things are worth, and what people do to get things. This particular exchange was enjoyable, and a satisfying end to a minor tale of material culture in my life, showing me clearly that when you cannot find something for sale readily, and all recent sales were for not particularly astronomical prices, that doesn’t necessarily mean the price accurately reflects the value. The scarcity is a better indicator.
(Posted earlier on FB, but not all my readers are also on FB, so here ya go.)
Anyway. I listed them. Someone picked them up today. And the person who picked them up drove down from Nashua to do so, and handed me a little envelope that turned out to contain a thank you note and what appears to be a $10 Dunkin Donuts card. (I only list free local pickup, because I don’t feel like getting into any kind of tax consequences of FB fees). I was a little surprised, because I’d made a small effort to figure out what these things might be worth and hadn’t found many listed, and those were all out of stock and not super recently. None had been crazy priced (over a hundred = crazy pricing for something along these lines), but they were all consistently over $30.
Anyway. I’ve learned so much through this whole process about how people think about what things are worth, and what people do to get things. This particular exchange was enjoyable, and a satisfying end to a minor tale of material culture in my life, showing me clearly that when you cannot find something for sale readily, and all recent sales were for not particularly astronomical prices, that doesn’t necessarily mean the price accurately reflects the value. The scarcity is a better indicator.
(Posted earlier on FB, but not all my readers are also on FB, so here ya go.)