"Francis A. Miniter" <miniter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>If you read the responses, I think you will see that most of us have
concluded
>that the person was not listing books for sale but checking out what he
could
>get selling them retail if he were to buy them and list them.
Most of us, perhaps, but not all of us. There is a definite advantage to
not
having to risk any capital or to have to maintain any kind of storage
facility.
Also, the mere fact that a book is listed online at a certain price
doesn't
mean that anyone is buying it at that price or any price. The online
listings
would be useful information if they were prices that people said they were
willing to pay. It is not unusual to see books being listed for thousands
of dollars at Amazon, just because some bookseller is waiting for someone
who is both rich enough and desperate enough to pay it. It doesn't mean
that
someone can actually sell that book at any price.
Someone suggested that the books move too quickly for such a scheme to
work.
I'm not sure that is true.
What I'm wondering now is how many booksellers might be listing the very
same books, all sitting on the library sale shelf.
--
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
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