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.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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