I regularly buy books of various sorts. I get a few off of eBay,
out of print books I can't find anywhere else. Mostly I just cruise
eBay to get titles of books I'd be interested in buying, then check my
list of on-line sellers to see if I can find what I want.
Recently I found two books on eBay I was really interested in. I
was tempted to bit on them, until I saw who the seller was. I've dealt
with this seller before, with unhappy results. Long story.
Anyway, the first book was one I was very interested in, so started
looking thru the on-line sellers. Finally found the book. Took awhile,
because the eBay seller did not use the actual title of the book. I
bought the book on-line, new, and paid about $15 less than the guy's
starting bid, and the price I paid included postage. The guy was asking
a substantial amount for postage over what media mail would cost. The
kicker is, apparently the guy is drop-shipping.
The other book I wanted was offerred by the same seller, same
tactics. Title he was using is totally not like the actual title. Took
me awhile to run down that one. I ordered a copy of that one for about
half what the guy's opening bid wa for, and my price was including
postage. Little weasel apparently drop-shipping - again.
I think that particular seller, and probably more, are just
drop-shipping. That's irritating as Hell. But, I did get put onto two
books I wouldn't have kown about otherwise. I wound up paying close to
$40 total, including postage, for these two books. Which is about half
the price the weasel was wantingfor opening bids, not including
shipping.
Both books are on marine steam. Haven't got the second one yet,
but the first one does also cover several really neat wooden models too.
There's the wood connection.
I also got a book on wooden boa building the other day - used, for
around $7-8, including postage. Just gotta shop around. I love books,
you can flip back a few pages and take another look at a paragraph, or a
picture, maybe stick a bookmark in place. Don't have to have electric
to read it either, just a decent light source. Try that with a 'puter
during a power outage.
eBay is fine for a lot of things, but you've got to watch what
you're buying, and got to watch what they're charging for shipping.
You've got to check the current selling prices of book too (or
whatever) before y9u bid on eBay. Recently I just lost out on a two
volume set of books on steam. If I'd have bid a few $ more I'd have
gotten them for about $50 for the two, not including shipping. I
checked a bit too late and found out the lowest price for the two with
the on-line sellers was about $80 for the pair - and up. Ah well. But
quite awhile back I got a book on-line about woodworking jigs for about
$5 - including shipping.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 3:56pm (EST-3) [email protected]
(Larry=A0Blanchard) did posted:
Also http://www.abebooks.com
They've been on my saved list a lonnng time.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
J T wrote: There's the wood connection.
>
> I also got a book on wooden boa building the other day - used, for
> around $7-8, including postage.
And I thought they were made of feathers. Little did I know.
Yeah, I know what you meant, just couldn't resist.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
An unemployed court jester is no one's
fool.
Forgot to say this before. At times an extended search pays off.
I wanted an out-of-print book, that I think had a limited printing to
begin with. Problem was, it was priced high, mostly in about the $150
range going up to $375,. But, a lot of searching, over a week or so,
and I got a copy for about $35, not including postage. You just gotta
keep looking, sometimes you get a good deal, sometimes not.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
Drop shipping is where a supplier will sell you an item at wholesale when
you have a customer for it and ship it to your customer for a set fee
(handling charge) per shipment + shipping. The latest thing in Web
business, no inventory needed, no warehouse space, just a computer and a web
site.
"efgh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >The kicker is, apparently the guy is drop-shipping.
>>
>
> Pardon my ignorance but what is drop-shipping?
>
>
On Jan 26, 12:23 am, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
> Yeah, and no ethics needed either.
I agree that scrambling the title of the book is unethical. But if the
guy wants to pad his shipping and charge twice what the book goes for
at alibris.. then more power to him if he can get away with it. Some
people are willing to pay for the convience of just logging on to ebay
and grabbing it, rather than spending a couple weeks hunting it down.
I'm not one of those people either, but some are.
That weasal probably has a lot of auctions that aren't bid on if they
are overpriced. Since he has to pay a listing fee to sell on ebay, it's
ultimately hurting him if he prices his stuff too high.
Fri, Jan 26, 2007, 11:22am (EST-3) [email protected] (bf) doth sayeth:
<snip> That weasal probably has a lot of auctions that aren't bid on if
they are overpriced. Since he has to pay a listing fee to sell on ebay,
it's ultimately hurting him if he prices his stuff too high.
