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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] |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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! |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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. |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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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 |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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.] |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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. |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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.] - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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. |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
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.] |
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Question about $0.01 used book prices on Amazon
Poor, sad, pompous palmjob, unable to parse a simple sentence.
One would think a master of moronic buffoonery like you would know better! |
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