Roadsmith
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posted on February 8, 2007 12:18:16 PM new
I have come into a group of Cliffs Notes, which I know from experience are used by students in high school and college. What's your best guess about the best time to list them? I'm guessing a few weeks before finals and the end of the school year for the procrastinators. Do any of you have better ideas?
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A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 8, 2007 12:23:03 PM new
Do any of you have better ideas?
Yes. Use them for kindling and let the little slackers actually have to crack a book open for once in their pampered, overprotected lives.
fLufF
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Roadsmith
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posted on February 8, 2007 12:25:32 PM new
Of course you're right, Fluffy. They ARE little slackers.
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A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a
nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.) ~Dave Barry
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paloma91
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posted on February 8, 2007 05:23:09 PM new
My son uses cliffnotes for school but the ones he uses are online. I am sure there is a student out there who doesn't have internet access. You might want to group them by grade levels and sell them that way. You may make a couple of dollars. Who knows!
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roadsmith
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posted on February 8, 2007 05:36:07 PM new
Paloma: I've sold some of these in the past, just got a little bit for each one and a couple didn't sell. But I got 11 of them today for a total of 25 cents, so it's essentially all gravy.
To my surprise, checking and rechecking, I see that I've been calling them Cliff Notes all these years, and they're actually Cliffs Notes. I guess nobody pronounces it that way, though.
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Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine . . They start out as grapes; and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. ~Dave Barry
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pixiamom
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posted on February 8, 2007 06:28:05 PM new
I bought an online version similar to Cliffs Notes for a book my son read so I could quiz him on it without having to the read the entire book myself. The Notes were tortuous reading - I finally gave up them and read the original book.
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profe51
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posted on February 8, 2007 07:13:55 PM new
why would a student who doesn't have internet access go to ebay to buy cliffs notes? Am I missing something?
Student bookstores usually carry the cliffs notes for the majority of books read by students...nearby off campus bookstores have even more. I can't imagine these being worth the time to list.
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pandorasbox
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posted on February 8, 2007 07:59:24 PM new
Hi Roadsmith;
Below is the 30 day sales history for "Cliffs Notes" on eBay.
Alot of multiple lots...with a few current titles getting $4.95.
Cliffs Notes are commodity items, never in short supply and as you can see from the numbers, never in high demand.
Total Sales: $321 Total Listings: 661 Successful Listings: 123
Total Bids: 191 Items Sold: 125 Items Offered: 759
Sell-Through: 18.61% Sellers per Day:
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Start Price Avg Price
Average: $2.30 $2.57
Lowest: $0.01 $0.01
Highest: $10.00 $15.29
Frequent: $0.99 $0.99
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Michael
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zippy2dah
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posted on February 8, 2007 08:27:33 PM new
I'd burn 'em too.
And then I would list the ashes on eBay.
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roadsmith
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posted on February 9, 2007 09:21:46 AM new
Thanks, everybody, for your advice. I'm not going to burn this pile--yet.
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Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine . . They start out as grapes; and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. ~Dave Barry
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