Unscrupulous Dealers and Price Gouging in Seattle?

On Mar 3, 9:24 am, "Mr. E." wrote:
On Mar 3, 11:52 am, wrote:

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Thanks for promoting my Tom Swift site!

Tom Swift is the stupidest, most trivial, worthless crap that paper
was ever wasted on. Anyone who would have the slightest interest in
it, (needless to say a full blown obsession) should be euthanised and
put out of their own misery.

On Mar 3, 9:26 am, "Mr. E." wrote:
On Mar 3, 12:10 pm, "seattle_bookseller"

wrote:
SEATTLE_BOOKSELLER does not do business on blogs. We never posted on
any blog whatsoever, anywhere. We did not discuss any book with you
or anyone else on any blog. Can you link to this? No, you can't.
You have admitted your lies here, once again.

Hey B.O. Plenty - better go back to your remedial reading class,
nothing was ever mentioned about a blog.
Poor old stinky, his customers hate him and now everyone knows he's
almost illiterate.
Aren't you sorry you came here now?


I would not expect a stale and sorry usenet Troll like you to even be
aware that

"in particular, you can write comments in Livejournal communities. "

that Livejournal is a major blog site where the lying David
Schlesinger now claims his fictional slander is substantiated - of
course in deleted posts there. His left foot is now firmly wedged in
his toothless old trap. Where you prefer to place your digits, I don't
even want to remotely contemplate ; but it is obvious you keep at
least 8 of them there in total darkness most of the day and night.

On Mar 3, 9:32 am, "seattle_bookseller"
wrote:

"in particular, you can write comments in Livejournal communities. "

that Livejournal is a major blog site where the lying David
Schlesinger now claims his fictional slander is substantiated - of
course in deleted posts there. His left foot is now firmly wedged in
his toothless old trap. Where you prefer to place your digits, I don't
even want to remotely contemplate ; but it is obvious you keep at
least 8 of them there in total darkness most of the day and night.

Back to the same old tricks, eh, JASON CHRISTOPHER HUGHES aka LUIS M.
ARSUPIAL?

Same old anal fixations, same old scatological responses when you're
cornered like the squealing little rat you are, same old drooling
attempts at piling lie upon lie upon lie upon lie. Next stop,
allegations of child molestation or drug abuse or SATANISM or some
such slanderous nonsense. Must be terrible to suffer from such a lack
of imagination. Keep on lying, though.

No one's fooled, Chris-py, not even you.

Scot, does anyone moderate this NG?

Give 'stonemirror' aka David Schlesinger a little rope and he will
prove magnificently
(as he has above) that he is a stalker, a criminal harassser, a liar
and a sociopathic scumbag. All of this material will be soon brought
to the attention of his current employer. He started this thread
claiming he knew Seattle Bookseller only through
a single email concerning a specific book for sale. Now he pours
forth his vicious stalker diatribe, on tap as it were.
There is no better and final proof that this entire thread was
started with a lie made by a psychopathic stalker, not any legitimate
customer of books.

He had no business starting such a thread here in the first place.

On Mar 3, 9:10 am, "seattle_bookseller"
wrote:

SEATTLE_BOOKSELLER does not do business on blogs.

With those people skills, I'm astounded you do business anyplace. I
guess you don't, in fact, do business in the state of Texas any more,
eh, (ex-)"texas_bookseller"...? I suppose the post office box at the
Mailboxes, Etc. on Guadalupe Street was getting a little cramped. Did
you move to the next bigger size when you started camping out in the
University Photo & Mail up in Seattle following your sudden relocation
from Austin...?

You have admitted your lies here, once again.

You really do have trouble with the English language, don't you? Go
back and try to sound out the big words in the entry I wrote earlier,
see whether you might be able to make better sense of it. In the
meantime, feel free to keep on demonstrating that you're every bit the
vituperative, loud-mouthed, unscrupulous asshole that I've said you
are...

On Feb 10, 7:18 am, "Stone Mirror (the Great and Terrible)"
wrote:
I own a pristine copy of a volume titled "The Picatrix", published by
Ourobouros Press in 2001 in a limited edition of 1000 copies (mine is
#331). I'm doing an appraisal of the current value of this book, so I
searched Bookfinder to see what was listed there.

