Manuscripts on ebay

mjp

mjp

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I'll never understand the bukowski manuscript market. At least on ebay. This manuscript sold for $455, while this one went unsold at $550.

The manuscript that sold is a 1986 xerox, and the unsold manuscript is an old carbon from 1971. You rarely see anything that early on ebay anymore (it has been relisted here for $450).

I found the same kind of unpredictability when I was selling manuscripts...the thing that you think is an absolute gem gets no interest, and something you threw up there hoping to get a minimal amount for will be bid up way beyond (what you thought was) its value.

Ah well. Ten years ago these things were $30 - $60, but ebay changed all that.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Heh, I've paid more than that, but not for one manuscript. Prices have gone up ten to fifteen times what they were when I was buying.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
I think all the manuscripts I've owned are already in the manuscripts section. Most everything that's crossed my path ends up on the site. Or it's in a directory somewhere waiting to go on the site.
 
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