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What I thought was interesting (as a used book dealer myself) was a glance at the page of "used" copies. A dozen or so vendors purport to have copies to sell you at a discount rate. These are, of course, the bottom feeders who use web scraping software to find out what books are selling, snuffle up the info and then put on a listing for themselves. They don't ever HAVE the books, they just figure they will grab a copy elsewhere (from the publisher or a seller on a more modestly priced site) if they actually get lucky and get an order. You can look at their feedback scores to see how well this plan works in real life as far as buyers are concerned.

So you'd probably disrecommend the swearing and throwing things, then?

Yeah, I figured. Not that I would dare to throw things in MY house, for fear of triggering the dread Stuffalanche....

Anyway, thanks.

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