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Bargain Books Aren’t “New”

I ordered this from Amazon. It said shipped by Amazon, but I didn’t realize that its origins were a third-party seller. Regardless, it was listed as “new.” It wasn’t, it was a beat-up bargain book with stickers. I gave the seller a one-star review and Amazon’s response was “we shipped it so it’s our responsibility.” Well, that sure makes it ok. The kicker, I exchanged it for another “new” copy and it showed up just like the first one. So much so, I didn’t even bother taking new photos.

Published by Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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