Edited by The late Stu on 2025-12-18 8:13:20 PM UTC
2025-12-18 8:12:49 PM UTC
Seller completely fails to disclose that the jacket has been laminated (and is therefore essentially worthless), presumably hoping that the buyer won't notice. Sigh. They were able to write an essay about it, but missed this important fact.
Were they signed? If not, then that is nuts (it is nuts even if signed, tbh)!
To be honest, if I was a filthy billionaire [1st 1st, I failed at quoting the ], I would absolutely spend money for that even if it was ridiculously overpriced (my precious).
That, and make the world a better place I guess, but first satisfy all book desires.
Were they signed? If not, then that is nuts (it is nuts even if signed, tbh)!
To be honest, if I was a filthy billionaire [1st 1st, I failed at quoting the ], I would absolutely spend money for that even if it was ridiculously overpriced (my precious).
That, and make the world a better place I guess, but first satisfy all book desires.
Unfortunately that is exactly what is pricing out a lot of goods from ordinary people. We essentially end up with a two speed economy, with these kinds of things becoming priced based on capabilities of the uber wealthy. We are seeing at across more normal goods as well (basically it is an inflation rate for the poor based on the ability of the more wealthy to consume) . There is an economic term for it that, frustratingly, I can't remember.
Edited by The late Stu on 2025-12-21 8:48:26 PM UTC Edited by The late Stu on 2025-12-21 8:49:53 PM UTC
2025-12-21 8:43:49 PM UTC
£395 for a 1970 Hobbit with the text block bound in upside down and something has eaten multiple big holes in the spine/back-strip of the jacket (though Adrian Harrington does a good job of not showing that very well)
This book has no economic value. Book dealers looking for pre-Christmas suckers, I guess.
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