The Perils of Partnership

Jeff Wilson · 22 Mar 2012, 16:35 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:35:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Perils of Partnership
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On 3/22/2012 11:23 AM, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com
> <mailto:jwilson at clueland.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/22/2012 10:35 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote:
>
>         Annoyed as they are all ex-library books: which the Amazon
>         "partner" did
>         not mention in his/her description. I did not pay a lot, and
>         these are
>         all fine "reading copies", but given a choice between a
>         ex-library book
>         with stickers, mylar wrap and stamps and things inside...and a
>         actual
>         "new" copy without any of that, I'll choose the new one.
>         Am I a cranky book collector or what?
>
>
>     Were they sold as new, or "as good as new" condition? If you bought
>     books listed under the "used" tab, you could do a lot worse.
>
> Jeff, a book sold in "good" or higher condition should not be defaced.
> A book with stamps, labels, and pasted-in card holders is "fair"
> condition at best.


If it's sold as a collectable, sure. As used retail merchandise, the 
standards are lower. I admit the lines are blurred somewhat by the 
market's barriers to entry being lowered to the point where it's gainful 
to deal in single used items online.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0062IGP0S/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=&sr=&seller=&colid=&condition=used

Was it under the "collectible" or the "used" tab, Fred?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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