a book just paid for my rent

i think the most i've sold a LP or CD for is just 150 dollars, though. maybe 200 dollars.

What book was that?

an art book, on rubens.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516NRZMP17L._SS400_.jpg

Sold a copy of this book, which came out all of five years ago, for £50.

What LP or CD was that?

srsly dom? that's insane.

came out 2001 but yeah.

how did you find out its value? xxxp

Seriously. Charlie Brooker stans obviously have too much cash on their hands.

xxp

how did you find out its value? xxxp

-- baaderonixx, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:13 (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Shoved it on eBay for £10, and just watched the bid value increase

this is my dream

well i have many dreams but finding a valuable antique in my house is one of em

i have the tvgohome book too. i'm rich!

London Birth Of A Cult by Hedi Slimane was worth about $900 a while back, on rare book site. Moot, because will not sell.

That guy who found the Persian gold cup under his bed only got 50k for it after 500k hype. DUDE FFS watch any Bargain Cunt and PUT A RESERVE ON.

I got a broken synth from my university's "junk sale" day for free and sold it on ebay for more than a grand.

neato... did it look cool?

I have no clue how to determine the value of what I own

I might "borrow" the TvGoHome book from Lynskey...

I found a copy of Harvey Kurtzman's 1st EC comic, Lucky Fights It Through (a VD-education comic about "that ignorant, ignorant cowboy") for $2 and sold it for $750.

It was bagged with another VD-education comic, Little Willie, that is so rare/obscure that it's not in Overstreet. Done by the same people who did Doc Carter VD Comics, near as I can tell. I still have that one.

It looked cool, and the lights turned on when plugged in, but it only made one sound and the keyboard wiring was fucked. I'm sure whoever bought it was able to fix it. It was an @rp 2600.

(nb I really did intend to try and save it but it was a losing proposition -- also, broke college student)

Somebody gave me a jacket that had been left behind in a dorm after move out and was never claimed. I had it for years before I knew what a "Loro Piana Horsey 20K jacket" was.

at least you got good money! woulda been awesome if you had the money to fix it but life is tough
xp

x-post -- Great. Now you can tell all of us what the hell kind of jacket that is.

$500 Italian football hooligan-wear masquerading as bourgie clothes in the US. If you wore this in Italy it'd be all paninaro all the time.

Suzy knows what it is.

A friend of mine is always finding valuable records and stuff. Also weird vintage shades and jackets and stuff at thrift stores for a few dollars a piece. Just recently he found (FOR FREE) some old Minneapolis garage comp worth $400-$500 or something. I remember a while back he sold um...I forget what it was, some unremarkable but rare private press folk album from days of yore.

Best I ever scored was this Roky Erickson lp for fifty cents at a thrift store that I later saw listed for $40.00, though I don't think that's actually the going price.

oops, private press folk album fetched something like $400

Nevermind, just found two different places selling Gremlins Have Pictures lp for about $40. Sure enough...

There's 3 copies of TVGoHome on ebay at present at around the £25 mark. Clearly the market is saturated.

And yet the Take Hart annual has no bids. What a crazy world.

I was hoping this would happen when I found a copy of the Winter 1963-64 issue of Film Culture at a church book sale for fifty cents. It didn't.

Err, actually Winter 1962-63.

that's a pity, i would have bid 2-3k easy for the 63-64 but 62-63? pssh

what the hell is that tvgohome book?

One time, I got a CDr promo of Paul McCartney's Twin Peaks project. This wasn't released on CD, double album only. So I put it on e-bay, due to finish before we went on holiday. We were flying off from Newcastle, so we got there a couple days early.

I popped into a library to use their internet, checked through my emails, one was there saying "Hi, I bailed at £200, congrats you lucky bloke!"

So, I checked the closed auction, it ended at £650.

I came out, trembling, and met my wife, and told her I'd just paid off the holiday! (2 weeks, spain, all in, flight not included)

I bought 3 NIN singles from a guy for $6 and sold them on ebay for ~$130. One of them went for ~$50... that's no £650, though.

Slocki: TVGoHome was the website that bought Charlie Brooker his way into the UK media. It is also point of genesis for Nathan Barley.

NIN singles? I got some of them. Well CD ones. Were they particularly rare?

90s alt-rock cd singles can be worth a surprising amount.

What LP or CD was that?

i sold some folkways lps for around $100 or $150 (new-music stuff, but also ethnographic stuff) ... some other stuff which i'm forgetting.

There's a Japanese version of Zappa's Cucamonga Years that I found for $10 at Amoeba (Berkeley) and sold for about $100. At least during 1998-2001, there was a fair amt. of collectible stuff available there for cheap.

i got a free signed frame photo of bobby orr when i bought my tv and sold it to a guy for $100!!!!!!!!

