08-09-2012, 01:28 PM
I have another story to share.
About 15 months ago in my quest to find gothics, at one of the many, many book stores I had stopped at, I found about 30 of them on the bottom row in the romance section. So I proceeded with my offer to the owner: "If I take most of them, will you sell them to me at 2/ $1?" She says: "Oh no, I couldn't sell them for that."
So I left the store, sort of keeping it in the back of my mind that perhaps in a year or so I'll come back and make the offer again on the books. I knew they'd still be there, because you know, they just don't seem to sell. Especially at the prices the owners want for them.
So yesterday I was in this town again and I saw what I thought at first may be a new book store because I'd never seen it before. But the name sounded familiar. So I went in and discovered that it was the same store described above. The lady had moved. I looked around the store for those gothics, sort of already knowing I wouldn't find them. So I asked the lady about them. She remembered me. She said she donated those books when she moved. Then she added: Sorry.
Doesn't that beat all? She couldn't sell them to me for .50 each, but she had no problem just giving them away less than a year later. I hope she thought about me when she was giving them away.
I'm telling you, book sellers are strange people.
About 15 months ago in my quest to find gothics, at one of the many, many book stores I had stopped at, I found about 30 of them on the bottom row in the romance section. So I proceeded with my offer to the owner: "If I take most of them, will you sell them to me at 2/ $1?" She says: "Oh no, I couldn't sell them for that."
So I left the store, sort of keeping it in the back of my mind that perhaps in a year or so I'll come back and make the offer again on the books. I knew they'd still be there, because you know, they just don't seem to sell. Especially at the prices the owners want for them.
So yesterday I was in this town again and I saw what I thought at first may be a new book store because I'd never seen it before. But the name sounded familiar. So I went in and discovered that it was the same store described above. The lady had moved. I looked around the store for those gothics, sort of already knowing I wouldn't find them. So I asked the lady about them. She remembered me. She said she donated those books when she moved. Then she added: Sorry.
Doesn't that beat all? She couldn't sell them to me for .50 each, but she had no problem just giving them away less than a year later. I hope she thought about me when she was giving them away.
I'm telling you, book sellers are strange people.
