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A comment on Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback.

Re:Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback by logfromblammo on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:06PM (#17544025)
At that price, better to buy a stamp and write the author directly, including a check big enough to cover hardcover list price, plus postage. They might have an extra copy in a box in storage somewhere, and they might even sign it for you.

I'd be afraid that if I ordered the conspicuously expensive one, it would show up hollowed out and filled with dirty fentanyl-heroin, or the book is utterly normal, and the seller is a money launderer that now has my home shipping address.

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Re:Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback by LeifCarrotson on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:42PM (#17544393)
The book is utterly normal, and the seller is grateful to have your clean, unlaundered money instead of having to pay their own seller's account with their dirty money (and let Amazon take their cut). They'll just buy another copy of the book with the dirty money.
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