Melissa - thanks for the helpful instructions. That was easy! I sent the e-mail already and will let you know if I hear anything. Do Amazom sellers usually respond to inquiries in your experience. The book seller has a 96% positive rating.
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Melissa - thanks for the helpful instructions. That was easy! I sent the e-mail already and will let you know if I hear anything. Do Amazom sellers usually respond to inquiries in your experience. The book seller has a 96% positive rating.
Judi, I've only purchased an out-of-print book once from Amazon (I needed to for a class). Though I never wrote, the seller was really prompt and kept me up-to-date with e-mails. My guess is they'd be more likely to respond if they thought you were actually interested in purchasing it (I know I would! [img]wink.gif[/img] ), but hopefully they will respond anyway.
I think they're often individual people who rescue discarded books from libraries and then resell them, so it would depend on the person who you write. I think there are two sellers there with the same price, if you wanted to try both. Thanks for checking for all of us who are as curious as cats! [img]graemlins/cat.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Good grief...I have 17 of the History Mysteries and if I sold them all for that price, I could pay off my entire college loan debt. Who in their right mind would pay that much for a skinny little paperback book?? [img]eek.gif[/img]
Just like Melissa, I've only purchased one oop book through the Amazon Marketplace. It arrived incredibly fast, and was in nearly perfect condition (the fact that I paid $11 with shipping, when it normally goes for $40ish on ebay made me very happy, [img]wink.gif[/img] ), so my good experience probably doesn't mean much. The person I bought the book from didn't contact me at all, but I didnt contact them either. The book arrived about 3 days after I ordered it, so I didn't feel slighted by the fact that there was no communication.
I agree that they'll be more than happy to respond to you. After all, you aren't going to just drop $900 on a single book (that's an ex-library copy, at that!). You'll probably get a response saying the book is oop, rare, and hard to find. I hope you get more than that, as those three things do not equal up to over $900. Do let us know if they respond.
Has anyone seen any of the History Mysteries in bookstores lately? I'm wondering if this book really IS anymore rare than #22, as it comes after it, and should be, if anything, more rare.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hah! I don't know but I would sure like to find that person and sell him or her my books!LOL!Quote:
Originally posted by Katie148:
Good grief...I have 17 of the History Mysteries and if I sold them all for that price, I could pay off my entire college loan debt. Who in their right mind would pay that much for a skinny little paperback book?? [img]eek.gif[/img]
My Borders still has the last one, which is rare enough to go for about double the original price but no more.
And I own the expensive one, and call me crazy but I wouldn't sell it. I own all of them and the missing #21 would drive me nuts. [img]confused.gif[/img]
<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ February 22, 2006 05:35 PM: Message edited by: rebecca191 ]</font>
I have not gotten a response from the seller yet. [img]frown.gif[/img]
I would not want to be missing one book in a series, however, I think the $911 would ease my pain at not having the book. [img]wink.gif[/img]
I was going to e-mail the sellers and ask if it was a mistake, but I couldn't figure out how to make the communication. I would really love to know that answer, however.
If I were you Judi Id be listing them on ebay and fast.. Lots of new dollie stuff can move in for that kind of price.. [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]confused.gif[/img]
I would in a heartbeat if I thought any book that I had could fetch that kind of price. I just can't believe it is not some kind of error. [img]confused.gif[/img]