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The French offer is divided by ten into two levels, and an advertisement for €500 can be reduced to two words: high amount, zero information.
Read article →Only one ad in eight carries a condition note, and the signed copy advertised commands the same price as the others.
Read article →27,619 French ads under €5, zero certified copies: at this budget we buy French periodicals, and the variable that counts is the poster.
Read article →A Strange album from 1975 with its attached poster is as claimed as an American booklet from 1962: the local market values what it has circulated.
Read article →200 ads out of 200 verified, and copies rated 1.5 at the top of the bracket: the condition ceases to be the main factor.
Read article →Two out of nine sellers distinguish the British edition from the American one on neighboring issues, and no ad declares a condition.
Read article →163 copies verified out of 200: the proportion is reversed, and the French market only offers 144 advertisements, several of which are unrelated.
Read article →A manufacturing defect that has become a reason for value, and a claim of unverifiable uniqueness: at this level, the object counts less than the transaction.
Read article →One verified copy in five, 663 advertisements for the entire section, and objects which are no longer booklets: the harbinger of the changeover.
Read article →After four levels of zero certified copies, sixteen appear here: the threshold is not a rule but a calculation.
Read article →An American booklet from 1972 at the same price as a booklet from last year: at this budget, seniority cannot yet be paid for.
Read article →A role reversal described in full in the advertisements, at two dollars sixteen: a reason that the market names without paying for it.
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