Missing Emails from Amazon

Do agressive spam filters send communications from Amazon.com into oblivion?

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Goodbye to the Small Bookshop

How the web is putting an end to the indepedent book retailer.

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Homebase / Amazon Marketplace Glitch?

Homebase book number and Amazon SKU mismatch.

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Amazon's new SellersAnswer (Scam)

Phishing exploit aimed at Amazon.com Marketplace and zShop merchants.

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Every page is inspected in detail!!!

Bad, silly, preposterous, unlikely descriptions of used books.

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Pathetic Book Description

Badly described used books on Amazon.com.

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My Debt to Bookfinder

Used book search engine led me to my first venture into web retailing and eCommerce.

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Bookfinder Sold to ABE (Ouch?)

Best wishes and luck to Anrivan, hope it works out well.

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Shipping to UK, Europe Getting Slower?

Are security concerns slowing down mail between America and overseas?

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ABE, Alibris and Devil Amazon!

Amazon removes ABE and Alibris listings while paranoid used book dealers complain of conspiracy and predict that Amazon is trying to rule the used book business.

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Alibris Sales Jump

Why aren't we selling more books on ABE and Amazon?

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E is not é on ABE

ABE has changed its handling of treatment of accented characters in book searches.

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Amazon's Odd ISBN Problem

Amazon.com doesn't recognize valid ISBNs that are actually in its database of titles.

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Death to all Muslims on Amazon

Marketplace seller sends copy of Koran with anti-Muslim message

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Alibris Listings Fees

Though unhappy with Alibris' new fee structure we will continue to sell used books via their website.

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Alibris changes for dealers

Alibris' new fees probably mean we won't be selling on their site anymore.

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ABE's Amazon program redux

ABE's Amazon program and maintaining an adequate fulfillment rate.

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Upper case addresses

I use Clipmate to keep mailing address labels clean looking.

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I hate Amazon.com

Angry emails from an Amazon.com Marketplace, zShops customer.

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Another used book site closes

If you are looking for site on which to sell your used books we suggest you join TomFolio

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Mr. Customer: update your address when you move

Online customers who are tardy about changing their shipping address when they move: inconvenient and costly.

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Selling on Biblio

Biblio.com has proven to be a website worth selling used books on.

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Search engine optimized merchant accounts

Frequent offers to opmitize our website, to give us a merchant account and other unwanted emails.

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Jump in non-US sales

ABE has been proving us more European customers as Summer sales pick up.

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May have some underlining or marks

Sociology text badly, lazily described by online bookseller.

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Touching email from a self-published author

Vanity publishing and self-published books are often impossible to sell.

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Help the customer tell me how to ship his book

Irresponsible, careless ecommerce website design, make it easy for the customer to provide shipping preference, options.

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Describing used books

The art and science of used book description and the frustration of buying a poorly described book from an incompetent or dishonest bookseller.

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Used bookdealers on crack?

Horrible, bad, incompetent descriptions of books used by online booksellers.

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Get those sold books out of your listings!

Online used bookdealers who are too lazy to remove sold inventory from their listings

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Sour mornings in the used book trade

Used book dealers have their bad mornings when they are pulling the books ordered online

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Netflix, USPS, you & me

Customers who don't understand that the arrival time of their purchase depends more on the post office than on the bookseller who shipped it.

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Mass market in unknown jacket

Bad online book descriptions

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We shipped a book with blank pages

Unwittingly we sent out a book with blank pages. The customer who received it was very kind

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This book is better for having been scribbled in

Dishonest attempts to sell used books with underlining and marginalia

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Customers who don't know how to use email

Don't order something without providing a valid email address or you may be unhappy when it never arrives

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Our funniest book description

Our clerk confused Homebase's data entry screen with an AOL instant message chat window

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Don't you hate those orders for books you've already sold?

Customers ordering books I don't have anymore and having to apologize to them

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And they talk about gold in your attic

Found an old paperback I'd had for years and sold it for 100 times what I'd been asking

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ISBNs gone wrong

ISBN data differs among online vendors of books like ABE.com and Amazon.com

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ABE's emails to booksellers

The proper design of email forms

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Cataloger's dementia

Getting a bit foolish when choosing keywords for the books that I catalog

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The shocking truth of media mail abuse exposed!

