Record Price for W1P Book $682.79

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I am amazed that some two or more people bid against each other to drive the already outlandish starting bid of $599.99 price all the way up to the final winning bid of $682.79.

Question: has anyone ever seen Eddie Robin's Winning One Pocket sell for anywhere near this price? I haven't.

I saw $225 and $250 a couple of years ago on ebay, where it has sold for an average of $200 over the last couple of years. When Eddie Robin auctioned what he said was his very last new copy it sold for $277, a pretty stiff price but under the circumstances not unbelievable.

I have a buyer right now for my pristine set of autographed W1P and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. I would not ask for such a high price as $600-$700 for a single W1P, unless there were special circumstances. I had several offers for trades or for a cash sale at $300 for both books, delivered. No one came right out with ready cash to buy them at what I thought was a very fair price of $350 delivered for the set. Then these guys bidding on ebay, apparently clueless of AZB for-sale forum, bid near $700 for one book, when they could have bought both books for half that from me. Like new. Pristine. In original box covers. Grrrr says my greedy shadow person.

Maybe the auction being from Goodwill Books was the 'special circumstances', a donation of sorts.

Those books have some value, especially to a collector or one-pocket aficionado, but near $700 for one of them? Incredible and almost unbelievable. I hope the seller gets paid, because if the buyer is not making a donation, and wises up to the going price for W1P, he may skip out on payment.
 
Texdance said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Winning-One...s-/181581347387?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653

I am amazed that some two or more people bid against each other to drive the already outlandish starting bid of $599.99 price all the way up to the final winning bid of $682.79.

Question: has anyone ever seen Eddie Robin's Winning One Pocket sell for anywhere near this price? I haven't.

I saw $225 and $250 a couple of years ago on ebay, where it has sold for an average of $200 over the last couple of years. When Eddie Robin auctioned what he said was his very last new copy it sold for $277, a pretty stiff price but under the circumstances not unbelievable.

I have a buyer right now for my pristine set of autographed W1P and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. I would not ask for such a high price as $600-$700 for a single W1P, unless there were special circumstances. I had several offers for trades or for a cash sale at $300 for both books, delivered. No one came right out with ready cash to buy them at what I thought was a very fair price of $350 delivered for the set. Then these guys bidding on ebay, apparently clueless of AZB for-sale forum, bid near $700 for one book, when they could have bought both books for half that from me. Like new. Pristine. In original box covers. Grrrr says my greedy shadow person.

Maybe the auction being from Goodwill Books was the 'special circumstances', a donation of sorts.

Those books have some value, especially to a collector or one-pocket aficionado, but near $700 for one of them? Incredible and almost unbelievable. I hope the seller gets paid, because if the buyer is not making a donation, and wises up to the going price for W1P, he may skip out on payment.
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Im guessing this falls under 'special circumstances'


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I got my W1P from Weenie Beenie at his house in myrtle beach in the 80's.
He signed it to me then. I would never part with it as Bennie was an old friend.
I've seen 1 on ebay a number of years ago that had all the members signed.
That went for over 2k I believe. This 1 is just a used W1P in ok shape.
Makes no sense....ohhh well...a fool and his $$$$...lol
 
I have one of the LEATHER bound sets (both books) in PRISTINE condition.

I will consider offers. (It will be higher than the book posted by OP).

There were only 30 (?) or maybe 32 sets made.
There is a story to the one I have - but not to disclosed on the forum.

These are NOT the normal 'burgandy' colored (remember I am color blind) - but a very distinctive leather (brown/green????)

Guaranteed to be as described.

Mark Griffin
Markg@playcsipool.com
I can provide pictures to individuals - don't know how to post on AZB.

It might take a day or so for me to get back to anyone
 
Gosh, that's high. There is a very limited, numbered, lizard-skin-bound version of W1P and SMS that has sold for that much for a single volume. $600 for an "OK" condition W1P is the highest I've ever seen. But then someone is asking over $3000 for an ex-library copy with library markings and such. If you don't need to sell right away, one strategy is to put it up for 10 times the highest fair price and hope a fool shows up who doesn't know how to do on-line searches and really wants the book. I've seen people ask $150 for a Willie Hoppe book in a version that normally sells for $10 and the book is still in print. Let the buyer beware.
 
Mark Griffin said:
I have one of the LEATHER bound sets (both books) in PRISTINE condition.

I will consider offers. (It will be higher than the book posted by OP).

There were only 30 (?) or maybe 32 sets made.
There is a story to the one I have - but not to disclosed on the forum.

These are NOT the normal 'burgandy' colored (remember I am color blind) - but a very distinctive leather (brown/green????)

Guaranteed to be as described.

Mark Griffin
Markg@playcsipool.com
I can provide pictures to individuals - don't know how to post on AZB.

It might take a day or so for me to get back to anyone
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I think that must be the "lizard-skin" edition. Sort of a gold-brown cover?
 
