I didn't say Morecambe was or wasn't - I said I have no idea how many live there. I know its not a london.co.uk or manchester.co.uk but being North of the border I honestly have no idea what size of place it is, which would directly influence the value.
edit- ok I've just searched wiki, apparently it has 45k people living there. If I lived in Morecambe I'd
maybe consider it a £1k domain but that would be pushing it.
If you offered me londonstudent.co.uk and studentbooks.com for £1000 each I wouldn't take them. For me 99% of my sites are
seo plays, if I ran a student book shop then maybe that domain is worth more but to an average
seo guy its not even close. Personally I've bought way better domains for under £1000. I bought livefootball.net for about £1k, quickly and easily developed it and ranked it and recently turned down a mid 5 figure $ offer for the site. I honestly don't think I could easily do the same with the domains you are valuing in the same range. Live Football has search volume and is easy to monetize. Once you rank for "london student" what are you going to do with that traffic? What were those people searching for exactly?
Good luck with the domains, but it honestly sounds like you missed the boat by turning down offers that should have been accepted, imo.