Our plan is simple: to provide a platform for like minded people to buy
and sell items that appeal to a refined taste - the taste of people who
enjoy scarce books, beautiful and ephemeral old magazines, unique hand
colored maps, early photos, and other interesting old items. Items not
specifically expensive, but not worthless objects, overpriced objects,
or boring objects. Items of low quality, new items and reproductions
that have cluttered the internet are not welcome on MYNOTERA, and
sellers are asked to remove them. The evolution of the internet has
influenced many to list any old thing, with the hopes that of the
billion potential customers, one just might buy his or her item.
MYNOTERA intends to provide only the kinds of things that experienced
book and treasure hunters prefer. Where one can expect that almost every
object offered will have some inherent value, and it's worth the effort
to spend time there and try to acquire things worth owning. MYNOTERA
does not demand that an item be expensive or rare, but does require that
it hold a value that will attract the types of individuals to whom it
wants to appeal. Rare and scarce books, early comics, catalogs, unique
antiques, vintage magazines, old postcards, sheet music, posters, maps,
stamps, ....... are all welcome, if not of run of the mill quality.
Things that have been listed on other sites with no success, things that
are known to be overpriced, things that have no obvious value are not
wanted. We expect that the people who register with MYNOTERA know good
from bad. Valuable stuff is sometimes hard to evaluate. Worthless stuff
is easy. In our pursuit of eliciting support, we have run into many
barriers. The first barrier being the aforementioned desire to change a
sow's ear into a silk purse. Plus, the internet has absorbed and worn
down its audience. Many find it hard to break old habits and are
satisfied with only the places they have been married to for so long.
Some sellers have produced incredibly large data bases of every type of
book ever printed. Some books listed will never sell, and other books
are listed for years, waiting for that one meager customer. Nothing will
move these sellers away from their data bases or their concrete view of
the business. Because they have spent the time listing anything and
everything, they adamantly refuse to filter out the few items MYNOTERA
would like to have them present, citing that depleting their more
interesting stuff would only make their giant site even more lackluster
and cost them money in time. Others we have spoken to are satisfied to
remain stagnant. Many feel that the entire world of buyers has been
locked into one successful site. This is unrealistic, but is another
wall MYNOTERA must deal with. There are people who have devoted so much
work into their enterprise they ask "Why take on more work?" They, too,
are hard to reckon with. Some have just used up their energy, and don‘t
want to add a new burden to their workload; and it's this workload that
MYNOTERA disagrees with in its philosophy. Buying and selling on the
internet has evolved into a big workaday burden. The fun of seeking
sleepers and hidden treasures has been structured into a set of tedious
chores -title searching one's wants amidst the overwhelming amount of
dreadful stuff found on internet auctions. MYNOTERA wishes to change
that with its site. A bazaar like atmosphere has been created. Items are
a little harder to find. It’s more attuned to the idea of walking into
an old time pre-web antique shop or bookstore. And to the observant
browser this antique and book store is like no other, as it is filled
with thousands of interesting items stacked here and there and waiting
for entrepreneurs and like minded people to walk through appreciating
and revealing hidden avenues. Bumping into not only the items they seek
most, but other items worthy of their time. A little bit of untidiness
but holding many treasures to reconcile their effort, and a pleasurable
way found to spend an hour or so. MYNOTERA enjoys added growth everyday,
yet we are impatient to be found. Each day more and better items find
their way to the site. Some are then bought by pickers moving the items
to larger sites to capitalize on their low cost. Some are bought by
collectors who continually seek obscure and unique things. And some are
purchased as a whim, motivated by the unique flavor an item might hold.
All types of buyers are welcome. MYNOTERA tries to satisfy those looking
to make a second income and those looking for a hard to find item, and
those who spontaneously spy an item of interest. Our selling prices are
realistic and attempt to attract resellers. Our resolution in finding
the "hard to find" is a solid principle in our philosophy. Think about
how exciting it would be to walk into an antique mall filled with
reasonably priced scarce books and prints, maps, stamps, magazines,
antiques, etc. and finding items that hold amazing content and are so
well priced that they could be resold at a profit. That type of store is
almost non-existent today, because the internet (offering maximum
profit) has depleted nearly every neat item from antique malls, small
and large shops, and even flea markets. Can you remember the last time
you found a couple of worthy items in an antique mall? Wade through the
MYNOTERA stock. Analyze what’s in front of you. Ask yourself, " How did
all this great stuff get here, all in one place?" Then research how
inexpensively much of the stock can be purchased. If you're not an
entrepreneur, become one. It’s easy. Just meander through the amazing
amount of sleepers on MYNOTERA. If MYNOTERA was a brick and mortar
store, we feel confident that you would spend an hour or so rummaging
through the stock, and would find more than you bargained for.
