jenndiggy1
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posted on May 24, 2001 02:35:34 PM new
I was wondering if any old Internet sign up disks were worth anything. I bought a stack of software (tied up so you couldn't look through it) at a garage sale this afternoon. Most of it was the installation disks to things like video equiptment, printers, etc. But there was an AOL 2.5 disk sealed (going to hang on to it for a few years), but some GNN disks and netcomplete. Does non-aol vintage internet have any market? I only spent $3 and the AOL disk was worth it to me, but I don't want to throw any of this away if I can sell it. (Ah, the mark of a true ebay seller!)
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kudzurose
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posted on May 24, 2001 02:43:54 PM new
Probably anything that we have thrown away by the kazillions will some day be valuable - just because most of us threw them away.
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denisv
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posted on May 24, 2001 02:44:11 PM new
Wow! You are certainly "future oriented". I never thought of saving freebie CD-ROMS for future profit. As for present-day sales potential, you might as well test the market - list a few and see if anyone bites. I have a 10" stack of promotional and out-of-date CD-ROMs that I use for drink coasters. My girlfriend uses her old CD-ROMs to decorate her Christmas tree.
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baby167297
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posted on May 24, 2001 02:55:51 PM new
hey I used all mine as coasters too....they are so cool looking too
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on May 24, 2001 03:46:22 PM new
I had 100 3.5 Diskettes that someone collected from Waldenbooks after they ripped up the magazines after the Display date; made convienent Storage and Transit Disks.
Course, with these damn CD's that are basiclly CD-R's that have been written upon.
If their were CD-RW's, then maybe i'll save a couple.
:\\\\\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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carolann56
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posted on May 24, 2001 04:35:47 PM new
Want a cool idea for those old CD's? My brother and I have a slew of them. My "brilliant" idea was to make a mobile with them. Then, I saw his idea. He took and overlaped them in a sort of "tossed look" in a fairly large silver frame under glass. It's hanging in his computer room, and looks totally modern. I finally found a frame in one of my MANY boxes from sales that will do the same for mine *S*
*groan* where is spell check when you need it? 
[ edited by carolann56 on May 24, 2001 04:36 PM ]
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ashlandtrader
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posted on May 24, 2001 04:45:59 PM new
The mobile idea is great! Kids/babies love how shiny they are.
We used to have A "wall of discs" in our old office. Anything to keep from working!:0)
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RainyBear
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posted on May 24, 2001 05:17:51 PM new
I know someone who collected old CDs and glued them all over his car -- and I do mean *all* over his car. It was one bright, shiny, rolling machine.
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Malady
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posted on May 24, 2001 05:44:53 PM new
I use to hang mine in my apricot tree; to keep the birds away.
I heard once that some of the aol cd's have promo games that are great sellers.
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heike55
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posted on May 24, 2001 05:51:40 PM new
I made a wall clock out of old computer boards with a disc as the clock face. Looks very cool and makes great gifts.
Will have to try the coaster idea, 'am in need of some. Thanks for the tip!!
heikejohn everywhere else!
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jake
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posted on May 24, 2001 06:37:13 PM new
Remember the really old 5 1/4" floppies? I have a couple of new still sealed boxes of them that I'm holding on to.
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ascorti
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posted on May 24, 2001 07:29:49 PM new
To answer your question, there _is_ some value to these.
Old AOL discs (the older/earlier versions the better) are collected by a number of people, although heavens knows why. I don't know if the collectors, who have I read about in several newspaper articles in the past few years, frequent eBay. You might check closed auctions for them.
