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Missing Emails from Amazon

Do agressive spam filters send communications from Amazon.com into oblivion?

Goodbye to the Small Bookshop

How the web is putting an end to the indepedent book retailer.

Homebase / Amazon Marketplace Glitch?

Homebase book number and Amazon SKU mismatch.

Amazon's new SellersAnswer (Scam)

Phishing exploit aimed at Amazon.com Marketplace and zShop merchants.

Every page is inspected in detail!!!

Bad, silly, preposterous, unlikely descriptions of used books.

Pathetic Book Description

Badly described used books on Amazon.com.

My Debt to Bookfinder

Used book search engine led me to my first venture into web retailing and eCommerce.

Bookfinder Sold to ABE (Ouch?)

Best wishes and luck to Anrivan, hope it works out well.

Shipping to UK, Europe Getting Slower?

Are security concerns slowing down mail between America and overseas?

ABE, Alibris and Devil Amazon!

Amazon removes ABE and Alibris listings while paranoid used book dealers complain of conspiracy and predict that Amazon is trying to rule the used book business.

Alibris Sales Jump

Why aren't we selling more books on ABE and Amazon?

E is not é on ABE

ABE has changed its handling of treatment of accented characters in book searches.

Amazon's Odd ISBN Problem

Amazon.com doesn't recognize valid ISBNs that are actually in its database of titles.

Death to all Muslims on Amazon

Marketplace seller sends copy of Koran with anti-Muslim message

Alibris Listings Fees

Though unhappy with Alibris' new fee structure we will continue to sell used books via their website.

Alibris changes for dealers

Alibris' new fees probably mean we won't be selling on their site anymore.

ABE's Amazon program redux

ABE's Amazon program and maintaining an adequate fulfillment rate.

Upper case addresses

I use Clipmate to keep mailing address labels clean looking.

I hate Amazon.com

Angry emails from an Amazon.com Marketplace, zShops customer.

Another used book site closes

If you are looking for site on which to sell your used books we suggest you join TomFolio

Mr. Customer: update your address when you move

Online customers who are tardy about changing their shipping address when they move: inconvenient and costly.

Selling on Biblio

Biblio.com has proven to be a website worth selling used books on.

Search engine optimized merchant accounts

Frequent offers to opmitize our website, to give us a merchant account and other unwanted emails.

Jump in non-US sales

ABE has been proving us more European customers as Summer sales pick up.

May have some underlining or marks

Sociology text badly, lazily described by online bookseller.

Touching email from a self-published author

Vanity publishing and self-published books are often impossible to sell.

Help the customer tell me how to ship his book

Irresponsible, careless ecommerce website design, make it easy for the customer to provide shipping preference, options.

Describing used books

The art and science of used book description and the frustration of buying a poorly described book from an incompetent or dishonest bookseller.

Used bookdealers on crack?

Horrible, bad, incompetent descriptions of books used by online booksellers.

Get those sold books out of your listings!

Online used bookdealers who are too lazy to remove sold inventory from their listings

Sour mornings in the used book trade

Used book dealers have their bad mornings when they are pulling the books ordered online

Netflix, USPS, you & me

Customers who don't understand that the arrival time of their purchase depends more on the post office than on the bookseller who shipped it.

Mass market in unknown jacket

Bad online book descriptions

We shipped a book with blank pages

Unwittingly we sent out a book with blank pages. The customer who received it was very kind

This book is better for having been scribbled in

Dishonest attempts to sell used books with underlining and marginalia

Customers who don't know how to use email

Don't order something without providing a valid email address or you may be unhappy when it never arrives

Our funniest book description

Our clerk confused Homebase's data entry screen with an AOL instant message chat window

Don't you hate those orders for books you've already sold?

Customers ordering books I don't have anymore and having to apologize to them

And they talk about gold in your attic

Found an old paperback I'd had for years and sold it for 100 times what I'd been asking

ISBNs gone wrong

ISBN data differs among online vendors of books like ABE.com and Amazon.com

ABE's emails to booksellers

The proper design of email forms

Cataloger's dementia

Getting a bit foolish when choosing keywords for the books that I catalog

The shocking truth of media mail abuse exposed!

