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The forums can get a bit depressing with all of the ebay problems and sellers threatening to pack their bags and leave, so I thought I would share a bit of ebay fun I,ve had in the past few days. ( yes there is still some there if you look hard enough )
I was browsing through the ebay book auctions a few weeks ago when I spotted a book with very brief title for $5 starting bid. I knew I could sell it for $50 and it would be a quick flip, so I put a $5 bid on it and promptly forgot all about it. I didnt think any more about it until I logged in a week or so later to find I had won the auction and the seller had opened a non payment claim, as I hadnt paid. A quick paypal transfer solved that and the padded bag with the book eventually turned up in the mail. I didnt bother opening it and just threw it in a pile with a couple of others to attend to when I got around to it.
Well I finally got around to opening it yesterday. As soon as I opened it I realised it was a rare edition in near mint condition and worth $100.............
Feeling pretty chuffed I thumbed through the pages and noticed a small 20 page book, stapled to the back cover. I new this book series pretty well, but that was a new one to me. I had never heard of it before. A google search showed it was ultra rare with perhaps only 50 or so printed. Wikapedia mentioned it, but the info there was all wrong, so after further research I edited the wikapedia entry.
Next I listed the little 20 page booklet on ebay for $200 and it sold within two hours to a collector in Japan. ( must have been too cheap....
) Ive still got the $100 book which will sell fairly quickly. All up it has been a pretty interesting little game. It looks like theres still some life left in the old ebay dog after all.
The two I purchased for $5 today are only going to be $35 books, but they should sell reasonably quickly at that price. Its bread and butter stuff, but thats what makes the ebay world go round.
I sold a really nice 1911 book a few weeks ago for a bit over $100. I was a bit dissapointed it sold as I wouldnt have minded keeping it myself. But we cant keep everything. The wife keeps telling me I have to clean some of my hoard up, but the longer I keep it, the more it is worth when I do get around to selling it..... she calls it junk. I call it investments.......
@chameleon54 wrote:The two I purchased for $5 today are only going to be $35 books, but they should sell reasonably quickly at that price. Its bread and butter stuff, but thats what makes the ebay world go round.
I bought a Kalinda book at a fete for $1 years ago that I knew would sell quickly,(it ended up being the best
profit wise as it sold for $137.50).
Bought another Kalinda a few weeks later that was held together by a shoe lace through holes in the spine for
50 cents and sold it for $50
It's being fun finding books that have sold on here,(don't it so much now as I don't go to the Op shops much
and their prices are ludicrous).
Clearance sales are few and far between and there doesn't seem to be many books at garage sales these
days,(but I still live in hope to find those books that can still make a profit),
