Weird

[ffutures]

Today's charity shop haul was the Alias season 2 DVDs for £12, Repo Man for £3, and a really nice 1930s biology textbook (with hundreds of colour illustrations) for £2; can't use it for Forgotten Futures, it's too recent, but it's a nice one for my collection.

The Alias thing is weird; over the last couple of months, in three widely separated charity shops, I've picked up seasons 4, 3, and 2, all at £10 or £12, less than third the new price in the UK. The odd part is that I've not so far been a particular fan of the show, but I get the feeling that fate is trying to tell me something here, and I may watch them rather than selling them on eBay. If I start posting Alias fanfic you'll know I've been infected...

I forgot to mention my end-of-term present for myself, also a charity shop item; an 1890s book on microscopy, with dozens of illustrations, which has been in the Oxfam shop near work at £10 for a couple of months. It really is pretty, and I'm very tempted to scan it for the FF CD-ROM, but it'd be a lot of work and I suspect that there wouldn't be many interested readers. Besides, I have some books to scan for FF X, also a load of period advertising which I suspect will be a lot more interesting to most punters.

In other news I've just had a pamphlet giving details of the new UK postal pricing - it looks like sending the Forgotten Futures stuff will stay at about the same price, except that the charity CD will be a bit more expensive within the UK since the minimum cost for sending a padded envelope has risen, irrespective of weight, and it could be sent at minimum rates under the old rules. For the moment I don't plan to change my pricing.

Comments

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

I can loan you Alias Season 1 DVDs if you don't already have access to a copy. Let me know before midday Thursday and I'll bring them to the Tun.
Seasons 1 - 4 are great, I think it hit it's peak in season 4, but there's no real need to pick up Season 5 other than completeness. Despite a few of reasonable episodes, it is mostly a pale shadow.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'd really rather not borrow - I've lost disks a couple of times to other people, and while I'd like to think I'm better organized I'd hate to be proved wrong. I'm going to give it a while, see if by any chance they turn up in a charity shop or something...

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

You have the best charity shops in the world. None of mine ever have DVDs.

And I wondered why the post office were changing their pricing structure, catching people using padded envelopes a lot must be one of those reasons. Bah.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

One of the advantages of living in London, I suppose.

If I've worked out the thickness thing correctly a CD in a sleeve in a card-backed envelope might be OK. I'd sooner stick with what I know works, which is padded envelopes. It's not going to be a huge expense until I send out FF X.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in the microscopy book, but as a science teacher not a gamer.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The trouble is it's 400+ pages of fairly tchnical writing, OCR would be very tricky.