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To me, this is a feature, not a bug. I'd be overjoyed to save one thousand dollars on a text book with slightly worse printing. Saving a few dollars to buy tr
by nostromo 7y ago
To me, this is a feature, not a bug. I'd be overjoyed to save one thousand dollars on a text book with slightly worse printing.
Saving a few dollars to buy trash... not so much.
Edit: thanks for the response below pointing out that the savings is not so extreme. Still, when I was an undergrad, money was very tight for me, so if I could find a way to save a few bucks, I was grateful for it.
- vector_spaces 7y agoThe listing price of the non-international edition isn't a thousand dollars -- it's about a hundred new, with several $50 listings for a used copy. Which is pricey, but not as egregious as e.g. Stewart's Calculus which runs close to $250 new for the latest edition
- SkyPuncher 7y agoThis is a huge problem for my wife, a resident doctor. She has reverted to ordering from Barnes and Noble and local book stores because she doesn't know what she'll get off Amazon. If she misses something important because she inadvertently got a knockoff with missing/incorrect info, she can't use the book as an excuse.
- fennecfoxen 7y agoHaving it available isn't the problem. Having it show up above the regular product, and misleading people about what they're actually buying, is the problem.
- kipchak 7y agoMost of my textbooks were international editions or a few editions back, for me that listing is an issue as the international is cheaper elsewhere. On Abebooks (which is great for searching by ISBN) It's $17.41 - not a big difference, but if I thought I was buying the standard edition I would go for the Amazon.
- thiagomgd 7y agoThe problem is: it's not clear that it's a different edition, so they are basically lying to you.