[78-L] "Selling Sounds" reviewed [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

I've often wondered why Amazon Marketplace sellers offer new CD's for less
than used ones.  Not everybody, of course, but enough to make you stop and
think for a second....

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Selling Sounds" reviewed
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 12:09 PM
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Selling Sounds" reviewed
> From: "David Weiner" <djwein at earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, May 15, 2009 2:50 pm
> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 
> > Despite the May 31 publishing date mentioned here, I
> got my copy from
> > Amazon.com today.   Dave W.
> 
> They had USED copies earlier this week that were priced at
> double the
> list price, while all the new copies were priced less than
> list.  What
> do they think we are?  Idiots?  I've been
> checking with no luck the web
> site of the NYC bookstore famous for having a basement full
> of review
> copies of new books for half price, and I even went there
> last night
> just to be sure, but they haven't had any review copies
> come in -- or
> any new ones either.  The author will be doing a
> reading and signing at
> the 18th St B&N next Thursday at 6 PM.  That would
> usually be the night
> of the NYC ARSC chapter meeting but I haven't heard yet as
> to whether or
> not there will be one since it is the week before ARSC in
> DC.  So Leah
> and I will be going to one or the other or both.
> 
> Of course while at that bookstore we dropped about a
> hundred bucks.  The
> other reason I went there is because they said they had
> copies of David
> Hall's 1955 book for $6 and I didn't have a copy of it
> yet.  Got it. 
> And three other bags full.  Including an original copy
> of Cynthia
> Hoover's Smithsonian book "Music Machines American Style"
> for a buck on
> one of the sidewalk carts.
> 
> All because I was trying to save 5 or 6 bucks on Selling
> Sounds.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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