Here's one.
I know it was Android and that is.
Right, this has been priced a while.
It's been unearthed.
It wouldn't have been.
Right, but somebody has put £3 on their book.
Right?
Why is it £3?
Why are you charging £3 for it?
That might have happened after the pricing.
Right, there's nothing... it is a vintage book, but it's damaged.
So there's no way that that should have had a £3 sticker on it.
And it's £3 please, not £3 thanks.
I know, don't I?
I know you're writing.
You're satan.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, does it?
You know, the customer's like, well why am I paying £3 for this damaged book?
You know, whereas they can come over to my box.
My books are a pest.
And they can go, oh, oh, jungle book, jungle book, yeah.
Oh, £10.
Why is it £10?
First American edition.
£10, please.
Oh, it's the first edition.
Oh, yeah, so it's not £10, madam.
It's actually £5 because we're on half price for 2026.
Oh, that's brilliant.
That's absolutely brilliant.
That is, I will, I shall, I should buy that for my grandson.
And I shall read it to him until he's old enough to take care of the book himself.
But this is what I'm trying to say, is that when you go around pricing stuff willy-nilly or doing stuff willy-nilly, right, that it's damaging our business, it's damaging our reputation because look at what you've done.
Yeah, like it don't make sense.
One is a pound, one is 50p.
Right, now this, 50p, now this might be a first edition.
I've had a few of these.
Getting a lot of the children's books first editions now.
Let's have a look.
First edition.
50p!
Oh, I'll have to kill him, will I?
I'll have to kill him.
You're looking at 25 to 30 quid for that, because it's a first edition.
Those Disney ones, to be honest, I think I've underpriced them, to be honest.
But, you know, it's nice for you to have a first edition Disney book as well, isn't it?
You know, put a reasonable affordable price of five pounds.
You know, if you don't want one of them, we might have some 50p books.
I know I had children's books sure in a bag somewhere, but they were all vintage.
But they are the other books now you will need to look at.
If you've got those books in your attic, there we are, look.
1992 vintage copy.
So the person will come along and they'll go, Why is that £3?
Well, because A, I've had to clean it.
B, it's a vintage copy, so it'll be £1.50.
Oh, that's a bit damaged.
Yeah, it's damaged.
Shouldn't be £1.50.
Right, so that's got to come off.
See, everybody makes mistakes.
But the more important thing is, we learn from them, don't we?
We learn from them when we go forward.
Soak that off now.
Just soak my own label off.
Right.
I'll have to go through them, I think.
I thought we'd done Blackwood's books.
Dude, this is so annoying though, because it's like, you know, this job can be done.
Somebody needs to be trained how to do this job.
You know, all the books need to be cleaned.
Because the children's books are one of the worst things that come in stinking dirty.
You know.
They really are.
Comics.
They go.
Comics go.
We'll take comics, guys, you'll be surprised.
But like, look at that.
Look at the state on that.
And someone's just gone around with my labels and stuck it on.
That should have been cleaned off.
That's a mess.
I would have expected something like that to be cleaned off.
Right, and somebody's gone around with my labels, pricing the books, and it's not on the left-hand side.
Pricing needs to be on the left.
And, you know, some of these books are from down Big Riska.
You know, they've been kicking around for a while, but I thought we'd sorted them in backwards.
And another thing I've done is, if we go like old-fashioned pop-up books now, even if they're just basic vintage, I've been sealing them so they don't get damaged with a bit of tape.
You know, here's another one.
Puddle Lane.
You know, this is probably a collectible one.
These go for anything from first edition.
They go from anything from 15 quid up.
That's the first edition.
See, it's...
You know, this is why I say to volunteers, don't put stuff out, because you don't know what you're looking for.
You don't know what you're doing.
Your job... Oh, that's free because it's damaged.
Look, that's fine, isn't it?
Go to the front.
But you don't know what you're looking for, and you're damaging our reputation and our business.
Like, I mean, that one even even got a pound sign.
And what did I see earlier?
That had about...
Didn't even look like a pound sign.
It looked like a yen.
Somebody had written a yen on it.
Like, I wouldn't expect that to be scribbled over.
Peter Pan, 1993.
That's me, that is, right?
And it probably is.
It's from 1993.
So it'd be 150.
Yeah.
And then we've got this one.
This is when we first started doing the pricing.
But you need to... we need to tell them why.
Like, that one's been done.
But there's quite a few new that are still a mess and need to be checked, you know?
Because we have to do the right thing by the baby bank.
And this first edition book, we'll get anything from 20 to 30 quid for that.
Easy, right?
And that's the right thing to do, isn't it?
It's come in.
It's a collectible item.
The right thing to do is ring fence it.
Not sponsored by Pepsi Mac.
Should be.
It is, Danielle, with this cupboard.
Cabin of a rocking chair he's picking up.
Where is he?
But it's the right thing to do, isn't it?
You go through it and you go, right, that's worth the money.
That isn't.
Everything needs to be checked.
Every single item.
You can't just have one bag of clothes and say they're all ten pound.
You have to go through it.
And this is how we would expect you to look at it.
And if you were working the children's books and you come across this pile this is what I would expect my volunteers to do and say... Oh, well that's a bit...
It's got a bit of Jane Wooden like that scruffy label on there.
I'll peel that off while I'm standing here.
This is what I would expect you to do.
So I think it's important that we make the videos now so that people are fully aware of what we're expecting.
They don't sell so well.
Now the little address books.
Used to have those all the time, didn't they?
Biff and Chip will sell.
That's an old one in there.
Donna Cooper!
First published.
Revised.
This is the third.
So it is a collectible one but obviously we've got more collectible box than this one and somebody's written in this one with their name.
So we wouldn't put that one up for millions because it's not worth millions.
But I would expect everything to be checked.
You know, or if you would come across that Mark Suspenser's coat and it had a price label on it for 60 pound.
I would expect you to challenge that.
Take it to your line manager like your volunteer manager.
Yeah, and say, mmm, don't know if I'd pay 30 for that.
What do you think?
And if they're not sure they'll say, what do you think of this Jane?
And I say, oh no, take it off.
Yeah, you know, but look, somebody didn't check the pockets either.
Always check the pockets because I bought a fur jacket once from a charity shop.
Pound.
They were all reduced to a pound.
And when I went home and tried it on, put my hand in the pocket, it was ten pound note!