As a retailer I find the US postal service's treatment of shipping options like priority and media mail annoying

Bad otherwise good

Books badly described by online used bookdealers

Lots of orders from Barnes & Noble

Wish ABE's Barnes and Noble program had better shipping reimbursement

Call the ISBN police

Some books have incorrect data or gibberish associated with their ISBN numbers

Biblio

Biblio.com a used book search and listing site in Asheville North Carolina

Kindness from Antiqbook

Kindness from Antiqbook the Dutch used book dealer's site in response to my notice that we were canceling our listings account

Goodbye Antiqbook

Problems listing books on Antiqbook and other used book listings websites

To be fair there are nice customers

Pleasant and positive communications from online used book buyers

Hey, Mr. Customer: read your email and reply to it damnit

Do online book buyers understand shipping read their email, are they too lazy to reply?

ETC SEE ALSO GENERAL

Book keywording's legacy from library card catalogs and publisher laziness produce a list of junk keywords

Minor miracle

Finding a misplaced used book before it is ordered online, ecommerce can be tough

No mail receptacle?

Customers who can't give us their shipping address because they are incompetent or lazy

May have highlighting

Bad book descriptions from online bookdealers

Choose Books

Online book listings at Choose Books

Back at Bibliology

British website listing used books from dealers around the world

Where do those books go

Frustrations even if you own your business

Dear Mr. Customer (you silly ass)

Stupid mistakes people make when ordering a used book online

Goodbye Australia?

May be time for us to refuse to sell books to Australia unless Australians are willing to pay for air mail or global priority

Finally bought a scanner for the shop

Learning to master my new Canon scanner's auto-crop feature

Dropped from ABE's Half.com program

Removed from ABE's Half.com program because our fulfillment rate was too low

Buy this book if you need it

Poor, inadequte descriptions of used books online

Depends on knowing where to look

Used book prices sometime vary widely from site to site

Our own human rights day?

Selling human rights themed books

Liar or fool?

Some online bookdealers are dishonest, others are ignorant

BookFinder

Website for finding inexpensive, cheap and out of print books on the internet

No €'s

We can't accept euros in the US. Banks charge too much to process a €

Selling the first book we cataloged

Rich Hendel, Vicky Statham, selling used books online for five years.

Ordering used books with stolen credit cards

Indonesia: stolen credit cards are used to order stolen books, one of the pitfalls in online bookselling.

Targeting porn spam at online booksellers?

Porn spam directed at used bookdealers.

Desperate bookselling

Trying to sell an incomplete copy of a Ballantine Adult Fantasy series novel, Double Phoenix.

As soon as possible

Emails from Australia asking the value of old books found in an attic.

The BookFinder Report

Bookfinder book search report.

How about a rpg based on Revelation?

Role playing games and end time prophecies from the book of Revelation.

Pay more for 'brand name' used books

Internet advertising and branding.

Wrestling with Christian customers

Indignant Christian customer who bought a book on demons via Barnes & Noble BookQuest.

Idiotic advice from Amazon.com

Amazon's stupid recommendations.

TomFolio: independent used bookshops

TomFolio, independent used bookdealer cooperative.

Please pick me!

Funny Amazon Marketplace book descriptions

Booksdofurnisharoom.com

Booksdofurnisharoom.com Books Do Furnish A Room's website.

Standard used book descriptions

Unhelpful used book descriptions seen online.

40,000 books

Cataloging books for online sales.

ABE's Amazon Program

ABE Amazon Marketplace program feedback.

FREE stick of gum included

Amazon's Marketplace free gum with every book.

Selling to Sarah Schulman

Selling Sarah Schulman and Richard Kostelanetz their own books.

Silly book descriptions

Silly book descriptions on Amazon's Marketplace

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