Wednesday 30 December 2015

Amazing oddity

In the course of checking the price on amazon of the collected works of Dickens, as part of the research for the post at reference 1, I came across the book snipped left.

As far as I can tell there is nothing special about the expensive one, a perfectly ordinary copy which was once the property of a perfectly ordinary public library, now a used copy in good rather than excellent condition, so presumably looking a bit worn. One might think that in these days of clever computers, amazon would weed this sort of thing out - but as they haven't, if you were stupid or drunk enough to pay the asking price, would you get a refund if you subsequently complained?

Collected Dickens on kindle come in as low as 49p, so £1.99 was not that bad a guess.

Reference 1: http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/festive-fayre.html.

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