We went to Canterbury last Thursday as usual quite a lot of the time was spent looking in the bookshops and charity shops for books to sell in the bookshop. This is often just to top up things we are short of, for instance at the moment we are completely out of P G Woodhouse books. This wasn’t a very successful mission mainly because the books in Canterbury, even in the charity shops, were pretty much all more expensive than we would sell them for.I find it odd in the current economic downturn that prices there seem to be rising. I also noticed that Canterbury has more empty shops than usual, as with most places now I am finding that a lot of what I would call proper shops are closing to be replaced by cafés and shops offering services rather than actual goods.
Michael, the same thing is happening with coins. Bulk lots are going for ridiculous prices at auction and on ebay even current circulation euro coins are selling for more than their face value. Strange?
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