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Pre-damaged books from Amazon reaches a whole new level

This book was listed as “new” on Amazon. I knew it was a third-party seller (Anti-Social Seller Club) being handled by Amazon but new is new and the price was great. Regardless of Amazon’s taking “responsibility” for the problem (see the screenshot below,) not only was it dirty, damaged, and stickered, but someone (the third-party seller I assume,) took a Dremel to the bottom of the pages to scrape off the bargain mark. I’d call this equivalent to rolling back the odometer in a car, but a lot more sloppily handled.

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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