Auction madness?

Mar 01, 2008 4 Replies

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Peter J Seymour

Even on a single site such as abebooks, I have seen the price for a title differ between sellers by an amazing 90 times. Buyer beware. Peter

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Caught my eye due to hot air and gas engine content but nearly ninety quid for a reprint? A quick check of abebooks produced several copies starting at under twenty!



Nick H


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Never a good basis to enter an auction.

Peter

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Even on a single site such as abebooks, I have seen the price for a title differ between sellers by an amazing 90 times. Buyer beware. Peter

Nick, Next time that a book on eBay catches your eye, check out AddAll instead of ABE. They search ABE and a whole bunch of other similar out-of-print sites.

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I've made the same observation on eBay; namely that bidders simply don't realize that a book just MAY be available for a fraction of the eBay price. Always check the book sellers first, THEN bid on eBay.

See ya, Arnie

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Thanks for the tip Arnie.

Nick H

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