Re: Query: The House Called Hadlows by Victoria Walker

"Graeme Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > It was interesting. When we enquired about the book we were told it
would
> > make high hundreds based on a copy on the internet selling for £1600 (we
had
> > seen the same one). We sent the book and got back the catalogue with an
> > estimate of £2-300. When we contacted Bloomsbury they said that the only
> > copy they could find on the internet was £500. We checked and the copy
that
> > had been at a thousands had dropped by half!
> >
> > Shortly afterwards this copy disappeared from the internet so either it
had
> > been sold or removed from sale. Either way we figured our book was worth
at
> > least £500 and instructed Bloomsbury to increase the reserve to £500.
They
> > also issued an ammendment to the catalogue which was put up at the front
of
> > the rostrum with an estimate of £5-600.
> >
> > What we wonder is if the estimate had been £5-600 in the initial
catalogue
> > whether the starting bid would have been £500 but I guess we will never
> > know.
>
> I just chanced across this posting and thought I'd chip in too, since you
> seem to be talking about books that I have sold.
> For the record I have sold one very nice copy at just over 1,000 , about
the
> time of the auction another much less nice copy for 525 .  Rather than
just
> blindly checking listings it's quite good to check descriptions too.
> I now have a another almost perfect copy again at 1,000.
> The copy you have been touting around is not a nice copy in that the
jacket
> is torn and from memory it is stained internally and whilst your copy is
> signed there is no way this can ever be authenticated until ( if ever) Ms
> Walker reappears, although it does of course make it interesting.
> I think at 240 you were offered about trade market price and I think I was
> the underbidder.
> What I'm failing to understand is why you're so reluctant to sell a book
you
> paid 50 pence for at a huge profit since you don't have the confidence to
> try and sell it direct.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Graeme
> Magpie Books
>
>

I love the smell of sour grapes in the morning...

Sorry mate but it sounds like your saying that its OK for you to sell your
copies for 1,000 but that OP should settle for what you are willing to pay,
hell, I would be reluctant to sell for 200 odd quid knowing you were
churning them out at over 500 a time. If  you regularly sell for 500 + then
by your own admission there is a market and it sounds like OP made the right
choice to not sell for less.

Kind regards,

Huw