Sell your used Ferozsons books, music & hobbie in Islamabad
Who buys used Ferozsons books, music & hobbies in Islamabad?
What a Ferozsons dictionary fetches depends on which one it is, so the title page matters more than the cover. A comprehensive Urdu volume in a sound case is the easy sale; a student edition or an unidentifiable printing is not. Photograph the title page, the spine and the page edges, and say whether the binding is the original one.
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Made or assembled in Pakistan
Spares are widely stocked locally and most technicians in the twin cities have worked on these, so common faults are usually economic to repair.
Ferozsons prints locally and its principal dictionaries stay in print, so a damaged copy competes with a fresh one in any bookshop in either city, and generally only the thick comprehensive volume repays a rebind. Binders in the older book markets of Rawalpindi and Islamabad do that work, and it is the only repair a used book has available to it.
What your Ferozsons books, music & hobbie is worth
Condition decides most of it, but these are the brand-specific things that move an offer up or down.
- The comprehensive Feroz-ul-Lughat holds value better than the student and pocket editions, because the people who go looking for it — translators, Urdu teachers, serious students — need the full scope and will not accept an abridgement.
- Because Ferozsons keeps its dictionaries in print, a used copy is priced against a new one on a shelf a street away, so physical condition carries more weight here than the age of the printing does.
- A copy that cannot be identified from its title page loses value, since the buyer cannot tell which of the several Lughats, or whose printing, is being offered.
- Rebound copies sit below originals, because the rebind usually takes the publisher's case and often the title page with it, and those are what a buyer checks the edition against.
When we can only offer parts value
- Musty, damp or mould-spotted books, because the smell and the spores travel through a whole box.
- A game, puzzle or model kit missing pieces for a title that is out of production.
- Discs whose reflective layer has failed, and cassettes with tape that has been chewed, snapped or crinkled.
- Fungus inside binocular or telescope optics, seen as a spidery web against the light, since it etches the coatings and spreads to whatever is stored with it.
What raises the price on any books, music & hobbie
Brand aside, these move every offer — the books, music & hobbies page has the rest.
- Titles with a live audience hold value, such as set texts, exam preparation series, children's readers and popular fiction, while unmatched single volumes of general non-fiction move slowly.
- Complete runs matter: a full series, a boxed set with its slipcase, or a game with every piece and its rules sheet.
- Clean text is worth more than annotated text, and a name, dedication or heavy highlighting cannot be undone.
- Recorded media keeps more of its value with the case, sleeve and booklet than as a loose disc in a wallet, and a box set needs every disc present.
- Hobby equipment keeps more of its value when the original box, manual, charger and small tools are still with it.
Selling a Ferozsons books, music & hobbie — questions
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