"Allan Adler" <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "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
Into conspiracy theories, eh?
An intelligent bookseller (or picker) would have base his
picks on whether the market was already flooded, if there
were known needs for the books *at a certain price point*,
etc. But most of the automated systems I'm acquainted
with, are just databases tied to an ISBN. I can't imagine
anyone listing books he hasn't bought yet.
Kris
Skeptic
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