Chatting with Bobo while he surfed Ebay.
"This guy thinks he's going to get more than 1,000 for this pile of junk because that's what he paid for it. Schools should start teaching a Realities of the Market class."
I get this all the time at the store.
"I paid $30 for this!"
"And I'm not giving you more than $2."
A lot of people think because something is theirs it is automatically valuable. Finessing around this giant cultural blind spot takes up a lot of my time when I'm buying stuff, assuming the books are worth the effort.
Sometimes I just shove reality out onto the stage, naked and shivering in the spotlight, and let the customer make of it what they will.
A gal was just in a couple of bags of absolute crap.
I winnowed two mildly saleable books out of the dross, a Getty collection of photos from the '50s that was slightly water damaged and a Melissa Bank book we didn't have in stock. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing is her only really saleable title, but it's nice to have the other one if we can get it cheap.
My offer of $2.00 didn't go over well and the titles rejoined their companions with the huffy exclamation that she'd "sell them on Amazon".
Yeah...good luck with that.
Assuming she actually lists them and gets a buyer (the Getty book had condition problems and would have been 'as is' in the store, which is a recipe for a costly and annoying return on Amazon) she'll make....two bucks.
GRATZ!
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