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As part of trying to distribute items from Doug Frost's collection to people who would like to have the items, I have sorted a box of rocket magazines which (by weight) are mostly 2011+ Sport Rocketry magazines, but there are a handful from the 80's, 70's and a couple from the late 60's.
I tried posting a bit back on YORF regarding old motors, but the thread kept getting derailed, so I figured I'd post my question here first this time.
I don't want to be involved in any financial transactions first and foremost. I am trying to help Doug's widow get things that Doug cared about to the hands of people who will use and enjoy what he kept for all these years.
My first thought is that I can post a list of the magazines by year and month and an interested individual could contact via PM to say they wanted line number XX. I could check weight/size and let them know and then they could send a shipping label to me and I would ship at the end of the week.
Does that seem reasonable? Again, this is a question, not a plan and there are only a handful of magazines from the 80's and before, so there's no goldmine for anyone. Having said that, there are a lot of 2011+ magazines and for newer members who weren't members of the NAR until recently, they would likely be worth shipping cost, I assume.
Please, don't PM me with 'I want them all' or tell me why I'm doing things wrong. I am just trying to pass items along which Doug's wife wanted passed along to the community. If you have a suggestion that makes more sense than what I said above, please post it for others to see. Thankfully, shipping printed magazines isn't difficult at all, but if the topic could be kept on track with any and all ideas about successfully relocating these magazines to people who would like to have them, I would love to read them and act accordingly. If people keep off-tracking, I'll be pretty darn bummed. Again, this really negative reaction isn't based on what happened here recently, but from somewhere else and I'm hoping to 'nip it in the bud' as Barney Fife would have preferred. (If I'm being disrespectful by asking that, please post arguments publicly instead of via PM, though. . . might as well make it fun for others. . . ).
Once a good idea on how to distribute the magazines is arrived at, I'll post the detailed list. Not a scam, not asking for money - just looking on how to move the items from my garage to your house. . .
(Roughly 26 magazines from the 80's and before, 24 random issues from 2012-2021, 5 almost complete sets (5 vs 6 issues) from 2011-2019 and 3 complete sets from 2012-2015. Nothing groundbreaking, but not right to shred, IMO)
Sandy.
I tried posting a bit back on YORF regarding old motors, but the thread kept getting derailed, so I figured I'd post my question here first this time.
I don't want to be involved in any financial transactions first and foremost. I am trying to help Doug's widow get things that Doug cared about to the hands of people who will use and enjoy what he kept for all these years.
My first thought is that I can post a list of the magazines by year and month and an interested individual could contact via PM to say they wanted line number XX. I could check weight/size and let them know and then they could send a shipping label to me and I would ship at the end of the week.
Does that seem reasonable? Again, this is a question, not a plan and there are only a handful of magazines from the 80's and before, so there's no goldmine for anyone. Having said that, there are a lot of 2011+ magazines and for newer members who weren't members of the NAR until recently, they would likely be worth shipping cost, I assume.
Please, don't PM me with 'I want them all' or tell me why I'm doing things wrong. I am just trying to pass items along which Doug's wife wanted passed along to the community. If you have a suggestion that makes more sense than what I said above, please post it for others to see. Thankfully, shipping printed magazines isn't difficult at all, but if the topic could be kept on track with any and all ideas about successfully relocating these magazines to people who would like to have them, I would love to read them and act accordingly. If people keep off-tracking, I'll be pretty darn bummed. Again, this really negative reaction isn't based on what happened here recently, but from somewhere else and I'm hoping to 'nip it in the bud' as Barney Fife would have preferred. (If I'm being disrespectful by asking that, please post arguments publicly instead of via PM, though. . . might as well make it fun for others. . . ).
Once a good idea on how to distribute the magazines is arrived at, I'll post the detailed list. Not a scam, not asking for money - just looking on how to move the items from my garage to your house. . .
(Roughly 26 magazines from the 80's and before, 24 random issues from 2012-2021, 5 almost complete sets (5 vs 6 issues) from 2011-2019 and 3 complete sets from 2012-2015. Nothing groundbreaking, but not right to shred, IMO)
Sandy.
