"Evelyn C. Leeper" <eleeper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Allan Adler wrote:
> > Recently, I was at a library and noticed someone sitting by some books
> > being sold by the library. This person was using a laptop to connect
> > via wifi to Amazon. Apparently he/she was looking up the sale books
> > at Amazon, but I couldn't see in greater detail what was being done.
> >
> > My guess is that he/she is listed at Amazon as a bookseller and was
> > listing the library sale books as being available from him/her,
setting
> > the price at a level that would be competitive with the ones already
> > listed.
>
> Or maybe he/she was trying to find out if the books were worth buying.
Since the ****pping costs alone of an Amazon book purchase are typically
about
$3.49 and the book itself only costs a maximum of $2 from the library,
with
no ****pping or handling charges at all, the possibility that he/she was
investing all that effort in finding out whether the library was offering
better deals than Amazon is simply not credible.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions
and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near
Boston.
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