Magazine clearout

[Ken Sington]

I have way too many Porsche and F1 related magazines and could do with freeing up some shelf space.

Short of tipping them into the nearest skip, is there anyway of getting rid of them as a job lot for a few squid?

Not particularly interested in sticking them up individually on ebay or the like, so would they go in bulk on there?

[Einion Yrth]

Give them to charity.

[GregorFuk]

I recently stocked the shelves of our local maternity / sonography waiting room with a load of old EVO and Octane mags.

[droopsnoot]

Surprisingly difficult to get rid of magazines, even for free. I walked past a chap sitting by a Porsche at Oulton Park yesterday with a box of magazines for free, and it didn't look as if he was having much success shifting them. Porsche and classic car related magazines, at a massive Porsche gathering, within a historic race meeting with a massive classic car club display area.

I guess you could try bundling them into years and on eBay, but then you've got postage to contend with, a years-worth of a reasonable glossy car mag will weigh quite a bit.

[anonymous-user]

They have no value, so I regularly donate mine to the waiting room at the local psych hospital where the Mrs works.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

droopsnoot said:

Surprisingly difficult to get rid of magazines, even for free. I walked past a chap sitting by a Porsche at Oulton Park yesterday with a box of magazines for free, and it didn't look as if he was having much success shifting them. Porsche and classic car related magazines, at a massive Porsche gathering, within a historic race meeting with a massive classic car club display area.

I guess you could try bundling them into years and on eBay, but then you've got postage to contend with, a years-worth of a reasonable glossy car mag will weigh quite a bit.

Similar for me IME. Tried to once take some, recent-ish, good condition CAR and Evo's to the local doctors, to be told they didn't accept mags older than three months old. This is a doctors with NO magazines for males!

Some time before I ebay'd over 100 copies of CAR, went for £15. The prat of a buyer listed negative as there were three boxes instead of the two in the photo, and because some weren't perfect (EG missing covers) EVEN though in the listing I described numbers in mint, average, or defects such as missing covers!!

[Perseverant]

I recently dumped a load of old classic car magazines. I'd contacted a dealer who basically said they had little value unless for example they were prewar "Autocar" or some such. So a few memories gone and a load off the upstairs floor, though I did keep some old "Practical Motorist" mags. and my "Meccano Magazines" for old times sake, then a friend of a friend was delighted to have, for his Sunbeam Talbot, an article on the Laycock-DeNormanville overdrive unit from on of the "PMs" that had survived the great chuck out!