Warning: That $35 'vintage' book cover was just a bad photocopy job

I bought this book from an online seller last week because the cover looked like a cool 70s sci-fi painting (you know, spaceships and weird planets). Turned out the whole cover was a blurry photocopy glued onto some beat up cardboard. Total waste of 35 bucks, plus shipping. The inside pages were just blank sheets, so it wasn't even a real book. Has anyone else gotten tricked by those cheap reprints on secondhand sites? I'm sticking to actual thrift stores from now on.

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grant1304mo ago

Reddit had a thread last month where a guy got a signed first edition that was just printed on a home printer.

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the_abby4mo ago

Right, because nothing says "vintage treasure hunt" like paying thirty five bucks for a glorified paperweight with some blurry spaceship on it. At least you got a cool cardboard box to use as a frisbee.

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