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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