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Old 04-17-2023, 05:47 PM   #266
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Originally Posted by graycyn View Post

As I do buy some OOP vintage books, there's a trend that is great for buyers, but not so much for sellers. I've noticed that 95% of the time or better, if I make an offer for a book on eBay, it is accepted!
I don't even bother making an offer- I let the seller make an offer to me, by putting their listing in my watchlist. Whoops, I just got a ding with an offer for the first six mystery novels in Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective series. Cost was less than the Kobo epub price for the same group of books!

I've done this for used cameras as well, with the introduction of mirrorless cameras basically killing the market for DSLR.

I wish I had known how valuable pulp detective magazines of the pre-1960 era would become in the 21st century. Between those magazines and comic books, I could have funded my retirement for an entire decade.
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