Random thoughts...

[Brian861]

Cute pup!

[Ben Staad]

Hope this new family member brings you many years of joy. Pip sure is cute!

OT post here -- New addition. Meet Pip. I've had him for two weeks as of tomorrow. He is a Jack Russell Terrier and Chihuahua mix. He's named after a dog we had who lived to be 17. I wanted this dog, Pip, to have part of Flip's (The 17 year old dog) name. He slept on a rug on my laundry basket for the first day or so. He's also known as Demon Spawn.

Cap

[Martin]

OT post here -- New addition. Meet Pip. I've had him for two weeks as of tomorrow. He is a Jack Russell Terrier and Chihuahua mix. He's named after a dog we had who lived to be 17. I wanted this dog, Pip, to have part of Flip's (The 17 year old dog) name. He slept on a rug on my laundry basket for the first day or so. He's also known as Demon Spawn.

Cap

Congratulations on the addition to your family. Makes me think of LT's Theory of Pets.

[c marvel]

OT post here -- New addition. Meet Pip. I've had him for two weeks as of tomorrow. He is a Jack Russell Terrier and Chihuahua mix. He's named after a dog we had who lived to be 17. I wanted this dog, Pip, to have part of Flip's (The 17 year old dog) name. He slept on a rug on my laundry basket for the first day or so. He's also known as Demon Spawn.

Cap

[RonClinton]

Okay, first, 4000 books! That's a heck of a collection! Wow!

And I agree about eBay. It's almost impossible to make any money off a book selling there. Including shipping to calculate their fees is ridiculous. Not to mention the extra stinger of a $0.50 per transaction fee they add on for some reason. I sold enough books this year to break the threshold on being reported for income tax purposes so we'll see how that turns out. I might be wrong, but wouldn't a seller only have to pay income tax on any profit they made?

I'd be interested in your Facebook selling experiences if you try it. I don't really want to go down that rabbit hole, but I do have about 50 books I'm looking to sell, so that might be an option.

Will do.

R.e. income tax: No, unfortunately the IRS counts all eBay income as taxable income *unless* you can prove the depreciation of the items. If you have a receipt that shows you paid $50 for a book and it sold for $20, then you can prove it's a depreciated item and that it's free of tax. But for those of us -- most of us, I assume -- who have no such records, the default assumption by the feds is that it's all profit and is due to be taxed.