There are several copies listed, ranging in price from a low of $204
to a high of over $500 (the latter from a Seattle brick and mortar
store for a copy with a scuff on the cover!) One of the outliers,
pricing a copy at $430, was an outfit called "seattle_bookseller". I
wrote and asked why the price was so high, and got an amazingly
vituperative and abusive response, stating that this "WAS HOW THE RARE
BOOK BUSINESS WORKED" and that I "NEED A COURSE IN REMEDIAL ECONOMICS"
and so on.

I was a little surprised at this, but a little research turned up the
even more surprising information that this seller is one "Luis M.
Arsupial", the same person who was doing business (kinda) as
"texas_bookseller" up until about six months ago, and who previously
created a huge stink in this group over some questionable
transactions!

This kind of pricing seems like nothing more than gouging to me. I
could buy two copies of this book for what this yoyo is asking for it.
I can only assume that he's doing business on a basis of relying on
his customers being ignorant and not doing their research. Based on
the listings on Bookfinder, I'd estimate the value of this book at
$225 to $250, certainly nowhere close to $430.

Is this a usual practice? Do a lot of booksellers price their wares in
the hopes that their buyers will be too stupid to know that they're
being asked to pay twice what a book is worth?

(Apparently this "Luis M. Arsupial"--"marsupial"...?--was once known
as "Jason Christopher Hughes", a name which turns up a wide variety of
odd and amazing postings on USENET...)

Give 'stonemirror' aka David Schlesinger a little rope and he will
prove magnificently
(as he has above) that he is a stalker, a criminal harasser, a liar
and a sociopathic scumbag. All of this material will be soon brought
to the attention of his current employer. He started this thread
claiming he knew Seattle Bookseller only through
a single email concerning a specific book for sale. Now he pours
forth his vicious stalker diatribe, on tap as it were. And very
predictably.
There is no better and final proof that this entire thread was
started with a lie made by a psychopathic stalker, not any legitimate
customer of books.

He had no business starting such a thread here in the first place.
It is totally and completely off topic.

On Mar 2, 2:44 pm, "RWF" wrote:
On Mar 2, 5:34 pm, "seattle_bookseller"
wrote:

You never sent me an email. I have never communicated with you about
the 'Picatrix' or for that matter ANY other book. Post the email with
headers, if you have it. But you don't, as its entirely fictional.
Who is dishonest here? You are dishonest, David Schlesinger!

Hey B.O. Plenty, I hate to tell you this but your credibility in this
groups is, shall we say, not too good!

Give 'stonemirror' aka David Schlesinger a little rope and he will
prove magnificently
(as he has above) that he is a stalker, a criminal harassser, a liar
and a sociopathic scumbag. All of this material will be soon brought
to the attention of his current employer. He started this thread
claiming he knew Seattle Bookseller only through
a single email concerning a specific book for sale. Now he pours
forth his vicious stalker diatribe, on tap as it were.
There is no better and final proof that this entire thread was
started with a lie made by a psychopathic stalker, not any legitimate
customer of books.

He had no business starting such a thread here in the first place.

On Feb 10, 10:46 am, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:
"Stone Mirror (the Great and Terrible)" wrote in
ooglegroups.com...

Based on
the listings on Bookfinder, I'd estimate the value of this book at
$225 to $250, certainly nowhere close to $430.

You may have a mistaken apprehension of the retail
market for genuinely rare books. In comparison with
other goods (e.g. computers, e.g. mass-produced new
books) vendors cannot set prices in order to undercut
the competition (because these items are so scarce
that price competition seldom works.) By contrast,
haggling (bargaining) over price may be as common
as in some other markets (e.g. automobiles.)

We still do not know why you did not buy a couple
of copies at $250 and offer to sell them to this dealer
at $350.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Give 'stonemirror' aka David Schlesinger a little rope and he will
prove magnificently
(as he has above) that he is a stalker, a criminal harasser, a liar
and a sociopathic scumbag. All of this material will be soon brought
to the attention of his current employer. He started this thread
claiming he knew Seattle Bookseller only through
a single email concerning a specific book for sale. Now he pours
forth his vicious stalker diatribe, on tap as it were.
There is no better and final proof that this entire thread was
started with a lie made by a psychopathic stalker, not any legitimate
customer of books.

He had no business starting such a thread here in the first place.

On Mar 3, 10:16 am, "seattle_bookseller"
wrote:
Scot, does anyone moderate this NG?

No LJ Abuse team to go whimpering to here, I'm afraid, JASON
CHRISTOPHER HUGHES aka LUIS M/ ARSUPIAL.

The magic of the Internet.

Hey, didja hear that they revealed some serious deficiencies and
exploits around Onion Routers? Think you should be worrying...?