Bing
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From: Gaylord, MI, USA
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Warhorse
[B]Hmm, careful there Bing, I'm a used bookseller!! It's not a question of being out of line, it's just a trade thing, if it's out of print, you either get it from us, or by chance, or not at all, we are just trying to make a living, and I can honestly tell you, you DON'T get rich doing it... We are having a run of the worst years in all of our 22 years in business, we have to sell a hell of a lot of books in a weeks time to make ends meet, so please don't be too hard on us!!!:D :) [/B][/QUOTE]
Depends upon the seller. The prices vary wildly and via the Barnes & Noble OP - Used service I have twice cancelled an OP order because it was obvious the seller wasn't able to deliver at the price stated - sometimes not able to deliver at all. The owner of Articles of War - a huge new and used seller exclusively military titles - has checked on various titles for me and told me it would be fifty or sixty dollars for a book which originally sold for twenty to thirty. Depends upon the book.
Sure, I have gotten tremendously good deals in used - AoW sold me the Paul Dull IJN WW2 book for $9.50, a real bargain. OTOH I just paid $65. plus shipping for the OP 1984 Zaloga Soviet Tanks and Armored Vehicles - after cancelling an order which the B&N third party vendor claimed he would deliver the title for $30. He wasn't going to and it became obvious he wasn't. Once I switched to the next vendor, I got the book within a few weeks.
I never said anyone was getting rich. I said the customer is on his own when he ventures into the OP - Used market. Try to find a decent book on radar during WW2 for instance. There have only been a couple - one is current and available via the Naval Institue Press for a reasonable (more or less) price. The other volume, which I would prefer to have, was scouted for me and ran to $60.+ - thanks but no thanks.
I'll get into that sort of pricing occasionally but don't have the money to do it often - the Zaolga book I felt was pretty much mandatory if I was to have a decent, small library on Soviet arms and armor. It's going to be the last one at that price for some time, too.
If the person is close to a good used book store which stocks military titles some bargains can be had, I know that. But some of us aren't. I have to order everything via the Internet - or call Bob in New Mexico where Articles of War moved, doubtless to escape the Chicago winters.
Bing
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