(urth) The Perils of Partnership

[António Pedro Marques]

Oh, but what I wanted to say, before I got carried on with the anti-amazon 
rant, was that in my experience - a reasonably thorough one - vendors are 
usually very honest in their presentation of items and conditions. At amazon 
or anywhere else, you should always check the vendor's rating (which however 
only gains significance with the number of reviews).
You should also leave feedback on the order, saying exactly what you told 
us, that the library markings should have been mentioned (every other offer 
mentions them, so it's not ignorance on the vendor's part).

António Pedro Marques wrote (22-03-2012 16:01):
> These days I only get 'used' stuff from the amazon marketplace if 'new'
> isn't available or the price just doesn't allow - good luck finding a new
> hardcover of
> http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Apocrypha-Vol-Apocalypses/dp/0664218792
> ! As a rule I don't buy from amazon itself. I hate amazon. Amazon bought
> Stanza only so it could terminate it and then released an iOS5 update which
> doesn't work on iOS4 but is pushed to iOS4 devices anyway*. All to eliminate
> competition for the Kindle, and how come Kindle for iOS today is still far
> behind 2008's Stanza where it comes to usefulness.
>
> (*) If you still have your binary of the previous Stanza in your hard drive
> then you can easily undo the 'upgrade' with iFunBox, but you'll have to take
> care not to allow it to be 'upgraded' again, which is a chore. The IPA has
> to be yours or the device jailbroken, otherwise no luck.
>
> My first Gene Wolfe book was 'used', and how. I almost got afraid of getting
> some disease from it. Once I'd finished it, I bought a new one. Sometimes I
> stay at small camping parks or the like and leave such duplicates there in
> the community library.
>
> Fred Kiesche wrote (22-03-2012 15:38):
>> Following up: If anybody would like one of these (as I get my actual real
>> live NEW copies that are NEW), let me know. Or two. Or all three. First
>> come, first served.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com
>> <mailto:godelescherbach at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings:
>> Just got my first three replacement copies of my missing Wolfe's:
>> Innocents Abroad, Starwater Strains, and Strange Travellers--all short
>> story collections in case any of the titles in these are on the May Is
>> Gene Wolfe Shorts Month project.
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
>> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
>> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman
>> Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children
>> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>>
>>
>>
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>> --
>> F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
>> scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
>> presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
>> Blogging at The Lensman's Children
>> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>>
>>
>>
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