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Old June 30th 06, 06:00 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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

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Old June 30th 06, 10:13 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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.]

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Old July 2nd 06, 12:09 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
David Ames
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Default Odd non-response from dealer


wrote:
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.

David Ames

David Ames

 




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