Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon

On Mar 25, 3:54 pm, "RF" wrote:
palmjob, you dried-out old ******, clearly your years of self-abuse
have driven you to the point of delusion.
You are the most kill-filed poster on the Usenet.
Everyone knows you're just a ****tard and an asshat to boot.
You flail wildly but you never hit the mark, you poor pathetic old
hemorrhoid.

Finnan, do you have any idea how pathetic
you look, flailing your wet-noodle puerilities
while desperately and vainly trying to project
your perverted fantasies on your tormentor?
In essence, you are simply another spiteful
spankard who lost one flame war too many
and has now convinced himself that spouting
aberrant rubbish into a public forum will
convince someone you are other than the
wailing, sore losing wimp everyone now
knows you to be. Sad.

[Memo from the upstairs office]

On Mar 26, 12:54 am, wrote:
On Mar 25, 3:54 pm, "RF" wrote:

palmjob, you dried-out old ******, clearly your years of self-abuse
have driven you to the point of delusion.
You are the most kill-filed poster on the Usenet.
Everyone knows you're just a ****tard and an asshat to boot.
You flail wildly but you never hit the mark, you poor pathetic old
hemorrhoid.

Finnan, do you have any idea how pathetic
you look, flailing your wet-noodle puerilities
while desperately and vainly trying to project
your perverted fantasies on your tormentor?
In essence, you are simply another spiteful
spankard who lost one flame war too many
and has now convinced himself that spouting
aberrant rubbish into a public forum will
convince someone you are other than the
wailing, sore losing wimp everyone now
knows you to be. Sad.

[Memo from the upstairs office]

Now, now, palmjob, we both know that it's you who have been being
sizzled and burned in our little exchanges. The world sees and laughs
at you for the mentally unstable, pompous ****tard that you are and,
other than bothering to poke a stick into your cage from time to time,
they want none of you and your oh-so-lame attemts at wit.
Now begone - back to yout "upstairs office" to commit, yet again, the
crime of Onan!

Nobody wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?



I only know it can be a boon to the buyer. Two months ago, my girlfriend
and I were touring Temecula. There was a bookstore there having a half
price sale. Everything was pretty fairly priced. The one exception was a
copy of "The Happy Bookers" It was full priced at $27.00. She said it
was on the Internet at full price. The book was probably VG with a G
dust jacket. She passed.

I checked "Addall" and non ex-lib were in a fairly pricey range 20 bucks
plus.

I don't know whether "Amazon" or "halfcom" had the books. The price was
50 cents plus shipping. The descriptions are terse as one would expect
at these rates.

I thought "I'll just get her a reading copy". Descriptions are not
paramount in these listings. I bought two in the hope that at least one
would be shaken but not stirred.

Both were VG+ to NF. They had dust jackets. The DJs were VG+.

We both got better books at half the price of the half priced copy.

Moral: Don't ask why, don't ask how, just ask how much.

In article ,
Ted Jones wrote:

Moral: Don't ask why, don't ask how, just ask how much.

And don't forget to ask IN ADVANCE about shipping & handing charges.

--
Scot Kamins
Maintaining the Modern Library collectors website
at http://www.ModernLib.com

On Apr 1, 3:28 pm, Ted Jones wrote:
Nobody wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

I only know it can be a boon to the buyer. Two months ago, my girlfriend
and I were touring Temecula. There was a bookstore there having a half
price sale. Everything was pretty fairly priced. The one exception was a
copy of "The Happy Bookers" It was full priced at $27.00. She said it
was on the Internet at full price. The book was probably VG with a G
dust jacket. She passed.

I checked "Addall" and non ex-lib were in a fairly pricey range 20 bucks
plus.

I don't know whether "Amazon" or "halfcom" had the books. The price was
50 cents plus shipping. The descriptions are terse as one would expect
at these rates.

I thought "I'll just get her a reading copy". Descriptions are not
paramount in these listings. I bought two in the hope that at least one
would be shaken but not stirred.

Both were VG+ to NF. They had dust jackets. The DJs were VG+.

We both got better books at half the price of the half priced copy.

Moral: Don't ask why, don't ask how, just ask how much.

I think "why" is important. When you buy books
at that price, it is good to remember you are
dealing with entities who are making their money
on shipping charges. If you want to deal with
them fine. Myself, having a great respect for
books, I prefer to buy from booksellers. Not
from people who are -- in effect -- "selling"
shipping charges. Maybe I am too much of
an idealist, but I refuse to believe the book
people do things like that. Sure, if you
sell a few hundred books a day for a penny
(that is, for $3.50) you can make some money.
Yet, there is something terribly grubby about
the practice, don't you think?.

[From the upstairs office.]

On Apr 3, 1:10 am, wrote:
On Apr 1, 3:28 pm, Ted Jones wrote:





Nobody wrote:
Can anyone explain how can it be worth it for anybody to sell used books for
$0.01 on Amazon? Even considering shipping allowance seller still has to go
through the trouble of packing it, printing a label, shipping and also
paying some fee to Amazon - all out of total $3.50. Where is the profit
here?

