"Allan Adler" <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "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]
>
Evelyn wrote:
>>Or maybe he/she was trying to find out if the books were worth buying.
Add two words to the end of that sentence: "for resale".
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