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You are correct Bob.

Gold brown lizard. I think they were $1,000 a set at one time.

Mark Griffin
 
Texdance said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Winning-One...s-/181581347387?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653

I am amazed that some two or more people bid against each other to drive the already outlandish starting bid of $599.99 price all the way up to the final winning bid of $682.79.

Question: has anyone ever seen Eddie Robin's Winning One Pocket sell for anywhere near this price? I haven't.

I saw $225 and $250 a couple of years ago on ebay, where it has sold for an average of $200 over the last couple of years. When Eddie Robin auctioned what he said was his very last new copy it sold for $277, a pretty stiff price but under the circumstances not unbelievable.

I have a buyer right now for my pristine set of autographed W1P and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. I would not ask for such a high price as $600-$700 for a single W1P, unless there were special circumstances. I had several offers for trades or for a cash sale at $300 for both books, delivered. No one came right out with ready cash to buy them at what I thought was a very fair price of $350 delivered for the set. Then these guys bidding on ebay, apparently clueless of AZB for-sale forum, bid near $700 for one book, when they could have bought both books for half that from me. Like new. Pristine. In original box covers. Grrrr says my greedy shadow person.

Maybe the auction being from Goodwill Books was the 'special circumstances', a donation of sorts.

Those books have some value, especially to a collector or one-pocket aficionado, but near $700 for one of them? Incredible and almost unbelievable. I hope the seller gets paid, because if the buyer is not making a donation, and wises up to the going price for W1P, he may skip out on payment.
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i have seen a downloaded soft copy a year or two ago, i am sure it is available in the black market!
 
Texdance said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Winning-One...s-/181581347387?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653

I am amazed that some two or more people bid against each other to drive the already outlandish starting bid of $599.99 price all the way up to the final winning bid of $682.79.

Question: has anyone ever seen Eddie Robin's Winning One Pocket sell for anywhere near this price? I haven't.

I saw $225 and $250 a couple of years ago on ebay, where it has sold for an average of $200 over the last couple of years. When Eddie Robin auctioned what he said was his very last new copy it sold for $277, a pretty stiff price but under the circumstances not unbelievable.

I have a buyer right now for my pristine set of autographed W1P and Shots, Moves, and Strategies. I would not ask for such a high price as $600-$700 for a single W1P, unless there were special circumstances. I had several offers for trades or for a cash sale at $300 for both books, delivered. No one came right out with ready cash to buy them at what I thought was a very fair price of $350 delivered for the set. Then these guys bidding on ebay, apparently clueless of AZB for-sale forum, bid near $700 for one book, when they could have bought both books for half that from me. Like new. Pristine. In original box covers. Grrrr says my greedy shadow person.

Maybe the auction being from Goodwill Books was the 'special circumstances', a donation of sorts.

Those books have some value, especially to a collector or one-pocket aficionado, but near $700 for one of them? Incredible and almost unbelievable. I hope the seller gets paid, because if the buyer is not making a donation, and wises up to the going price for W1P, he may skip out on payment.
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I don't believe anybody paid that much for the WOP. They're running some kind of scam to drive up prices.

I have 3 of them and if I could get $350 for each I would probably sell them.

ONB
 
Old Nine Baller said:
I don't believe anybody paid that much for the WOP. They're running some kind of scam to drive up prices.

I have 3 of them and if I could get $350 for each I would probably sell them.

ONB
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I tend to agree with Old Nine Baller that some kind of price-jacking scam is going on with that W1P book.

I have advertised my pristine like-new set here on AZB, over on OnePocket.org, and on several Craigslist sites from Chicago to Dallas.

Just last week I finally some firm offers in the range of $300-$325 for my set of W1P and SMS. Only one offer came in at my full asking price of $350/set, but the potential buyer didn't have ready cash, and for reasons of my own I don't take paypall (I read the fine print in the Payppuke Terms of Service and was stupefied for a week).

Eddie Robin has been selling his copies of SMS on Ebay for $168 delivered, and included a valuable video stroke evaluation.

The ebay auction for his last copy of W1P Second Edition went up to $277, but in the year or two prior to that his ebay auctions for W1P alone were averaging about $200. He says he has been trying to keep the price of the books down as much as he can, and I believe him.

I am waiting on the funds to arrive (should be later today) for the two books I sold last week to an AZB member. I sold them for a price we both thought was reasonable. I am sticking to the deal I made - no need to backtrack just because some fool on ebay has more money than sense.
 
Texdance said:
I tend to agree with Old Nine Baller that some kind of price-jacking scam is going on with that W1P book.
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Yes, sometimes that happens, but it's hard to understand how it could be happening with a Goodwill auction. I think the charity would expect to get its money. Either it's an inside deal and no sale actually took place or maybe someone plans to take the cost as a donation and a write-off. The latter doesn't make much sense because you only save 30% on taxes if you're lucky.
 
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