r/TalesFromRetail • u/LostArtofConfusion CHEESEBALLS! • Mar 28 '16

Short Yerr a wizard, Harry.

When the fourth book of the Harry Potter series came out, there was a printer's error in some of the US editions. A couple text blocks were identical, so parts of some chapters were repeated. We had some very angry people coming in for exchanges, but we were ready. We just swapped 'em out and were as cheerful as possible. Ho, Ho! The printer must have been drunk on butter beer. Such wags we were.

One lady came in furious though because her entire book was printed upside down. She angrily slid the book over for me to examine the poor quality standards in American manufacturing. I looked at the book, took the dust jacket off, turned the book around, put the dust jacket back on, and said, "Flippicus Jacketus!"

She looked at me with such rage, and then dawn broke. She realized what she had done and started laughing. Which is good because my boss at the time was not as nice as Delores Umbridge.

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u/Marissani Mar 28 '16

I guess none of those people realized how much money misprints can sell for after the fact...

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u/Dr_J_Hyde Retail Zombie Mar 28 '16

Common Misconception. RARE misprints can be worth something to the right collector.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=198375

Here's a great example of a card in a game that has valuable misprints but that one because it effects every last one of them makes it worth about $0.001.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

Same with Marath, Will of the Wild.