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Old March 2nd 07, 04:45 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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Default Unscrupulous Dealers and Price Gouging in Seattle?

On Feb 10, 9:43 am, "Stone Mirror (the Great and Terrible)"
wrote:
On Feb 10, 8:40 am, "my-wings" wrote:

"Stone Mirror (the Great and Terrible)" wrote in
ooglegroups.com...


And that, my friend, is why serious collectors often support specific
sellers over a period of years, even if it means they pay a small premium in
the pricing over what the same titles in the same condition would bring in
other venues. They do it because they know they can trust the seller to
accurately describe the books, to stand behind their products, and to price
fairly, even if not at the cheapest price.


Thanks for your comments! Especially when buying rare stuff, having an
honest dealer is critical. The feedback for "seattle_bookseller" on
Amazon, at

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller...980-6174318?ie...

seems to support the notion that this business is best avoided.
Negative feedback is 8% in just the last month, and there have been
complaints about the condition of books being seriously misrepresented
(this was the issue that caused the fracas with this person last
time), non-delivery, delivery of less than was purchased (e.g. one
volume out of ten, ten out of twelve, etc.)


The thinly veiled attempt to slander and harm my business that started
this thread is the work of one David Shlesinger, a stalker and nutjob
from Santa Cruz, CA and a fired employee of Palmsource, Inc.
Seattle_Bookseller never contacted him in any form - not by email,
phone, post etc. He is lying. He consistently mistakes other people
for his nemesis, this "Jason Christopher Hughes" aka "Marsupial". I
would like to see him reproduce any kind of email from my business,
with headers from yahoo - which is the yahoo account I pay for,
. This communication does not exist. It
appears that the comments he references came from anonymous posts on
some blog. My amazon.com feedback is 94% + for 365 days. This is the
equal of or better than most of the large retailers on amazon.com. My
ebay feedback for the same customer base and same policies is 99.6%
positive. I do not live in or operate out of Texas. You are being
misled by a deranged and vicious con artist with a most definite ax to
grind that has nothing at all to do with books. And it has nothing to
do with myself, or Seattle_Bookseller. This thread is a slime job,
and it is part of an on going harassment/stalking attempt on the part
of Mr. Schlesinger. My copies of 'Picatrix' are indeed truly brand new
as I got them directly from the publisher. They have not so much as
been opened! Schlesinger never, ever bought anything from me. He has
no right to come and slander my business. Would you like to see how
incredibly childish, vile and mentally unbalanced the 59 year old
David Schelsinger is?

Here is one of his stalking websites, in all its puerile glory:

http://www.shugendo.org/marsupial/index.htm

Schlesinger maintains several of these sites, for the many people he
is criminally harassing.

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