50p? 50P??? Is that all I'm worth?

[SolidGoldBrass]

A friend alerted me to the fact that a copy of my second novel is up on Ebay. For 50p. It's a signed copy, as well. WIBU to bid for it purely so I can hunt the seller down and slap the ungrateful bastard?

50p. Bastard. S/he will regret it when the new novel is out and selling billions of copies and pissing all over EL James and everyone is gagging to pay vast amounts of money for my shopping list...

Solid if jt ks that old then 50p is probably more than it sold for when it was new

If it is.....

It means you're nearly as good as Tolstoy.

My copy of War and Peace cost me 99p new.

It went for about a fiver when it was new. I remember going into bookshops, seeking it out and quietly putting it on top of rival author's works. And counting the copies each time to see if any had been sold...

Oooh - are you Josie Lloyd or Claudia whatshername or Susan Oudot???

DP has a book out at the minute, I have become obsessed with monitoring it's Amazon rating. I understand your pain.

4995 at the minute. Was 3665 earlier....

Do authors sign piles of books to make sure the shop can't return them, or did I imagine being told that? Obviously not inyourcase SGB.

I would love sneaking into bookshops to sign my own book whilst it's still on the shelf! Author John Green is notorious for this! Did you ever do this OP?

Oh dear! YANBU

Haven't you already been paid when they bought it full price? You should sue her for selling it and profiteering from you without your permission. lol

You could try dying.
It would raise the price very quickly.

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Ok there are only 4 books on at 50p, only 2 of them Are signed. One is a biography and you say it's a novel, so by my powers of deduction, I know who you are!!!

I wonder what the royalty payment on the initial sale was - guess no where near the retail price.

Authors get zero from second hand sales, guess there is nothing that can be done about that. Suppose it's better than the book being pulped and used to make a cardboard box.

there are hundreds of books on at 50p - I thought that sounded a bit odd!

OP are you Mary Roach who wrote Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers?

:o

Yes but if you add signed to the search. I may be way of though as a google of the author reveals she has a whole series of books.

But you made me log on to ebay to find I'd won my little lego cave woman complete with club :o

Aha ! Found the bugger !

Glaikit, hah, you are WRONG as I have not written a series . SPB, not Mary Roach either, though I have read her other book and it's fascinating.

Redhot, that one isn't signed by the author though according to the description. And unless Sgb is jermaine Jackson or a madonna impersonator it not that one!!

I want to know!!!!!! I'll buy it from legitimate source if you tell us!

OK then I can only assume you are William Shakespeare, as my 50p books search brought up a load of those. I knew he was a woman.

Hang on a minute - this was in my "signed" search - WHO are these books signed by, exactly??

I officially give up - I'd be a dreadful stalker :o I do want to know who has signed Midsummer Night's Dream, that's on ebay for 50p though!

I'll pay £1.53. Let us know who you are and we can bid!