The Enid Blyton Society

Courtenay wrote: At least it's got free P&P.

I think they're taking the P&P.....

Wow, I have the award version bought on eBay for £3. I may just have to sell it!!

I bought the Award version from Revivalbooks on Ebay for £2.16(postage excluded) in November 2016!

Tony Summerfield wrote: I think remarks like 'grab it' are very unhelpful, as most of us don't belong to the MNO club (Money No Object)!!

Haha! I was thinking exactly the same!

Rob Houghton wrote:

Tony Summerfield wrote:I don't think that any of these Brockhampton picture books got reprinted so if they turn up they are bound to be first editions, so I am sure that this is the only printing of the story with Soper illustrations. Even the Award hardback version of this story doesn't turn up every day. When I originally got my copy I couldn't find it anywhere and I had to buy it from Award themselves!

Maybe so...but its still too expensive for what it is, in my opinion. If people weren't willing to pay such daft prices, then book prices would fall. I've seen 'At Seaside Cottage' go for as little as £25 on eBay. I know because I missed out, lol!

People will even pay similar prices for 'The Secret of the Old Mill'

Wish I'd seen 'At Seaside Cottage' for £25, I paid £137 for my copy back in May! Mind I suppose that was cheap compared to the one I saw last autumn that went for £286!!. I can see why it's so expensive though, it is really really hard to find a copy, I've only ever seen these 3 available, the one in the listing being the cheapest.

Blimey! We have some wealthy people on here.

I agree!

Then we have people who balk at paying £10 for a Famous Five book! A world of great contrasts!!

Better than the occasional sellers who charge triple (or even quadruple) figure prices for modern editions of Enid Blyton books (or for older copies in such dire condition they're not fit for anything but the compost heap)...

Moonraker wrote:Blimey! We have some wealthy people on here.

I wish! It's not really to do with wealth, more having to pay a certain price to get something as a one off. An item has a price and if you want the item badly enough you have to pay that price to get it. I wouldn't normally pay that much for one book, but this particular one is really difficult to find, it was a one off payment and I consider it well worth the cost to have a copy. I couldn't afford to pay that sort of money frequently for books, but for the odd one I'll happily make an exception. I see it as no different to someone paying more for a coin or painting or piece of pottery for their collection.

I'm just mean and always try to get 'something for nothing' lol.

I suppose that statement is true for some sellers as well. Rob...

Rob Houghton wrote:I'm just mean and always try to get 'something for nothing' lol.

Something for nothing is always nice! The way I see it is it's swings and roundabouts.If you get 10 cheap bargain books paying for one expensive one isn't so bad as what you lose in the pricery one you gain from the others so they sort of balance each other out in the end .