How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin?

[Seven of Five]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

I had the whole bloody collection. 304 issues. I loved them when I was younger, but was 18 when they finished and was already a bit weary of all the waffle. I liked the character bios, ship diagrams and episode guides the most.

They were taking up space and I was going to take them for recycling, but I shoved them on eBay. Someone gave me a fiver and picked them up themselves! :thumbsup:

 

[Richard1701]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

The Squire of Gothos said:
Ebay is your friend?

I'm afraid eBay is not my friend. I check to see what's on there from time to time and the fact files do not do well at all. They do not sell. They are a bloody curse! A curse I tell you! It's a good job I got them given years ago and didn't waste my money buying them!

 

[I am not Spock]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

I can't believe how many issues of that stupid bloody thing I bought before I realised how much the full set would cost. Oh well, I was an adolescent Star Trek obsessive at the time (14 years old). The Star Trek Encyclopedia is a much better reference book (although it hasn't been updated in a long time. There probably won't be another one, unless Star Trek XI is a hit)

I still have the Fact Files, sitting there unused, clogging up space in my room. These partwork folder publications, what a waste of time and money.

 

[nx1701g]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

The Squire of Gothos said:
Ebay is your friend?

Yep, I sold my collection of Star Trek: The Magazine on eBay a few months ago for $800

 

[CaptainSerek]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

I completed my collection of Star Trek Magazines a couple of years ago. I still take them out and enjoy them.

 

[Richard1701]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

nx1701g said:

The Squire of Gothos said:
Ebay is your friend?

Yep, I sold my collection of Star Trek: The Magazine on eBay a few months ago for $800

Are these a different thing to the Fact Files? Because from what I've seen on eBay the Fact Files don't go so well!

 

[CDP]

you could burn them, recycle them, send them to downing street for the hell of it. Leave them on a bus/train/coach etc. Give them to a charity shop. take the back to the newsagent and try and blag a refund etc etc etc....

 

[Epsilon IX]

Wallpaper? An emergency alternative if you've gone to the toilet, done your business and then realised that you're out of toilet paper? Take it to a charity shop (they might want to know if it's got a 'special mark' )?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

Richard1701 said:
Are these a different thing to the Fact Files? Because from what I've seen on eBay the Fact Files don't go so well!

The US "ST: The Magazine" was permitted to sub-license some of the UK-created "Fact Files" schematics and labelled artwork within its pages, but the "Fact Files" was much, much more than you saw in "The Magazine". The "Files" were large-format, random loose-leaf pages, collected into weekly volumes and bound like a writing tablet, that could be separated and sorted into categories in ring binders with divider pages.

They only had one price rise in all the years they were printed, IIRC. For a weekly Star Trek trivia fix (episode and movie guides, encyclopedic entries, ship schematics, character bios, alien races, tech, timelines, diagrams, rare stills, etc) they were outstanding value. People who simply add up the total of all 300+ volumes and complain bitterly are forgetting they had many years of weekly reading pleasure.

Several of the writers were ST novelists and ST article contributors to other ST licensed tie-ins.

 

[Phillip Culley]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

Therin of Andor said:
They only had one price rise in all the years they were printed, IIRC.

Not in the UK - they were rare in that the first issue cost £1.99, and the price remained the same until the last one (compared to most similar magazines that have a cheap issue 1, and cost three times as much for the rest of them )

 

[Therin of Andor]

Re: How can I get rid of my Fact Files without using the bin

^Our Aussie price rise was ten percent when our national GST (general consumption tax) came in. All the binders were free, and there were even free sheets of error correction stickers when the first 200 or so issues were completed.

I actually bought about five copies of issue #1 to get extra free binders.

 

[WraithDukat]

How do I get rid of my fact files without a bin?

Fire!

 

[DimesDan]

Although this thread is well over ten years old, I recycled mine nearly that long ago.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Check with your local waste collection authority to see what types of paper and cardboard are recyclable.

 

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