Don't you hate those orders for books you've already sold?
Archive: Online bookselling
It was one of those mornings. Online orders were heavy but I couldn't find the first three books on my list of pulls.
One book, ordered by A, we'd sold a couple of years ago. For some reason A sometimes still has long sold books and properly marked as such in Homebase listed.
Another, ordered by another A had been sold by that same listing site. Supposedly whenever we sell something via them they remove it from their database. Ghosts in the machine I guess.
Book three was my fault. I remembered selling but forgot to mark it as sold. I usually admit that in my in my email apologizes to the customer who ordered it. Often I wonder if they believe or even understand when I explain that we'd sold the book and updated our records and don't have any idea why BozoBooks still shows it for sale.
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