"House of Resell reared their head during the Kate Bush "How to be Invisible" signed sale last year, "proudly" touting how they got 1/5th of the stock, I think. Jor-El's post about comparatively few people in the group…"
"New stuff from Indigo - not sure if these were seen before:
I Love You: Recipes from the Heart: Signed Edition | Indigo
Connie: A Memoir: Signed Edition | Indigo"
"Do you have the Rowling as an HQ scan? I only ask because I wouldn't be surprised if it was a secretarial. She's done the same thing for a fair chunk of her fan mail in the past and we had a big discussion about this last year."
"It's a publisher-level directive, not a distributor one. I've seen it happen with several companies in the past year, including Doubleday, , Image and some record labels. The big one was the Dylan fiasco, but there have been numerous…"
"Yep, shipping rates are the biggest grift on EBay, IMO. Half the time, I won't even go after an item I want because the seller is taking on $50-60 in extra int'l shipping charges to make extra bucks on the backend.
The only time I broke…"
"Maybe I've just been pretty lucky, but most of the signed books I've bought through EBay were, at the least, shipped competently. The only horror story I had in the last year was a signed book that came from Waterstones in the U.K. that…"
"A lot of the shenanigans related to trimming autos/reselling them were motivated were pandemic-era craziness fueling a rise in collectibles across the board.
It's why you had nonsense like Topps charging absurd premiums for their Transcendant…"
"" Are modern collectors so vain they have cannot have personalization's? "
Yes. All the time.
I hang around with a collector buddy (we swap signed books and hit up thrift stores) who has outright told me many times that, when it…"
"It was a one-use code tied to my account - wouldn't let me use it again when I tried to place an order for a different book. I thought it had expired, actually, since my birthday was last month."