Thanks, Dolores. We can build using those web sites into our practices. Regarding the price in the item, two different patrons could be checking out the same title, and if Patron-A loses his copy, he only pays $25, while Patron-B may have to pay $100 (if that is how much we paid for the used copy). It just doesn’t seem right – even though I don’t see a way around this. I am also afraid of getting ex-library used copies. I have heard that sellers don’t describe the materials very well in some cases. It is going to be a lot of headache for us. These are popular materials, not scholarly resources that someone absolutely has to have. It could be a large print edition of a romance novel from the 70s, for example.
Thanks for writing,
Vicki
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Hi Vicki,
My previous experience has been that I start with bookfinder.com<http://bookfinder.com/>, http://www.bookfinder.com/, and addall.com<http://addall.com/>, http://www.addall.com/, the reason being that these interfaces will search most if not all out of print vendors online so you can compare prices in one place. Usually for used books it's safer not to accept anything less than "good condition." I'm not sure what you meant about entering prices, but I think it's good to enter the price just for record keeping. If these are books to fill holds then I would use the actual cost of the used book and probably reflect shipping cost in the record as well. I hope this is helpful.
Dolores
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Hello -
I was wondering if anyone could share any guidelines you have created for the purchase of used/out of print materials. Do you have specific guidelines for the condition of the material and maximum price you will pay (relative to the item's original retail price)? Do you put the new purchase price in the item record, so that the patron pays the full cost of acquiring that item (even if it is quite a bit more than the title originally cost when it was in print)? We will be purchasing additional copies to fill holds, so in all cases, there is at least one copy already circulating in the system.
Thank you!
Vicki
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