Digest Edition: September 11 2020

With it being the 19th anniversary of 9/11, Mike begins the episode by telling the story of a close friend’s close call. Kevin asked Mike to do his version of a masterclass on the fine art of selling second hand anime and manga merchandise (6:51). And Mike, needing some selling tips, readily agrees. So here’s a quick rundown of the points in his lesson 12:50 - Patience 13:55 - Do an annual or semi-annual “spark joy” inventory 15:25 - Using cloud services like google drive to both catalog and advertise 17:20 - Take all your merchandise photos at once 20:35 - Consider Reddit as well as eBay as a place to sell 24:05 - Is a rerelease of the title forthcoming? Use that to maximize value 27:50 - Other online sites 31:35 - PayPal and currency conversions 36:58 - It’s overwhelming starting off, but just do it and learn along the way 42:35 - On selling mulitple volumes of the same title 47:55 - Shipping, both conventional and alternative methods 55:12 - Conclusion Eventually towards the end of the class, we go off on a tangent on how productively we have spent the pandemic, with Mike saying he’s completely wasted it (50:19) Then we look back on Angela’s return and look ahead to future episodes on things like this year’s virtual edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (1:00:49), and memories of Ready Player One (1:10:10) Also points for any listener who can make out Kevin’s niece in the background Mike Nicolas, Kevin Ng, and Mohamed Sharmarke Visit our website for more information and links: https://animeroundtable.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/anime-roundtable-v2-0-digest-6-september-11-2020/ Website: animeroundtable.com Twitter and IG: @animeroundtable Email: [email protected]