Very interesting. Do you track down books for customers that you don't have in stock, do customer's leave "wants lists" with you? Just curious about your process for sleuthing out those OOP books. Many years ago I worked for a booksellers in Somerset (new books only), and people would ask for some very hard to get books at times - our database was nowhere near as sophisticated as what is available today. Also curious as to your thoughts on rebinding of old books, do you think this is something that should be done, or does it reduce the value too much, is preservation a better path to take?
Sure. However the internet has completely revolutionised that side of the business. I can find 99.99% of OOP books in seconds, but then so too can anyone else. Most of the tracking down work I do is done for convenience to the customer and also knowing my way around internet sites. Pretty much every bookshop on the planet sells their books through Abebooks. The "book search" thing can (if one is not careful) end up being very time-consuming for very little profit so I devote most of my time to just buying good stock and getting it catalogued. Regarding book-binding/restoring, it depends absolutely on what the book is, i.e. is it a "collectable" book or rather an antiquarian book that is valued for its content and not its cover. Like all things books there are no hard and fast rules. Thanks for your interesting question Jack.
I made an offer for a book and the seller came back with a higher price. I didn't accept his counter offer. A day later he emailed me and said I could have it for the price I first nominated. I considered the transaction finished when my offer was rejected. Later, I checked his eBay site. He had this book for sale since this time last year. The seller could have sold it, instead he is stuck with it now. I used the money saved, toward a more expensive book on the same subject from overseas.
@@thebookman4126 Just another detail, in the email he said he just wanted to see if he could get another $5 AUD out of me.🙄 I wanted to keep my initial post as short as possible.
Wish this guy made more videos
cheers to this!!!
Just binge watched your set of great videos. Learned a lot! Thanks!
Do You ever plan to make more videos ?
Thats a new level of book selling.
If libraries were walking and talking people, they would look and act like this guy.
Very interesting. Do you track down books for customers that you don't have in stock, do customer's leave "wants lists" with you? Just curious about your process for sleuthing out those OOP books. Many years ago I worked for a booksellers in Somerset (new books only), and people would ask for some very hard to get books at times - our database was nowhere near as sophisticated as what is available today. Also curious as to your thoughts on rebinding of old books, do you think this is something that should be done, or does it reduce the value too much, is preservation a better path to take?
Sure. However the internet has completely revolutionised that side of the business. I can find 99.99% of OOP books in seconds, but then so too can anyone else. Most of the tracking down work I do is done for convenience to the customer and also knowing my way around internet sites. Pretty much every bookshop on the planet sells their books through Abebooks. The "book search" thing can (if one is not careful) end up being very time-consuming for very little profit so I devote most of my time to just buying good stock and getting it catalogued. Regarding book-binding/restoring, it depends absolutely on what the book is, i.e. is it a "collectable" book or rather an antiquarian book that is valued for its content and not its cover. Like all things books there are no hard and fast rules. Thanks for your interesting question Jack.
I made an offer for a book and the seller came back with a higher price. I didn't accept his counter offer. A day later he emailed me and said I could have it for the price I first nominated. I considered the transaction finished when my offer was rejected. Later, I checked his eBay site. He had this book for sale since this time last year. The seller could have sold it, instead he is stuck with it now. I used the money saved, toward a more expensive book on the same subject from overseas.
You were wise to stick to your guns. The loss is his. Well done you
@@thebookman4126 Just another detail, in the email he said he just wanted to see if he could get another $5 AUD out of me.🙄 I wanted to keep my initial post as short as possible.
link to Amazon shop?
Even better. My own website: harrowdenbooks.co.uk