Avon, CT
Overall: B-
Helpfulness of staff: C
Book condition: B
Book selection: B+
Value: B+
On Sunday we made the hour trek to Avon for their bag sale. The sale was held in a senior center and was decently well organized by genre. When we first arrived slightly after noon, the large book room was incredibly busy with shoppers, but began to empty out after an hour or so. Unfortunately there were no trade paperbacks at this sale, (we love trade paperback for their aesthetic appeal and relative compactness, when compared to hard covers) however, there were many hardcover novels, children’s books, and nonfiction. When I sat down to blog about this sale it took me a few minutes to remember it; that describes this sale in a nutshell. I was able to get some beautiful children’s books to donate to Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (http://www.irisct.org/) as well as some books to release on bookcrossing.com.
We also saw, a person who we imagine is a book dealer or used book store owner, scanning book bar codes!
This was probably a wonderful sale on Saturday before all of the books were picked over (but this is great news for fund raising).
After an uneventful morning we moved on to the Newington sale…
Newington, CT
Overall: D
Helpfulness of staff: C
Book condition: C+
Book selection: D+
Value: D
When we arrived in Newington I should have known what would be in store when we were asked to pay $5 for our bags (small, plastic, grocery store bags) upfront. I’ve begun to believe that any sale that asks you to pay for a bag upfront has something to hide. To their credit they will issue a full refund if you fail to find a book to place into your bag, but that certainly complicates the situation.
When we first came in we thought that the sale was limited to one small room crammed with hardcover general fiction, mystery and large print books. It took a happy accident to find an additional (much larger) room housing nonfiction, as well as a third room devoted entirely to children’s book. We ran into our bar-code scanning friend here as well, but we failed to purchase much. Olia found “Hannibal” from the Thomas Harris series, but that’s where the excitement ended.
The one good thing that came out of this book sale is that we will now be grading each sale, on an A-F, traditional academic scale, based on the following criteria:
Overall
Helpfulness of staff
Book condition
Book selection
Value
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