Shows there are two types in the world. Avaricious and suckers with too much
money. How can a book be of such value ? Ridiculous, given the amount of
info on the net.
Tony.
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From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Carl Clifford
Sent: Monday, 27 July 2015 2:02 PM
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Subject: Birds of Australia's Top End
Out of curiosity, I just looked up Birds of Wallacea on Amazon. They want
USD 899.97 for it. Needless to say, my copy is going to chained and
padlocked to my bookcase. I believe that the prices for books of this type
on Amazon are priced on the basis of the laws of supply and demand, and the
philosophy of "there is a sucker born every minute".
Carl Clifford
> On 27 Jul 2015, at 1:20 pm, wrote:
>
> This appears to be a not irregular scam with 'out of print' books.
>
> I found a copy of the out of print 'Albatrosses and Petrels Across the
> World' a couple of years back on ebay, sold from the US. IIRC there
> was a $500 'Buy it now' option but they would only sell to the US so I
> needed to set up a proxy mailbox.
>
> While I was doing that it sold.
>
> And was immediately relisted for $2500 by the new 'owner'.
>
> I emailed the new seller and wished them luck selling an obscure
> ornithological text book at about 10 times the original RRP.
>
> A few days later they had obviously reneged on the deal and it was
> back for sale at $500 through the original seller. I'd sorted out my
> proxy mailbox by then so it now sits in my bookcase :)
>
> mjh
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