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Mr. Mike
May 17, 2013, 7:55:56 PM5/17/13
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Sacqueboutier
May 24, 2013, 8:05:49 PM5/24/13
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wade
May 25, 2013, 10:51:54 AM5/25/13
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David Fox
May 25, 2013, 12:18:16 PM5/25/13
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wade
May 25, 2013, 12:20:28 PM5/25/13
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John Thomas
May 25, 2013, 2:44:52 PM5/25/13
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will. The touching belief among eBay naifs that anything old and out
of print must be extremely valuable amazes me.
Matthew B. Tepper
May 27, 2013, 2:56:05 AM5/27/13
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David Fox <davidf...@yahoo.com> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:1885887074391191459.388269davidfox2116-
yaho...@news.giganews.com:
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of
cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses."
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letters to be typed in news:1885887074391191459.388269davidfox2116-
yaho...@news.giganews.com:
cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses."
--
Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!!
Read about "Proty" here: http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/proty.html
To write to me, do for my address what Androcles did for the lion
Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employers.
Mr. Mike
May 29, 2013, 6:25:50 PM5/29/13
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On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:44:52 -0700 (PDT), John Thomas
<abras...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The touching belief among eBay naifs that anything old and out
>of print must be extremely valuable amazes me.
This sort of thinking filters down to some of the thrift shops in my
<abras...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The touching belief among eBay naifs that anything old and out
>of print must be extremely valuable amazes me.
area (and I'm sure elsewhere), that if some book is REALLY old (or if
a book is REALLY heavy), then it must be worth a lot of money.
At one local store, I recently saw "vintage" books like this being
sold for $29.99 and $39.99. Considering the resources available to
price these books (bookfinder.com, amazon.com, etc.), it didn't take
me much effort to find out that these supposedly rare titles were
selling for $5 and less elsewhere.
Selling books for such ridiculous prices makes the thrift stores look
silly, just like a grocery store would look silly if they were selling
loaves of Wonder Bread for $10-$20 each.
Christopher Webber
May 29, 2013, 6:36:40 PM5/29/13
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On 29/05/2013 23:25, Mr. Mike wrote:
> Selling books for such ridiculous prices makes the thrift stores look
> silly, just like a grocery store would look silly if they were selling
> loaves of Wonder Bread for $10-$20 each.
>
Most of our Charity Shops here in the UK (the equivalent of your thrift
> Selling books for such ridiculous prices makes the thrift stores look
> silly, just like a grocery store would look silly if they were selling
> loaves of Wonder Bread for $10-$20 each.
>
stores, more or less) now do at least some selling on Amazon - and they
certainly keep in touch with Amazon prices, so when it comes to Charity
Shop books and CDs these days they know their value (alas, no more full
scores of "Pelleas et Melisande" for 1GBP here!)
When a CD *is* out of print, and nobody else is selling it, it is most
definitely worth pumping up the value: you might always come across a
buyer who wants that particular disc, and wants it now at any price.
I've made the odd "killing" myself that way. When a market forms sanity
(usually) returns.
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