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I bought a lot of used books from Amazon when shipping used to cost $1.99 or $2.99, but now that it's $3.99, there's less of a differential between the cost of
by Johnny555 11y ago
I bought a lot of used books from Amazon when shipping used to cost $1.99 or $2.99, but now that it's $3.99, there's less of a differential between the cost of a new book (or Kindle book) and the cost of a used book (that may have problems like missing pages, which happened to me twice -- very frustrating to be hours into a book and find out that several pages were torn out for some reason). So now I rarely buy used.
Though I guess enough people are buying them to make it worthwhile to sell them.
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- gregn 11y agoGo to abebooks.com. Often the same sellers sell the exact same books there but with 2.50 shipping instead of 3.99. I almost never shop at amazon anymore for the simple reason that their used book base shipping rate is too high. But that's me; I'm addicted to used books.
- DaveWalk 11y agoI'm right there with you. I find the psychological race-to-the-bottom fascinating: a book at $4 is not nearly worth it when it could cost $2.50.