Most I ever got selling on Ebay was £62 for a 7" I bought for 50p. Not exactly rent-paying though. I keep sleeping on selling these rare post-punk CDs I bought years ago that have been getting reissued lately - Feelies, Au Pairs, etc.

There used to be a great scam involving MVE where you'd call up pretending to be a German goth who'd pay £150 for some daft Nick Cave or Depeche Mode promo, which of course the real you or a pal had been sent as a freebie. Later you'd stroll into Deletions and Rarities with two or three Depeche Mode candles or whatever and KERCHING.

NIN singles? I got some of them. Well CD ones. Were they particularly rare?

Steiff Mickey Mouse doll from the 1920s or early 1930s priced at $.50 in a garage sale, was broke at the time and ended up selling to antique dealer for $400.00 (this was in 1991) so I could buy Christmas presents for family. Probably worth more than that at the time, but I really didn't have a good enough sense of the actual value to haggle.

I'm pretty sure I got my sister-in-law a now collectible (?)The Little Mermaid videotape that had the original cover art with the supposed hidden phallus spire so it's all good in a gift-of-the-magi kinda way.

I inherited a box of license plates that were nailed up on my grandfather's garage wall in Ithaca. 90% of them were covered both sides in rust so at best I figured that I'd get a couple bucks for each. Guess again... There were two 30s-era license plates from Puerto Rico and each sold for $400. The guy who bought them was overjoyed - he was a major collector and he felt like he had all the Christmases and the Holy Grail at once.

i sold an andre williams bloodshot 7" for $155. i own the first sigur ros on LP and it's worth around $100. i bought a book called "the river" about hiv in africa for $10 and sold it for $100. when aron's records was still in existence i used to find mid-period pearl jam vinyl for $6-$7 all the time then turn around and sell it for $60-$70.

I bought a bunch of photography books on remainder from Half Price Books (Robert Frank, Eugene Richards, etc.) for $5-10, I see them listed on Amazon now for $75+ but I dunno if any actually sell.

when aron's records was still in existence i used to find mid-period pearl jam vinyl for $6-$7 all the time then turn around and sell it for $60-$70.

I was making a pretty good profit from Rockaway Records' $1 sales doing this.

I once sold a De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest Cd single, a Francesco Clemente exhibit catalog and a bunch of xerox mini-comix from the 80's in one week on Ebay and scored around $700. This was when folks had money to burn.

toby sold a collection of ceramic natwest piggy banks for several hundred quid, but the best i've done so far is getting $60 for a book i found in my basement that i don't remember ever buying in the first place!

Hey, the book I wrote is now at the bargain bin in select Urban Outfitters for 98 cents if anyone is interested... Well, it paid my rent for awhile, not anymore though.

<3 Phil!

I have a vase which is apparently about 5000 euros? About that price. It's some metal one with chicks on it. (Quelle surprise, my room's filled with chixor art. My dutch friend, when first entering my room, thought I was a lesbian.) I have other shit which wortth quite abit of money. I don't really care nor do not want to know as I'm not interestedi n selling it.

Several years ago on eBay I bought a coin silver flatware service for $200. When I decluttered earlier this year, I got something like $425 for it via an eBay auction service. That wouldn't pay my mortgage, but would cover one month's health insurance premiums.

I wonder if my copy of Big Top Halloween would still fetch as much as it supposedly did in the late 90s.

Hey, the book I wrote is now at the bargain bin in select Urban Outfitters for 98 cents if anyone is interested... Well, it paid my rent for awhile, not anymore though.

What book is that?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743298268/ref=dp_proddesc_1?ie=UTF8&n=283155

that...

old a copy of this book, which came out all of five years ago, for £50.

-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, June 6, 2008 4:12 PM

aw shit i was gonna buy that tvgohome book at the time...

didn't it get withdrawn or something?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5186V7BM1VL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg
I love you
You pay my rent

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743298268/ref=dp_proddesc_1?ie=UTF8&n=283155

that...

Remember when you were supposed to send me a copy?!

- Allen

I sold a load of old Gamecube games a few months back on eBay and most of them did £15 or less each. Not so the Gamecube version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which had keen bidding and went, used, for over £60. Turns out it's some collectible since everyone else got the Wii version.

A couple of years back I heard that the first edition of Chris Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan" goes for good coin too, but after combing through mine looking for publication details finally found Mr Ware's practically hidden note that it's the second ed. Bah.

first printings of the comics go for some okay money. i've been dithering on selling mine for over a year, I should just do it. my kid already ripped one of them up so they're hidden at the bottom of my closet, not doing me any good

bought a book called "the river" about hiv in africa for $10 and sold it for $100

Profit from other people's misery! Why the hell not. Hmm, let's see...cleaning out my mum's place after she died a few years ago I found a box of Chalet School books (mid-20th century novels popular with schoolgirls at the time) in hardcover, no dustjackets or anything. Sold the lot on the bay for approx. £900, which took me by surprise somewhat.