The only thing I can say with certainty is, I dealt with him once -
and will never do so again, no matter what he offers, what the price, or
what the shipping. But he still does me a service in that he does
occessionally offer something I'm interested in. Once I see it's him
offering tho, there's no way I'd bid. But once I finally figure out the
actual book title I go to my on-line seller links and find the book and
buy from one of them.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
Thu, Jan 25, 2007, 9:46pm (EST-1) [email protected]
(sweet=A0sawdust) doth sayeth
<snip + shipping. The latest thing in Web business, no inventory needed,
no warehouse space, just a computer and a web site.
Yeah, and no ethics needed either. I was checkng eBay again for
interesting book titles - so I could check te on-line book sellers.
Found one I'd just got a copy of for about $18.50, including shipping.
The starting bd was only $10, which is a really great price fo that
particular book. But the shipping was $10. Just a couple of bids would
put it beyond a reasonable price, what with te shipping cost.
I also ran across the weasel I'd mentioned before. Another book,
starting of $39.95, not including postge. But he jumbled the book title
up, so it sounded like a different book altogether. Try and convince me
that's ethical. I don't recall what the shipping was, but I'm sure he
padded that too, h always did so I doubt he'll change.. Media rate
isn't that much. I finaly figured out what book he was selling, or
trying to, and got a copy from an on-line seller for $28.50, including
shipping - not a bad price really, as it' usually is listed at waay over
$30.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
[email protected] (J T) wrote:
> Media rate
> isn't that much. I finaly figured out what book he was selling, or
> trying to, and got a copy from an on-line seller for $28.50, including
> shipping - not a bad price really, as it' usually is listed at waay over
> $30.
>
Try the used copies on Amazon. Usually fairly good prices and the shipping
fee is Fixed at $3.49 for all books and all sellers - media rate. You Can
get faster shipping for a higher but similarly fixed rate. I've bought and
sold used on Amazon and I'm pretty satisfied.
Fri, Jan 26, 2007, 6:48am (EST+5) [email protected]
(Lobby=A0Dosser) doth sayeth:
Try the used copies on Amazon. Usually fairly good prices and the
shipping fee is Fixed at $3.49 for all books and all sellers - media
rate. You Can get faster shipping for a higher but similarly fixed rate.
I've bought and sold used on Amazon and I'm pretty satisfied.
Amazon is already among the sellers I check. If I've got a choice
I'll usually opt for a used bok, rather than new, because of the price
difference. But at imes a new book is a better deal, often because it's
less costly simply because of lower shipping. My latest purchase would
have been about $5 more on Amazon. I've also found a lot of places want
to ship priority mail, but want to charge more than priority mail would
actually cost - a lot of them do the same even with media mail. You
sell your books? Shame on you.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:10:37 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>You
>sell your books? Shame on you.
Yes, one can justify more woodworking tools to build homes for those
books, I know I married a booknut. She also does the runs the process
of taking an edited manuscript to a finished book.
Mark
(sixoneeight) = 618
[email protected] (J T) wrote:
> You
> sell your books? Shame on you.
>
Hey, it's either that or build an addition and I can't afford to do that.
Books that turned out to be less useful than I thought get sold. At least
somebody might get more use than me.
Sat, Jan 27, 2007, 12:34am (EST+5) [email protected]
(Lobby=A0Dosser) doth publically admit:
Hey, it's either that or build an addition and I can't afford to do
that. Books that turned out to be less useful than I thought get sold.
At least somebody might get more use than me.
Well, I've got to admit that at times I do get rid of some of my
books. Some of them I got long ago, or ones people have bought me
mostly - people never buy me books I'd want to buy on my own. I don't
actually "sell" them tho. I take them to my favorite used bookstore and
trade 'em in for credit - then get more books It's kinda a vicious
circle.
Before I buy any books on-line I always make sure I know what the
contents are before I buy. That way I have no regrets when it arrives.
Usually check by visits to new bookstores and/or the library. Nothing
like flipping thru a book page by page to see if you actually want it or
not.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
[email protected] (J T) wrote:
> I take them to my favorite used bookstore and
> trade 'em in for credit - then get more books It's kinda a vicious
> circle.
>
Been in That circle!
Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 5:56pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(B=A0A=A0R=A0R=A0Y)
doth query:
Ever check half.com?
Matter of fact, that's where I ordered my latest book from. My
most frequently used on-line seller link had it as the lowest priced
seller.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
"efgh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >The kicker is, apparently the guy is drop-shipping.
