I am 84 years old and am selling my life's accumulation of stuff, mostly electronic or sailboat equipment made in the 1930s,40s, 50s, 60s and 70s and associated with my ham radio and sailing hobbies.. I have no records of actual purchase dates or amounts for much of this stuff. All told, this stuff is being sold at a loss, and in some cases at a great loss. I had no intent to be a business do not expect any profits, only losses. Nor did I want to throw the stuff in a landfill. Nor did I intend to have to buy a Turbo-tax upgrade to get a Schedule C. Can I avoid Schedule C by showing the income as Miscellaneous Income, attaching the Schedule K and including a reasonable explanation that I am not in a business and that the Ebay sales were sold at a loss?
