Liar or fool?
Archive: Online bookselling
I was just pricing a paperback edition of a 14th century English poet and ran across this listing:
Quality Trade Paperback AS NEW.Covers shiny,corners sharp,binding tight,pages clean.Univ of Toronto edition,edited by [name exised].Out of print from the publisher,our copy is the best available.
They want $40. You can still buy it new for $13.99 and you can buy a nice copy for half that.
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1 · Posted by: Joseph H Vilas on December 11, 2003 11:40 AM
I got really sick of this on eBay. I think now you can leave feedback when you aren't involved in a sale, and I've often been tempted to leave a nasty note with a URL to the in-print edition of someone's “out-of-print” book. Don't people even bother to look these things up on Bookfinder or Amazon?