I only know it can be a boon to the buyer. Two months ago, my girlfriend
and I were touring Temecula. There was a bookstore there having a half
price sale. Everything was pretty fairly priced. The one exception was a
copy of "The Happy Bookers" It was full priced at $27.00. She said it
was on the Internet at full price. The book was probably VG with a G
dust jacket. She passed.

I checked "Addall" and non ex-lib were in a fairly pricey range 20 bucks
plus.

I don't know whether "Amazon" or "halfcom" had the books. The price was
50 cents plus shipping. The descriptions are terse as one would expect
at these rates.

I thought "I'll just get her a reading copy". Descriptions are not
paramount in these listings. I bought two in the hope that at least one
would be shaken but not stirred.

Both were VG+ to NF. They had dust jackets. The DJs were VG+.

We both got better books at half the price of the half priced copy.

Moral: Don't ask why, don't ask how, just ask how much.

I think "why" is important. When you buy books
at that price, it is good to remember you are
dealing with entities who are making their money
on shipping charges. If you want to deal with
them fine. Myself, having a great respect for
books, I prefer to buy from booksellers. Not
from people who are -- in effect -- "selling"
shipping charges. Maybe I am too much of
an idealist, but I refuse to believe the book
people do things like that. Sure, if you
sell a few hundred books a day for a penny
(that is, for $3.50) you can make some money.

Actually Amazon takes a cut of the $3.49 shipping charge, so the
vendor gets only about $2.50.

Yet, there is something terribly grubby about
the practice, don't you think?.

No, I don't think.

On Apr 3, 4:56 am, "RF" wrote:
On Apr 3, 1:10 am, wrote:


[...]

I think "why" is important. When you buy books
at that price, it is good to remember you are
dealing with entities who are making their money
on shipping charges. If you want to deal with
them fine. Myself, having a great respect for
books, I prefer to buy from booksellers. Not
from people who are -- in effect -- "selling"
shipping charges. Maybe I am too much of
an idealist, but I refuse to believe the book
people do things like that. Sure, if you
sell a few hundred books a day for a penny
(that is, for $3.50) you can make some money.

Actually Amazon takes a cut of the $3.49 shipping charge, so the
vendor gets only about $2.50.

If true, that simply means that the one-cent sellers
are even scroungier than I imagined. But, if you
order a book from them and cockroaches swarm
out of the shipping envelope, blame yourself.

Yet, there is something terribly grubby about
the practice, don't you think?.

No, I don't think.

No need to boast of the pathetic vacuity inside your
noggin, Finnan. Anyone who has read the drivel
you regularly post in this forum will be well
aware of it. It is very easy, in fact, to come
to the conclusion that where normal people
have frontal lobes, you have a couple of hunks
of swiss cheese. Sad.

[Memo from the upstairs office.]

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On Apr 3, 6:12 pm, wrote: Actually
Amazon takes a cut of the $3.49 shipping charge, so the
vendor gets only about $2.50.

If true, that simply means that the one-cent sellers
are even scroungier than I imagined. But, if you
order a book from them and cockroaches swarm
out of the shipping envelope, blame yourself.

You pathetic pompous tampon, of all the empty-headed nitwits in the
world, you take the cake.
Only an elitist turd-burglar like you would sneer at someone earning
an honest, albeit meager, living by selling books on Amazon cheaply.
As if there is something enobling about selling expensive books!
Do the world a favor palmjob and go kill yourself.

On Apr 3, 4:10 pm, "RF" wrote:
On Apr 3, 6:12 pm, wrote: Actually
Amazon takes a cut of the $3.49 shipping charge, so the

vendor gets only about $2.50.

If true, that simply means that the one-cent sellers
are even scroungier than I imagined. But, if you
order a book from them and cockroaches swarm
out of the shipping envelope, blame yourself.

You pathetic pompous tampon, of all the empty-headed nitwits in the
world, you take the cake.
Only an elitist turd-burglar like you would sneer at someone earning
an honest, albeit meager, living by selling books

Nonsense, Finnan, you jibbering garden slug. The
people I referred to are not selling books at all. If
you disagree, please explain the buying power of one
penny in America today. Basically, there is none.
If you "sell" something for one penny you are
giving it away free. But something is not being
given away free when the "lucky recipient" needs
to pay $3.49 shipping and handling, is it? No,
they are not selling books, they are SELLING
SHIPPING CHARGES, you dimwitted lout,
And booksellers I respect and want to deal
with are in the book business, not the "shipping
charge business."
..

on Amazon cheaply.
As if there is something enobling about selling expensive books!
Do the world a favor palmjob and go kill yourself.

As I said, Finnan, your posts strongly suggest
that where others have frontal lobes, you have
swiss cheese. First, there was your auto-flame,
bragging about something we all know -- that
you don't think. You ADMITTED it; everyone
else already KNEW it! Then, when I remarked
on your public self-immolation, all you could
manage was another of your profane tirades.
Nothing original at all; just another dumping
of your perverted, scatological rantings into
a public forum. (Well, at least no one can
accuse you of being proud.) As flames go,
a rabid orangutan brain-stem could have easily
bested you. Sad.

[Memo from the upstairs office.]

Poor, sad, pompous palmjob, unable to parse a simple sentence.
One would think a master of moronic buffoonery like you would know
better!