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July 2nd 06, 12:09 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
David Ames
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Odd non-response from dealer
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David Ames wrote:
I learned of a textbook used at a major university. Wondering about
the subject of the textbook, I searched bookfinder.com to seek a prior
edition and to consider whether I might want to enroll. I posted an
inquiry to an alibris.com dealer, using Alibris' form.
What I got back was not a response, but a request to post my query to
the dealer's website.
Doesn't Alibris forward my message plus the dealer's listing? Am I
really supposed to hunt up the listing all over again in order to
repeat my question?
David Ames
It is one thing to ask a
dealer about customery bookselling
matters, such as condtition, edition, etc.
But if you were talking about having the
seller tell you about the contents of a
textbook so you could "consider whether
[you] might want to enroll," you may have
been asking a wee bit too much. After
all, the person is a bookseller, not a
college counselor.
[Memo from the upstairs office.]
Rge request was to know exactly what, in addition to the text volume,
was being offered. There seemed to be a possible discrepancy. At any
rate, the bookseller's response was a form response, not a personalized
response:clearly inadequate. The dealer should have both his own
listing, plus my question on it, from Albris.
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