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That $80 'classic book collection' I found at a garage sale in Ohio burned me bad
I bought a whole box of those old leather-bound classics thinking I got a steal, but half of them had mold growing inside the covers and the pages were all crinkly and stuck together. Has anyone else fallen for vintage book deals that turned out to be more trouble than they were worth?
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abbyp611d ago
Stop right there because you actually got exactly what you paid for. Old books with that kind of patina (mold and crinkled pages) are worth way more to collectors than pristine copies, especially if they're pre-1900s editions. I once sold a moldy 1880s Dickens set for triple what you dropped on that box, just because the leather binding was intact and the smell (you know, that old book smell) was authentic. That garage sale find might be a hidden gem if you clean it carefully and list it on the right marketplace, so don't cry about it yet.
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phoenix_singh251d ago
200 dollars for a box of books with actual mold in them doesn't sound like a deal to me, @abbyp61, even if there's a slim chance it's collectible. You got lucky with that Dickens set, but most garage sale finds are just old books that people threw out for a reason.
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hugotaylor14h ago
Feel you on this one. That first moment when you open up a "vintage" book and get hit with a cloud of mold spores is rough. Hope you didn't breathe too much of that stuff in.
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