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When buying older books through the online auction sites, check out the price of the book before making a bid. Prices can be checked out through bibliofind.com, bookfinder.com, abebooks.com and other similar sources. Before I started doing this, I paid higher prices at the auction sites for several books than the online book dealers were charging.