As a retailer I find the US postal service's treatment of shipping options like priority and media mail annoying

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Bad otherwise good

Books badly described by online used bookdealers

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Lots of orders from Barnes & Noble

Wish ABE's Barnes and Noble program had better shipping reimbursement

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Call the ISBN police

Some books have incorrect data or gibberish associated with their ISBN numbers

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Biblio

Biblio.com a used book search and listing site in Asheville North Carolina

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Kindness from Antiqbook

Kindness from Antiqbook the Dutch used book dealer's site in response to my notice that we were canceling our listings account

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Goodbye Antiqbook

Problems listing books on Antiqbook and other used book listings websites

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To be fair there are nice customers

Pleasant and positive communications from online used book buyers

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Hey, Mr. Customer: read your email and reply to it damnit

Do online book buyers understand shipping read their email, are they too lazy to reply?

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ETC SEE ALSO GENERAL

Book keywording's legacy from library card catalogs and publisher laziness produce a list of junk keywords

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Minor miracle

Finding a misplaced used book before it is ordered online, ecommerce can be tough

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No mail receptacle?

Customers who can't give us their shipping address because they are incompetent or lazy

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May have highlighting

Bad book descriptions from online bookdealers

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Choose Books

Online book listings at Choose Books

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Back at Bibliology

British website listing used books from dealers around the world

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Where do those books go

Frustrations even if you own your business

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Dear Mr. Customer (you silly ass)

Stupid mistakes people make when ordering a used book online

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Goodbye Australia?

May be time for us to refuse to sell books to Australia unless Australians are willing to pay for air mail or global priority

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Finally bought a scanner for the shop

Learning to master my new Canon scanner's auto-crop feature

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Dropped from ABE's Half.com program

Removed from ABE's Half.com program because our fulfillment rate was too low

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Buy this book if you need it

Poor, inadequte descriptions of used books online

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Depends on knowing where to look

Used book prices sometime vary widely from site to site

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Our own human rights day?

Selling human rights themed books

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Liar or fool?

Some online bookdealers are dishonest, others are ignorant

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BookFinder

Website for finding inexpensive, cheap and out of print books on the internet

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No €'s

We can't accept euros in the US. Banks charge too much to process a €

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Selling the first book we cataloged

Rich Hendel, Vicky Statham, selling used books online for five years.

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Ordering used books with stolen credit cards

Indonesia: stolen credit cards are used to order stolen books, one of the pitfalls in online bookselling.

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Targeting porn spam at online booksellers?

Porn spam directed at used bookdealers.

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Desperate bookselling

Trying to sell an incomplete copy of a Ballantine Adult Fantasy series novel, Double Phoenix.

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As soon as possible

Emails from Australia asking the value of old books found in an attic.

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The BookFinder Report

Bookfinder book search report.

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How about a rpg based on Revelation?

Role playing games and end time prophecies from the book of Revelation.

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Pay more for 'brand name' used books

Internet advertising and branding.

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Wrestling with Christian customers

Indignant Christian customer who bought a book on demons via Barnes & Noble BookQuest.

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Idiotic advice from Amazon.com

Amazon's stupid recommendations.

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TomFolio: independent used bookshops

TomFolio, independent used bookdealer cooperative.

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Please pick me!

Funny Amazon Marketplace book descriptions

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Booksdofurnisharoom.com

Booksdofurnisharoom.com Books Do Furnish A Room's website.

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Standard used book descriptions

Unhelpful used book descriptions seen online.

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40,000 books

Cataloging books for online sales.

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ABE's Amazon Program

ABE Amazon Marketplace program feedback.

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FREE stick of gum included

Amazon's Marketplace free gum with every book.

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Selling to Sarah Schulman

Selling Sarah Schulman and Richard Kostelanetz their own books.

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Silly book descriptions

Silly book descriptions on Amazon's Marketplace

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