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I’ve been working on a new site called God Speaks Daily. The site has short essays based on lessons I’ve learned in my life. You can check the new site out with the link above.

Terry

I’m working on a book listing items commonly found in homes that will bring at least $25 on eBay.

Things like:

• Basketball shoes - 10-20 years old in great shape can bring hundreds depending on the brand and athlete tie in.
• Old advertising matchbooks - most of these are worthless, I’ll explain in the book which ones bring the most money.
• Employee pins. Like the matchbooks, most of these have no value. I’ve sold some for $50-250, and seen a few sell for $1200 and more.
• Kitchen appliances. I once sold a wood tray that went with a 1930’s toaster for $150.
• Collectible cards and stickers. My first eBay sales were Wacky Packages stickers I had collected in grade school. I didn’t have a camera, but had a scanner. The shoebox full brought in more than enough to buy a camera. (Digital cameras were expensive back then!)
• Cereal premiums. I sold a set of Dick Tracey rings years ago for $145. They were from Post cereal.
• Got suggestions?

What have you sold that brought an odd amount? Something that surprised you? If you post a comment below with something you were pleasantly surprised with the selling price, I’ll give you a copy of the book when I get it finished. By posting you’re giving me permission to use your name and words in the book.

Terry

PS If you post, please be as specific as posible. If you’re story involves dishes tell us the maker, the pattern, and the price.

I was down in Tempe last month and saw the train cross Mill Avenue for the first time.

This is the Valley Metro Light Rail commuter train that goes from nowhere in the east - actually East Valley Institute of Technology, to Nowhere in the west - where Christown used to be. Between those two points the train disrupts a lot of traffic.

I go to Tempe frequently, and the new Tempe train station is right where I used to park. Recently the builders brought the train through slowly. They ran it from one end to the other and checked clearances and other details.

The train sat in the Tempe Light Rail station for about an hour as workers crawled all over it. Here’s a picture of the train in the Tempe Station:

After a long while the police closed off Mill Avenue and the train darted across.

You can see the Hayden Flour Mill in the background.

They took the train back and forth accross mill avenue a few times. Here’s a shot of it coming back across from the east.

There are some BIG bumpers on the train. I guess they’ll need them for all the cars they’ll be hitting until drivers learn to watch for the train.

I heard the train will be back in Tempe for the July 4th weekend. I also heard it won’t be.

I heard the Train would be running regularly by December 2008, and also heard it will be 6 months late due to needed repairs of poorly constructed track.

Mike Derosa is a spammer who buys resale rights to garbage products and the promotes them with spam emails.

Mike Derosa has an interesting piece of software running on his site. If you click on on of his spam offers, but don’t buy, his system sends you a message asking if you had problems completing your order.

Interesting.

If you click on the remove link in one of Mike Derosa’s spam emails, you get twice as much spam because you’ve proven your address is real.

So don’t click on any of his links.

If you use Outlook Express, the first time you see an email from Mike Derosa, click on the message title so the message is shown in the preview pane. Then click on MESSAGE on the file bar and then select BLOCK SENDER.

Outlook Express will then ask you if you want to delete every message Mike Derosa has sent you. Click yes and then go back to whatever you are doing.

Once you do this, every email Mike Derosa sends you will automatically be deleted by Outlook Express. Meaning you’ll never have to see another email from Mike again.

Terry

Got eBay questions? Post them in the comment field below and I’ll answer them in a future email.

Thanks,

Terry

Here’s a picture of Dog. He’s half black lab and half chow. He’s a gentle dog.

The tiles are 18 inches square so you can get an idea of the size of Dog. His name is Little Dog, but I just call him Dog. You can tell by his name there used to be a larger dog. This one is just mid-sized.

Anyway, Dog and I were sitting on the back patio and we heard a noise. There are stairs to the deck on the patio, and under the stairs is a closet. It sounded like something was in the closet. I got a golf club from the garage and looked in the closet.
While I was looking in the closet Dog was standing behind me. He’s very protective.

I saw a bunch of small animal pellets so I figured a packrat had moved into the closet. I set up a trap, and two days later I caught him.

Here’s a picture of the packrat:

The next night, Dog and I were sitting on the patio and Dog whined then went inside. In order to go inside, he went around the yard and used his doggie door.
That’s unusual. Maybe another packrat?

Nope. Not a packrat. It was a spider.

Here’s a picture of the spider:

That’s a penny so you can get an idea of how big the spider was. I like spiders, just not on the patio or in the house, so I let him go in the front yard. After I moved the spider to the front yard, I went looking for Dog.

I found him in the bedroom.

He was hiding under the bed.

Also in the backyard are a dozen turtles. They are box turtles. They are in a 20 by 50 foot fenced area so Dog doesn’t play with them.

The turtles eat ground beef and Dog always likes to look in at them to see what they are doing. I think Dog’s jealous because he doesn’t get ground beef.

Here’s a picture of a turtle: