u/HorrorMakesUsHappy

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I forgot to bring my Reddit password with me when I went out of town, so I'm just now getting back on here. I've updated the BOTM threads, and wanted to share an idea that I'd gotten at StokerCon last week.

Even though I'm not a librarian, I attended one of the librarian panels because I was curious about the topic ("Brains! Brains! Brainstorming ways to engage your community"). There was a lot of interesting conversation about library programming, but one of the librarians shared that they also host a horror book club. Unlike ours where we vote for each month as they come, they plan out the entire year.

Part of this is because it allows the library to make sure they have extra copies of that month's book on hand for patrons to check out, but it made me wonder if it might be easier for us as a community to do something similar. Like, if we started 2026 by having everyone post their TBR pile and we found out that that five people all had The Eyes Are The Best Part in their pile then clearly that would've been a good book to read in 2026 because multiple people already owned it and wanted to read it. We're already halfway through 2026, but maybe this is something we could do this December, and plan out all of 2027.

Of course the down side is that this would mean potentially missing out on selecting hot books as they're released, but no one's saying you can't read something else if you wanted to.

What do you guys think?

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Here's the link if you want to make a suggestion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorbookclub/comments/1t0xkha/june_2026_horror_book_club_voting_thread/

Here's the link for July suggestions if you want to leave one for next month while you're at it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorbookclub/comments/1ttwog4/july_2026_horror_book_club_voting_thread/

Hey all. I used to have a side business selling and/or reselling stuff on eBay years ago, but stopped somewhere between 2005-2008 when I graduated college. I've still bought stuff, but it's been a long time since I've wanted to sell anything, and now that I'm trying to ... ugh.

So apparently they've removed Paypal as a method for me to collect payments and they want my checking account number so they can wire funds into and out of my checking account without oversight. That's a massive no for me. I guess I can contact my bank to see if they'll set me up with a separate checking account that I can use just for eBay, but I assume they'll want to charge me for maintaining a second checking account. Is this what everyone's doing now?

I certainly hope their payments to me wouldn't be treated as wire transfers (with fees), but I don't see anything about that on eBay's help page. I'd like to assume that means they're not, but can anyone else confirm one way or the other?

How are refunds handled? They don't specify on their help page, so it's unclear. I can still use Paypal to pay for things on eBay, so do they issue refunds from my Paypal account or directly from my checking account? When Paypal was in the middle there was a bit of a buffer where refunds could be made from my Paypal balance without needing to transfer funds from my bank account, but if eBay's trying to cut out Paypal then I assume they'll want to just pull from whatever checking account you give them access to.

Has anyone had any problems with eBay taking funds out of your account without asking?

Really annoyed that they want my DoB and SSN, but I suspect that's so they can report our income to the IRS, not because they need it to handle payments. No one needs my DoB or SSN to cash a check or to mail me one. Really, REALLY annoyed that they don't state that correctly on their site.

Anything else stupid/annoying/concerning I need to know about that's changed for sellers over the last ... yeesh ... 20 years?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorbookclub/comments/1s9oq44/may_2026_horror_book_club_voting_thread/