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A girl calls and wants me to check for something like 18 books she has on a list. Most used book stores don't have the inventory on the computer, which means that I would have to check the stacks for each title. Not going ot happen. I teller as much and she replies that when she looks on line they are all in different stores and she doesn't want to spend all that money on shipping.
To that woman and all like her:
Lady, You can be cheap but that means doing alot of time consuming footwork. You could spend weeks or months hitting every thrift store and library/garage sale looking for the titles you want. You'll get great prices. Or you could go to used book stores. We've done the Thrift store-library/garage sale thing for you. We have lots of good titles in one building. But guess what, The building and it's utilities and the vehicles and their gas need to be paid for. The staff (AKA me) expect to be paid. And the owner isn't in this for his health. That means that they're going to cost more.
I know you think you have the system beat when you decide to go on-line. Well you don't. You don't know who you are dealing with when you are buying from an on-line seller. I do. Think of used car salesmen without the social graces. They are very good at gaming any system. Sure they list the price of the book as $0.01 but you know what. They mark up shipping. This way when people sort their search by price (cheapest first) theirs comes up high on the list. Yet they still make money on shipping.
Either spend the money or do the footwork. Don't bug me.
To that woman and all like her:
Lady, You can be cheap but that means doing alot of time consuming footwork. You could spend weeks or months hitting every thrift store and library/garage sale looking for the titles you want. You'll get great prices. Or you could go to used book stores. We've done the Thrift store-library/garage sale thing for you. We have lots of good titles in one building. But guess what, The building and it's utilities and the vehicles and their gas need to be paid for. The staff (AKA me) expect to be paid. And the owner isn't in this for his health. That means that they're going to cost more.
I know you think you have the system beat when you decide to go on-line. Well you don't. You don't know who you are dealing with when you are buying from an on-line seller. I do. Think of used car salesmen without the social graces. They are very good at gaming any system. Sure they list the price of the book as $0.01 but you know what. They mark up shipping. This way when people sort their search by price (cheapest first) theirs comes up high on the list. Yet they still make money on shipping.
Either spend the money or do the footwork. Don't bug me.
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