/lit/ - Literature

>>8710929

No, but I would add a warning regarding using Abebooks for anyone considering a purchase.

Abebooks doesn't accept Paypal although they list it on their payment options. What they do is walk you through more a less a fake transaction and then tell you the bookseller will contact you to complete the Paypal transaction. What happens is that the bookseller makes a payment request directly through Paypal, which means the transaction has nothing to do with Abebooks and has no protection. In essence, they are now renting their brand to whoever wants to list books there.

The purchase I recently considered was listed by a bookjacker, which are spiders that scan for listings and then create false listings for that book at higher prices. If the fake listing generates a sale, the theory is that the bookjacker buys out the real listing and has it shipped to you. In reality, the spider may incorrectly scan the original listing or the bookjacker might choose to relist a used item as new, etc.