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Post by ripper on Mar 27, 2015 9:44:27 GMT
Having suspected that my copy of 'Childmare' was either given away many years ago or is slumbering somewhere in our attic, I decided to purchase another. What on earth is going on? ABE and Amazon want £800+ for a copy! I have no idea why this book commands such outrageous prices. Did it have a very small print run compared with other Hamlyns? Sharman's other books seem to be selling at reasonable prices but 'Childmare' is waaaaaay out of my reach when £800+ is the going rate.
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Post by erebus on Mar 27, 2015 12:05:30 GMT
Ridiculous, its the same on ebay. Thing is those book selling wholesalers haven't a clue of the book they are on about, and know little about what they are selling. They just see other companies prices and follow suit, even if there is a typo.
Thing is Childmare always pops up on ebay for a couple of quid. I don't think its rare at all. I've witnessed this phenomena ( if you will ) many times when Ive tried to track a book down. Wait a few week or so and when the heat is off they appear again at the proper price. Bloody annoying though isn't it.
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Post by bluetomb on Mar 27, 2015 13:57:18 GMT
That's pretty ridiculous. At work at the moment I've been coming across signed first editions from people like W Somerset Maugham and Graham Green valued at less.
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Post by ripper on Mar 27, 2015 15:10:21 GMT
Erebus, I am sure you are right about the Amazon, ABE and Ebay wholesale sellers knowing little about books and book values. If they knew the market then surely they would understand that no-one would be prepared to pay £800+ for a copy of that book. I just had a look at the prices on a whim and was going to order one, but when I saw those prices it shocked me. I can understand first-editions signed by famous deceased writers being sold at high prices as Bluetomb said, but not for a 35-year old mass market paperback. I will just keep monitoring the prices until something much more reasonable appears.
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Post by thesmileysmiler on Mar 28, 2015 17:59:48 GMT
Funnily enough I bought that exact copy from Amazon last month for 75p!
Sometimes it works the other way though. The Friday the 13th 2 novelisation had been sitting at between £700 to £1000 for a couple of years, and then one day I checked and someone had a copy for £15, which I snapped up. I don't understand what makes the prices fluctuate so much though.
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Post by ripper on Mar 29, 2015 9:54:13 GMT
Hi Smiler. Yep, it makes me shake my head when prices seem to have no logical rhyme nor reason about them.
BTW I notice on ABE that there are copies of 'Childmare' for sale published by Signet in 1981 and all in US bookshops but with the writer as 'A.G. Scott' rather than 'Nick Sharman.'
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