Ascorti
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mballai
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posted on May 24, 2001 08:41:17 PM new
Glue a stack of AOL CDs together and use them for practice with your favorite shotgun
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Inkblotz
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posted on May 24, 2001 10:55:01 PM new
They make great earrings. Just stick your ears through the hole in the middle. Great weapons too. They can actually be sharpened along the edges and turned into one heck of a finger slicing frisbee to the unsuspecting. I've found on the old aol discs, that if you play them backwards on an old phonograph player you can faintly make out the message "we want time warner, we want time warner, we want time warner". If you're artistically inclined, try painting something on them in the form of glasspainting, masking out the areas that are not going to be reflective. Also, I've heard that by grinding them with a bench grinder, you can use the shavings as a seasoning on blackened fish! You could also try to come up with a secondary market item to sell on ebay. Something like a "cdrom gun". You remember those little plastic guns that shot the little plastic discs? Just make a bigger one! The cdrommygun! Eventually, people will have to buy ammunition, and that's where your old cds will up in value.
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on May 24, 2001 11:57:25 PM new
You could also try to come up with a secondary market item to sell on ebay. Something like a "cdrom gun". You remember those little plastic guns that shot the little plastic discs? Just make a bigger one! The cdrommygun! Eventually, people will have to buy ammunition, and that's where your old cds will up in value.
Last I hear, any FIRING Instrument was banned on eBay. Who's to say some idiot at Safeharbor decides to think your selling a crossbow?
:\\\\\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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soldat2
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posted on May 25, 2001 04:43:10 AM new
>I was wondering if any old Internet sign up disks were worth anything. I bought a stack of software<
I'm pretty sure listing any of the 'freebie' promo discs or any of the others would quite possibly get you a Vero notice compliments of the secret ebay police.........if they are going out after 'possible' copyright/trademark infringments they certainly will notice those dics & other software.
As for value, I also would pay for a new AOL 2.5 disc as no version has performed as well since then! 6.0 is out, but we are still using 5.0 as it performs better for us. (in fact, I know that we have a 3.0 disc here, somewhere............
Is it not amazing how ebay did away with all guns but they still are trying to shoot themselves in the foot anyhow????
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dixiebee
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posted on May 25, 2001 05:19:58 AM new
I subscribed to a now-defunct internet-related magazine. Each month your magazine came with a disk that was loaded with stuff - from ISP sign up, to promo copies of games (think Lara Croft) to trailers for movie releases (think the orignal Austin Powers) and more.
Last year, I sold several of them for $10-$15, what I felt was fairly good money. I had no VeRO problem then, but you never know.
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jenndiggy1
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posted on May 25, 2001 12:56:18 PM new
I saw an AOL 1.0 disk sell for $50+ dollars. (I was hoping there was one in this lot, but 2.0 was the best I could find.) But I was wondering about the other ISP disks.
I'm really bummed that most of my software is to things like printers and stuff. REALLY REALLY dumb on the part of the garage sale holders -- they had the printers, video players, and other stuff at their sale, but put all the software in one bundle which I bought.
I'm really bummed because I'd like to at least get my money back out of this. Oh well, at least I have the 2.0 disk.
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gboy
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posted on May 25, 2001 01:54:08 PM new
Some people collect AOL discs with interesting designs on them. A few months ago I sold an AOL 3.0 disc for $10!
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TheRedCircle
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posted on May 25, 2001 02:33:04 PM new
I'd save them, but I have too much fun playing Ninja AOL Disk Assassin!
Shooop! Splut! Ouch!
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TRC
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topics42
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posted on May 26, 2001 05:44:43 AM new
I saw on a TV decorator program where they cut old disks in 1/2 and used them to glue around a picture frame. Looked quite hi-tech...good for people into that look.
How about a new thread..What can you do with old disks? It certainly might save some space in the land fills!
How about cutting the disks in 1/2 gluing them all around a mirror?
I wonder if you put 1 on an oven safe dish in the oven if it would bend with the heat. Has any one tried it??
Maybe if a few disks were put overlaping on a dish in the oven & heated just enough to make them hold together and bendable in to a shape--that leeds to all sorts of ideas. I'd like to hear what other have done. BTW anyone know what type of glue would work to glue these together and make the bond waterproof?
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