Allan Adler wrote:
> "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.
Who is postulating that? That's pretty silly. I think what Evelyn is
saying, and I certainly am, is that the most likely explanation is that
the person was a bookseller looking up the resale value of the books on
Amazon in order to buy them and take them home. If you find a $50 book
for $2 at a book sale, you'd buy it and take it home before someone else
got it, wouldn't you? Why list it for sale and leave it there when
someone else can buy it out from under you? That's incredibly stupid.
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