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I buy a lot of used, old, obscure things (mostly books). Very often, Amazon is the only place I can find it reliably; my other options would probably be asking
by GuiA 10y ago
I buy a lot of used, old, obscure things (mostly books). Very often, Amazon is the only place I can find it reliably; my other options would probably be asking my Japanese/German/etc friends to dig through second hand shops and mail it to me.
I love the Amazon marketplace. (I also hate the 3rd party seller feedback emails but I have strict email filters so who cares)
- pvdebbe 10y agoThe marketplace works out very poorly if one doesn't have Amazon in their country. The info about shipping abroad is very much buried into whatever, and Amazon IIRC mandates that purchases can't be combined: if I buy two $0.01 books, FROM THE SAME SELLER, they will be shipped separately at $4-6 shipping & handling each.
- a3_nm 10y ago> I buy a lot of used, old, obscure things (mostly books). I find AbeBooks to be very good for that. Ironically, they were acquired by Amazon, but they are still a separate system.
- Pxtl 10y agoIt's not that I think the Amazon Marketplace is a bad idea, it's that the way the Amazon Store and the Marketplace are conflated by Amazon that's the problem. eBay and AliExpress do what Amazon Marketplace does better than Amazon Marketplace, but Amazon wins because they've leveraged their success as a store for it.
- germanier 10y agoIf you are interested in books from the German-speaking region you should also take a look at zvab.com (now owned by Amazon) which is the largest marketplace for professional used book sellers.