Missing Emails from Amazon
Do agressive spam filters send communications from Amazon.com into oblivion?
Read entire articleGoodbye to the Small Bookshop
How the web is putting an end to the indepedent book retailer.
Read entire articleHomebase / Amazon Marketplace Glitch?
Homebase book number and Amazon SKU mismatch.
Read entire articleAmazon's new SellersAnswer (Scam)
Phishing exploit aimed at Amazon.com Marketplace and zShop merchants.
Read entire articleEvery page is inspected in detail!!!
Bad, silly, preposterous, unlikely descriptions of used books.
Read entire articleMy Debt to Bookfinder
Used book search engine led me to my first venture into web retailing and eCommerce.
Read entire articleBookfinder Sold to ABE (Ouch?)
Best wishes and luck to Anrivan, hope it works out well.
Read entire articleShipping to UK, Europe Getting Slower?
Are security concerns slowing down mail between America and overseas?
Read entire articleABE, 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.
Read entire articleE is not é on ABE
ABE has changed its handling of treatment of accented characters in book searches.
Read entire articleAmazon's Odd ISBN Problem
Amazon.com doesn't recognize valid ISBNs that are actually in its database of titles.
Read entire articleDeath to all Muslims on Amazon
Marketplace seller sends copy of Koran with anti-Muslim message
Read entire articleAlibris Listings Fees
Though unhappy with Alibris' new fee structure we will continue to sell used books via their website.
Read entire articleAlibris changes for dealers
Alibris' new fees probably mean we won't be selling on their site anymore.
Read entire articleABE's Amazon program redux
ABE's Amazon program and maintaining an adequate fulfillment rate.
Read entire articleUpper case addresses
I use Clipmate to keep mailing address labels clean looking.
Read entire articleAnother used book site closes
If you are looking for site on which to sell your used books we suggest you join TomFolio
Read entire articleMr. Customer: update your address when you move
Online customers who are tardy about changing their shipping address when they move: inconvenient and costly.
Read entire articleSelling on Biblio
Biblio.com has proven to be a website worth selling used books on.
Read entire articleSearch engine optimized merchant accounts
Frequent offers to opmitize our website, to give us a merchant account and other unwanted emails.
Read entire articleJump in non-US sales
ABE has been proving us more European customers as Summer sales pick up.
Read entire articleMay have some underlining or marks
Sociology text badly, lazily described by online bookseller.
Read entire articleTouching email from a self-published author
Vanity publishing and self-published books are often impossible to sell.
Read entire articleHelp 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.
Read entire articleDescribing 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.
Read entire articleUsed bookdealers on crack?
Horrible, bad, incompetent descriptions of books used by online booksellers.
Read entire articleGet those sold books out of your listings!
Online used bookdealers who are too lazy to remove sold inventory from their listings
Read entire articleSour mornings in the used book trade
Used book dealers have their bad mornings when they are pulling the books ordered online
Read entire articleNetflix, 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.
Read entire articleWe shipped a book with blank pages
Unwittingly we sent out a book with blank pages. The customer who received it was very kind
Read entire articleThis book is better for having been scribbled in
Dishonest attempts to sell used books with underlining and marginalia
Read entire articleCustomers 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
Read entire articleOur funniest book description
Our clerk confused Homebase's data entry screen with an AOL instant message chat window
Read entire articleDon'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
Read entire articleAnd 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
Read entire articleISBNs gone wrong
ISBN data differs among online vendors of books like ABE.com and Amazon.com
Read entire articleCataloger's dementia
Getting a bit foolish when choosing keywords for the books that I catalog
Read entire articleThe 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
Read entire articleLots of orders from Barnes & Noble
Wish ABE's Barnes and Noble program had better shipping reimbursement
Read entire articleCall the ISBN police
Some books have incorrect data or gibberish associated with their ISBN numbers
Read entire articleBiblio
Biblio.com a used book search and listing site in Asheville North Carolina
Read entire articleKindness from Antiqbook
Kindness from Antiqbook the Dutch used book dealer's site in response to my notice that we were canceling our listings account
Read entire articleGoodbye Antiqbook
Problems listing books on Antiqbook and other used book listings websites
Read entire articleTo be fair there are nice customers
Pleasant and positive communications from online used book buyers
Read entire articleHey, 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?
Read entire articleETC SEE ALSO GENERAL
Book keywording's legacy from library card catalogs and publisher laziness produce a list of junk keywords
Read entire articleMinor miracle
Finding a misplaced used book before it is ordered online, ecommerce can be tough
Read entire articleNo mail receptacle?
Customers who can't give us their shipping address because they are incompetent or lazy
Read entire articleBack at Bibliology
British website listing used books from dealers around the world
Read entire articleDear Mr. Customer (you silly ass)
Stupid mistakes people make when ordering a used book online
Read entire articleGoodbye 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
Read entire articleFinally bought a scanner for the shop
Learning to master my new Canon scanner's auto-crop feature
Read entire articleDropped from ABE's Half.com program
Removed from ABE's Half.com program because our fulfillment rate was too low
Read entire articleDepends on knowing where to look
Used book prices sometime vary widely from site to site
Read entire articleBookFinder
Website for finding inexpensive, cheap and out of print books on the internet
Read entire articleSelling the first book we cataloged
Rich Hendel, Vicky Statham, selling used books online for five years.
Read entire articleOrdering used books with stolen credit cards
Indonesia: stolen credit cards are used to order stolen books, one of the pitfalls in online bookselling.
Read entire articleTargeting porn spam at online booksellers?
Porn spam directed at used bookdealers.
Read entire articleDesperate bookselling
Trying to sell an incomplete copy of a Ballantine Adult Fantasy series novel, Double Phoenix.
Read entire articleAs soon as possible
Emails from Australia asking the value of old books found in an attic.
Read entire articleHow about a rpg based on Revelation?
Role playing games and end time prophecies from the book of Revelation.
Read entire articleWrestling with Christian customers
Indignant Christian customer who bought a book on demons via Barnes & Noble BookQuest.
Read entire articleTomFolio: independent used bookshops
TomFolio, independent used bookdealer cooperative.
Read entire articleBooksdofurnisharoom.com
Booksdofurnisharoom.com Books Do Furnish A Room's website.
Read entire articleSelling to Sarah Schulman
Selling Sarah Schulman and Richard Kostelanetz their own books.
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