It seems worse than the "I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge" scam, because, at least in that case, you're trying to buy something valuable. Here, you're trying to pay for the rights for some people to say you own something? Madness.
If you don't then you have no credible ability to sell it, if you do... then maybe I'm interested.
Just send me the money. I'll create a row in a sqlite database specifying you own the NFT, burn that on to a read only CD and mail it to you!
* - ALittleLight
In general items sold by their original authors will be more valuable (and you can already see evidence of this being wrong or right on the network), so this seems like a fine way of going about it.
That's not "the market", that's sunk cost fallacy. If I buy a painting in a jumble sale for £5 and a reputable auctioneer confirms it's a genuine Picasso original, collectors will be willing to pay millions for it. If I spend £1m on a print or a painting by my sister, the auctioneer will still tell me none of their collectors are interested.
Or to look more closely at your example, the resale values of a mint condition Harry Potter first edition bought for £10 and a Harry Potter first edition bought for £30k are exactly the same and exactly the same collectors and auctioneers will deal with it, precisely because assets are identical and the market cares about how collectible the asset is rather than its individual historic price. (The market price of a first edition owned by Rowling herself is also the same, but she can change that pretty easily with a signature to make it more 'special' than other first editions)
Before there were walled gardens of this. Skins in something like CSGO being a good example, you could have a very valuable skin in CSGO but valve determines whether you own it or not and have the right to sell it. With NFT there's no central authority that says you have the right to sell something, you just do...
I honestly think this is a pretty powerful thing, I'm interested to see where it goes.