Book scouts

I have read about them, but this is the first time I have dealt with one...

A fellow called yesterday, after we had had some a-mail exchanges. In a big
eastern city, he scouts books and thought he could help find some of the
titles I am after.

The set-up goes like this:

1. If he finds a book I want, I pay his price or pass.
2. He has a list of mine to work from.
3. If I find books I want on ABEbooks, Alibris, Amazon etc formteh United
states, I can order them, get them sent to him, and he will box them and
send them to me in a group, to save shipping (to northern Canada, a book
that costs me $1 gets an additional shipping cost of $6. I need to cut that
back and bulk will do that)
4. I need to avoid UPS Land service. Those ----- take it thorough customs
if it is shipped this way and then charge regardless of value, a further $30
customs brokerage fee.
5. It seems one in ten or less are looked at by customs. No duty payable,
but sales tax and such. They also charge a user fee when this happens,
adding $7 to the cost of a $1 book!!! Pirates!!!
6. To a limit I set, if I wish he will buy from other dealers - i.e. Amazon
and get the books shipped to him, to be stored, boxed and shipped when
numbers warrant.

Several of the writers I am collecting are cheap. I can find a book for $1
to $5, but adding shipping, allowing for customs, brings the total per book
up far too high. I did try using friends, but the friends wanted to read
the books, and it seems so too did their friends. On average, that
arrangement took six months to get here, or more - not less.

Seems good. Anyone else go this way??

Hugs,
Willow

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