That's a very hypocritical post I wrote there.

i sold a children's book for $1500 once. it was illustrated and signed by arthur rackham. it helped me open the little store i had with my friend lance in philly. i later saw it for sale in the new york times for $3000. cuz i sold it to baumans and they advertise there.

Friend's son had a signed first-500 Harry Potter (his godfather got hold of it for him) and sold it on eBay for stupid ridiculous amounts of money.

Remember when you were supposed to send me a copy?!

- Allen

whaaaaaaa???? what are yooooou doing here???
(i lost your address)

A couple of years back I heard that the first edition of Chris Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan" goes for good coin too, but after combing through mine looking for publication details finally found Mr Ware's practically hidden note that it's the second ed. Bah.

yeah I have some ACME Novelty Library issues that I was gonna try and sell but I don't think they're worth anything

had a few successes though. $30 Frank Kozik poster that went up to $120 on ebay (I think it was Pearl Jam/Soundgarden). second-tier Dan the Automator side project that went for $45 on vinyl to some dude in France. Swedish midcentury modern dining room set that we bought off a former boss for $200, five years later it wouldn't fit in new apartment so put it up on Craigslist and got $600 for it.

You know what I like about this thread? something's valuable and you get rid of it! don't hoard it away and wait for it to increase. I'm living with a hoarder at the moment and it is killing me. there's like 6 crappy stereos here. argh.

I have an old anthology of Neruda poems from the 1950s in mint condition that my dad's mentally ill college friend stole from a university library that I always like to think is probably worth lots of money. Just as well I have no idea how to find out whether it is worth anything because it probably isn't and the dream would be ruined.

oh hey, it's worth $95! Even if dollars were worth anything that wouldn't be great!

An okay, not great, resource for ballpark figures on a book's value: http://used.addall.com/

bought star ocean 2 for $4 when the PS1 platform was dying, sold it for $80 shortly after SO3 came out. game sucked, btw. I don't buy enough rare books/music to get anything from them.

i have a copy of introducing the beatles that's worth like $200. probably wouldn't sell it though.

In the late 90's, I found 4 CD copies of Fucked Up Inside by Spiritualized priced at $1 in a street sale cut-out bin. I already had my own copy and had seen used discs going in stores for up to $50, so I jumped at the investment. These days, they're going for around $75 used. I still have all four unwrapped copies.

But you shouldn't bank on them necessarily continuing to appreciate, or even maintaining their current value. I remember I had a Giorgio Moroder LP which in the late '80s I was informed was worth up to £200 (somebody else offered me about £100 for it a few years later but I refused). Come 1999 and I decided it was time to cash in, but its value had dropped to virtually nothing. Similarly with Library music LPs, which hit a price peak about five years ago but are now worth only a fraction of that.

Friend's son had a signed first-500 Harry Potter (his godfather got hold of it for him) and sold it on eBay for stupid ridiculous amounts of money.

-- suzy, Saturday, 7 June 2008 15:49 (Yesterday) Link

My sis in law used to work in a bookshop and they had this obscure children's author in to do a signing and so she's got a couple of Harry Potter's with a rather neat inscription from JK Rowling. She also got a signed first edition of the Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson for my son who was four at the time, it's currently hidden safely away.

Best I've made on ebay was £320 for a Moonglows single which I got in a box lot at an auction for a few quid. If it had been in mint condition could've went for four figures.

Recently picked up a load of rare first editions at the same auction for a few pounds a copy including War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, Good Soldier Schweik, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and several others. Going to hang onto them until I need the cash.

xpost: dubmill - Noted. I check in on the going rate from time to time and, especially after the advent of web-trading, the going rate has steadily gone up as the exchanged copies become fewer and fewer. Plus the Spacemen/Spectrum/Spiritualized camp has enjoyed a cult following that has been especially resilient to trends, and has only grown larger over the years. The Spacemen legacy seems to be falling into the same niche as The Velvets & Big Star (for example) before them, and I don't really see the record depreciating in value. In fact, just the opposite..

As for your Moroder LP, you should have held out for the recent electro/HI-NRG revival & you almost certainly could have cashed in. Everything that goes around..

found a drum machine (sequential circuits drumtraks) in original box etc at a car boot sale for £20, sold it for £300 on ebay. found that tvgohome book for £2 last year, that went for about £40. what else? oh yeh sold a rare library LP to DJ Q Bert for many $$$!