Half Price Books Hates Me

Posted March 14th @ 11:18 am by caleb

I took in 10 books today to sell. The combined retail value of these books is well over $200, probably closer to $300. One of them still carries the $76.00 sticker price. When I heard the loud speaker call out my name I was full of excitement. My offer was ready. I thought, “How much will I get? I could really use $50 in my pocket!”

“Two dollars, sir”, from the man behind the counter. I think he probably began to explain why but the message was lost in my growing desire to climb over the counter.

“Total?”, I asked. He quickly confirmed and I made the walk of shame out of the store with the same number of books that I had entered with.

2 Comments

  1. debra
    March 14, 2008

    $2 didn’t even cover your gas to get there….

    wow, that is crazy!

  2. John Strunk
    March 16, 2008

    You should have tried to SA Fun that stuff. I may be interested in the books what were they? Oh and don’t forget, if you take them to the bathroom, it drops the value, maby that is why they were only 2 bucks total ;)

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