GW 'pulling out' Cookbooks

[thriftyinkentucky]

Hi everyone, I am new to the boards....my name is Cheryl from Louisville, KY and I love to thrift!

I hope you don't mind if I start with a Pet Peeve. I have noticed that several of the GW's around our city are starting to 'pull out' cookbooks from the bins and placing them on a separate area and charging, IMO, too much for an individual cookbook. Normally all books are fifty cents. They are also starting to do this more and more with other books, too. Today I noticed one of my fave GW's pulled out some childrens books and put them in the 'glass case' and charged ridiculous prices for each of them. No thanks!

Okay done with my Pet Peeve!

[mlogan]

Wow, i need to get to Louisville!  I live in the memphis area and they charge 2.99 and 3.99 for most books including cookbooks or more unless its a children's book and then its 99 cents.   I figure most times i'm paying ebay prices w/o the shipping.  Sorry they are raising the prices on you...

[mccoysnina]

I've noticed my local thrift is starting to do sometihng like that.  Good thing for me they are doing it with the "celebrity" cookbooks that I am not as interested in.  I like the offbeat ones, like local charities or older cbooks.  Those are still pretty cheap.
Jeannie

[SplashsMom]

I am still finding it all depends upon who is in the back room the day the books come in. You will see copies of the same books with different prices, and not in really varying condition.
For a while cookbooks were higher priced, but now they are lumped in with the others.  In the past 3 months all book prices have gone up here from 50 cents each to closer to $2,  with special ones edging up to the $5 mark.  I have decided to get books at garage sales unless they are rare.

[tsmanager]

Tampa Goodwill's do the same thing with their cook books. they are all marked up. My store which will be open a year in March WOOooooooo HOO ,charges 10% of the cover price for all books. So if that hardcover is 24.99 it will cost you 2.49 at my store.  If it doesn't have an orginal price we just guess depending on the size and age of the book anywhere from 20 cents to $2.