Beware of used books on Amazon
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 2:26 pm
I am so pissed off today. I treated myself to a whole bunch of books the other day and was really looking forward to them. Mind you they were all second-hand books and I was buying them through Amazon. I particularly bought ones that were being sold THROUGH Amazon so I wouldn't have to pay shipping (I'm doing a free Prime tryout). I was very careful picking each book because the one thing I did NOT want was any ex library books. Nothing wrong with them, I have many in my non-fiction collection, but since these are fiction and I don't plan on keeping them I wanted copies that would be easy to resell.
Then I opened the box. THREE of the seven books I bought were EX LIBRARY!!!! One of them was in HORRIBLE condition (not even remotely the "good" they called it in their listing). They are covered in stickers and stamps - I'm so pissed off. Sure, I can read them - but I'll NEVER get a fraction of what I paid back on them given the conditions and the ex-library marks all over them. Had I known I would have NEVER bought them. My only hope is that since I will have a complete set now of a series someone on ebay, who just wants to read them, will buy the set despite how crappy some editions are >< I sure can't take them to my local bookstore (which was my intent) and trade them in.
So if you buy used books off of Amazon, be wary of anything that THEY are shipping on behalf of the dealer because the descriptions cannot be relied on.
Then I opened the box. THREE of the seven books I bought were EX LIBRARY!!!! One of them was in HORRIBLE condition (not even remotely the "good" they called it in their listing). They are covered in stickers and stamps - I'm so pissed off. Sure, I can read them - but I'll NEVER get a fraction of what I paid back on them given the conditions and the ex-library marks all over them. Had I known I would have NEVER bought them. My only hope is that since I will have a complete set now of a series someone on ebay, who just wants to read them, will buy the set despite how crappy some editions are >< I sure can't take them to my local bookstore (which was my intent) and trade them in.
So if you buy used books off of Amazon, be wary of anything that THEY are shipping on behalf of the dealer because the descriptions cannot be relied on.