> >
>
> Pardon my ignorance but what is drop-shipping?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop-shipping
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 1/06/07
"sweet sawdust" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Drop shipping is where a supplier will sell you an item at wholesale
> when you have a customer for it and ship it to your customer for a set
> fee (handling charge) per shipment + shipping. The latest thing in
> Web business, no inventory needed, no warehouse space, just a computer
> and a web site.
And has been in use for decades sans computer, if not longer. I'm thinking
around the time of the first mail order catalog in the US - 1744.
> "efgh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:GBnth.151299$rv4.16864@edtnps90...
>> >The kicker is, apparently the guy is drop-shipping.
>>>
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance but what is drop-shipping?
>>
>>
>
>
>
Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 6:18pm (EST+5) [email protected] (Andrew=A0Hartung)
doth sayeth:
Check the following likns out when looking for books. They both search
several sellers and give a list of prices.
Thanks anyway, but as of today I've got 31 on-line seller links
saved, and most of them do the same - but 99% of the time I only use the
same link. http://www.allbookstores.com/
On an extend search I sometimes use every link. But that's usually
just for something out-of-print, often with a low printing. Most of the
time my usual link does it. Or, occassionally, eBay is the only place
to get what I'm after - but that's a last resort, the total cost usually
works out higher on eBay.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I regularly buy books of various sorts. I get a few off of eBay,
> out of print books I can't find anywhere else. Mostly I just cruise
> eBay to get titles of books I'd be interested in buying, then check my
> list of on-line sellers to see if I can find what I want.
>
> Recently I found two books on eBay I was really interested in. I
> was tempted to bit on them, until I saw who the seller was. I've dealt
> with this seller before, with unhappy results. Long story.
>
> Anyway, the first book was one I was very interested in, so started
> looking thru the on-line sellers. Finally found the book. Took awhile,
> because the eBay seller did not use the actual title of the book. I
> bought the book on-line, new, and paid about $15 less than the guy's
> starting bid, and the price I paid included postage. The guy was asking
> a substantial amount for postage over what media mail would cost. The
> kicker is, apparently the guy is drop-shipping.
>
> The other book I wanted was offerred by the same seller, same
> tactics. Title he was using is totally not like the actual title. Took
> me awhile to run down that one. I ordered a copy of that one for about
> half what the guy's opening bid wa for, and my price was including
> postage. Little weasel apparently drop-shipping - again.
>
> I think that particular seller, and probably more, are just
> drop-shipping. That's irritating as Hell. But, I did get put onto two
> books I wouldn't have kown about otherwise. I wound up paying close to
> $40 total, including postage, for these two books. Which is about half
> the price the weasel was wantingfor opening bids, not including
> shipping.
>
> Both books are on marine steam. Haven't got the second one yet,
> but the first one does also cover several really neat wooden models too.
> There's the wood connection.
>
> I also got a book on wooden boa building the other day - used, for
> around $7-8, including postage. Just gotta shop around. I love books,
> you can flip back a few pages and take another look at a paragraph, or a
> picture, maybe stick a bookmark in place. Don't have to have electric
> to read it either, just a decent light source. Try that with a 'puter
> during a power outage.
>
> eBay is fine for a lot of things, but you've got to watch what
> you're buying, and got to watch what they're charging for shipping.
>
> You've got to check the current selling prices of book too (or
> whatever) before y9u bid on eBay. Recently I just lost out on a two
> volume set of books on steam. If I'd have bid a few $ more I'd have
> gotten them for about $50 for the two, not including shipping. I
> checked a bit too late and found out the lowest price for the two with
> the on-line sellers was about $80 for the pair - and up. Ah well. But
> quite awhile back I got a book on-line about woodworking jigs for about
> $5 - including shipping.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.
JT...I also buy a lot of books on all types of things. Sounds like you do
many things. I have bought a lot from Lindsay Publications. A lot of out
publication reprints. Low prices and cheap shipping. I have purchased on
Metal working, electronics, technical, They only have one book on
woodworking , it is for making woodworking tools. You can check at
www.lindsaybks.com They have an interesting catalog they send out. Warren
Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 4:43pm (EST-2) [email protected] (Warren=A0Weber)
doth sayeth:
<snip> I have bought a lot from Lindsay Publications. <snip>
You "really" need to learn to snip.
You're a bit late. I started buying from Lindsay Publications many
years ago.
JOAT
Bugrit. Millennium hand AND shrimp.