The buyer pays, select USPS as the Shipping method, and then uses Pirateship to actually purchase the label from USPS or UPS. This provides a small upside on shipping, which helps cover the high packing costs. Shipping typewriters is just inherently expensive, and if you pay retail, you are going to take a bath every time. Also, you need to buy supplies in bulk from a commercial supplier. Had to learn this the hard way after eBay charged someone $40 for shipping, and when I got to FedEx it was 90+the like 25 I spent on retail shipping supplies. Now have shipping supplies down to about $12 a machine and never have a negative on shipping costs.
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- Sep 2025
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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- Oct 2023
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www.ebay.com www.ebay.com
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/385498338372
30 drawer card catalog in 2 parts with two writing drawers in the middle and a matching table stand. In mediocre shape and has two replaced drawers (metal and/or plastic, not wood). Drawers are maed in all wood
Listed at $1,5000 for over 3 months. $50 per drawer.
2023-10-12: Still listed for sale. Local pick up only from Brentwood, CA
cost per drawer: $50
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- Mar 2023
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c.1913 Wilson Memindex Desk Organzier Catalog Price List Booklet Rolodex Prequel
In a 1913 catalog for the Wilson Memindex, the company suggested putting to do items and one's schedule on one side of the card and potentially keeping one's accounts or a diary on the reverse side.
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1930s Wilson Memindex Junior Index Card Box Pre Rolodex Ad Price List Brochure
Note that the seller mistakenly lists it as a pre-rolodex!
Good photos including a list of supplies and prices:
A description of roughly how the Memindex system works:
Page archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230310002530/https://www.ebay.com/itm/165910053313
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Vintage Memindex Wilson Wood Box 1937-38 Diary Planner Date Keeper Ephemera
Includes particularly good image of the individual day cards:
Notice that the tabs are done as 1/6th as most of these systems were manufactured/sold with out including Sunday.
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Memindex Wilson Wood Box 1945-47 Diary file Planner Vintage Secretary
Great photos including one of some of the individual cards.
(Photo archived into note taking folder as well.)
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- Feb 2023
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www.bricklink.com www.bricklink.com
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eBay got jealous when Dan’s site began to grow in leaps and bounds and made him change his name to Bricklink two years later.
Can they really do that? The name seems different enough?
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplaceIllustration: Christophe Gowans/Guardian Design
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- Apr 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Coronavirus vaccination cards a target of scams—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/18/scams-coronavirus-vaccination-cards/
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www.bleepingcomputer.com www.bleepingcomputer.com