*Headdesk*

[fangrrl_squees]

It's moral quandary time!

Some of these B7 fanzines I've cheerfully taken off my friend's hands are, it seems, worth a few bucks to certain folks. Not gobs and gobs, mind you, but $10 - $30 each, depending on the title.

If money wasn't tight at Casa Cthulhu, I wouldn't give a damn. I'd gladly give them away for the cost of postage.

But money is tight. And, by my reckoning, I'm sitting on about $300 worth of 'zines - possibly more - if I can find a buyer.

That's the kicker. Finding a buyer. Well, that and wrestling my conscience to the ground that's saying I should give the things away, as initially planned, because that's the kind-and-nice thing to do - even if I suspect that some recipients would immediately turn around and sell the items on ebay, once read. After all, we might be fans, but we're also only human, right? Right. This moral quandary being a case in point, for instance.

Would it be horrible of me if I sold these 'zines, rather than giving them away?

*fretfretfret*

Maybe if I offered them up at a bargain price - less than I'm seeing online? Maybe that would quiet my conscience but still satisfy the little black duck that sees small-but-significant piles of cash in fanzine form on the coffee table...

Blech. I wish I wasn't broke. The matter would be much easier to resolve, then...

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

bargain price would work

[thunderwill.livejournal.com]

I say sell them. :) maybe you can sell them on Ebay your self or theres a ebay store across the street from sun valley mall. they take pics and post them for you. ( i was going to sell some comics but there to new) i think they take 10% or some thing like that. better then just giving it away :shrug:

[renn.livejournal.com]

If you can sell them, sell them. Srsly. Mostly because a) you need the dosh and b) you're absolutely right that most people would ebay them the moment they finished reading them. I'm sure you've been kind-and-nice before; you'll certainly have the opportunity to be kind-and-nice again-- I don't see any karmic problem with selling them for money you actually need.

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

Sell 'em. And don't go selling them short, either. Ask a fair price, and let them pay more, if they will. Nothing wrong with making a bit of money, especially when you really need it.

There's no rule that fandom has to be poor. Hell, if fen didn't sell each other stuff, there wouldn't be fandom. Not as we know it, at any rate.

[rani23.livejournal.com]

Sell 'em and don't think twice about it.

[kaffy_r]

By all means, sell them, and don't worry about it at all. Doing so could help you and your Casa financially, right? Then I'd say it's perfectly ethical to sell 'em.