The trees that books built

[j4]

You want to sell your old books. You probably want to buy more books too. You want to make MONEY. And you want to help the environment, natch (or at least you'll say so if it helps you pull that cute hippy chick with the blue hair).

And, being a 21st Century Schizoid Geek, you want to do all this online, NOW.

Fortunately, Green Metropolis already exists, so we don't have to invent it.

Comments

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Cute hippy chick with blue hair? where? where? and does she do poi?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Question is, does it work on cute goth chicks with partially blue hair ?

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

If I were actually being serious, I'd say that with the state of my "love" life at the moment, then it doesn't really make a difference, if it works at all it'd be worth a try. However, I'm never serious, so I'd say "as long as the hair is also partially shocking pink", and, well, not sure about the goth, at least the hippy will have a good supplier for THC derived products.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Well, to be serious, I'm a happily connected sort of person, but.. well, the ghost of my seventeen-year-old self is doing a distractingly persistent wistful thing right now about maiko_star, who's even local.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Tchah. It was rhetoric; she's not real.

(So I guess in your imagination she can be right beside you, and an expert in tantric poi sex, if you like...)

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Damn. My poor imagination has taken a real hit from your cruel revelation. :-) I don't know if my imagination can cope on its own, now that I know she's not real.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Hey, I could dye mky hair, and simper a bit?
I'm anybody's for a pint of mild and a bag of chips.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Duly noted, and squirreled away should it ever prove useful to know.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

They have to be good chips, mind, with mayonaisse.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

mm. How do you feel about poutine ?

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Like cheese'n'chips? Like chips'n'gravy?
POUTINE!

I think it's great.
Well, it didn't make me ill...

[j4.livejournal.com]

He's not kidding, either. (You don't even need the chips, strictly speaking, but don't tell him I said that. :-)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

From a buyer's POV, "L3.75" and "unbelievably low price" do not belong in the same sentence.

From a seller's POV, hmm, maybe I should put up some of the CUSFS spares...

[j4.livejournal.com]

£3.75 for newish pbs seems pretty reasonable to me! I wouldn't go as far as unbelievably low, thobut.

The drawback appears to be that if they don't sell they end up in limbo -- I can't see anything about expiry/withdrawal/etc.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

21st Century Schizoid Geek

*grin* Another King Crimson fan, eh?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Not sure I'd say "fan", since I only own two KC albums & don't feel I need any more. But I do like the two I own. (Guess.)

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, obviously In The Court Of The Crimson King, and given that you might have bought the paired albums, I'll hazard a guess at Larks' Tongues in Aspic.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

All the KC albums you really need:

1) In The Court Of The Crimson King
2) USA

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

No. You also need "Starless and Bible Black", "Red", and "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" in that order. Then the Adrian Belew/Tony Levin ones. Don't bother with "In The Wake of Poseidon" or "Lizard" because in the case of the first, it features Gordon Haskell, and in the case of the second, it blows chunks.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe SaBB, but ItCotCK and USA are, to me, the two "must haves", the rest fall into the "essential" category.

Er, yes, I do have problems with buying far too CDs and LPs; can you tell?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I nearly wrote "ItCotCK", but it looked too much like it had COCK in it.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

I suppose it does have COCK in it, bearing in mind what kind of music Greg Lake went on to produce during the latter days of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

"must haves", the rest fall into the "essential"

Where's my dictionary...

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I think you missed a point, somewhere back there...

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, "Starless and Bible Black" is cool. Not so fussed about the Belew solo stuff, but fortunately sion_a owns every sneeze the chap ever recorded AFAICT, so if I'm ever seized with the urge to listen to it I know where it is.

Oh, wait, I do have another of their albums - 3 of a Perfect Pair. But only because it was 50p in a charity shop. :)

[nja.livejournal.com]

All the KC albums you really need:

Which one has Shake Your Booty on it?

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

In a very real sense, they all do.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Got it in one! (Well, in two-in-one. Precisely.)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

The stage version of The Martian Chronicles that was on during this year's Montreal Fringe Festival used this song breaking through on a wave of interference to represent Earth's influence disrupting the thereminny stuff played by the Martians. I thought it really worked.

[ music icon or dramatic arts icon ? Music icon or dramatic arts icon ? sod it, the music one gets a lot less use. ]

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

They don't have anything by Vic Smeed!
OR Richard Brautigan

[j4.livejournal.com]

They don't have the moon on a stick, either. (I checked.) Bastards.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Do they have it on a string?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Do they have it in a box?
Do they have it with a fox?

(Hurr hurr.)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Have you done it with a fox (http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.purity.html)?

[k425.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for that!

[imc.livejournal.com]

Good luck to them if the system works…

I think the potential problem with this is that unless you're a very environmentally conscious hippy chick with blue hair then you're not likely to want to sell a book for three quid on this service when you could have got six quid for it on ebay/ABE/amazon/whatever, so the quality of the books on offer is likely to be limited. And a similar argument from the other side applies for the potential buyers.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Mmm - it looks a lot less hassle to me than EBay from a seller's perspective, with the potential rider that you can time your auctions as a seller on EBay whereas you might have to jump up and flog your book at any point with Green Metropolis. So people going on holiday might have to faff around with delisting/suspending/whatevering their books before going on holiday and relisting (etc.) them all upon return.

75p is a very low level of margin considering the service. I approve.

[j4.livejournal.com]

On the other hand the sort of things that people are selling on there are the sort of things you'd be very unlikely to get 6 quid for on eBay ... and you might well end up only getting 99p for them if you're unlucky. Or you might get four or five quid on Amazon, but Amazon take a fierce cut.

I think the main problem is more that not enough people know about this service. A fact which I am doing my bit to rectify, & to that end I might well mention it in the other place as well.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

But I already have a cute chick with blue hair.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

she's not a hippy, though.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Bonus!