(urth) The Perils of Partnership

[Fred Kiesche]

Rating was 100%. They shipped it quickly. They are in good shape. Just not
the shape that I was expecting. Sometimes a lack of description is
misleading.

2012/3/22 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>

> 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<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 <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/<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/<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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