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HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:51 amby Black Jack Rackham
Not content with the usury fees of Sophia's Daughters and The Player's Guide, they're now asking 371.27 for this...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crescent-Empire ... 53fb8106e8
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:20 amby Black Jack Rackham
AND not to let those jerkwads up in Columbus bilk their customers all alone, Dallas HPB has THE VERY SAME BOOK, for 360.46
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crescent-Empire ... 485744f3af
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:55 pmby svensven
Wow... I had no idea I was sitting on a gold mine with all my 7th Sea books
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:44 pmby Black Jack Rackham
I'd sell my copy for half that... A BARGAIN!!
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:58 pmby Black Jack Rackham
Columbus is upping the ante, doubling their price to 768.43!
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:03 pmby Black Jack Rackham
Meanwhile, Dallas, sensing Columbus has overplayed their hand, opts for the more conservative raise to 580.37.
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Tue Aug 06, 2013 7:38 amby Black Jack Rackham
Now they're just messing with me. Both have gone to over $900!
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:47 amby Black Jack Rackham
Ok, I just don't have words... $1896.78...no that's not a typo, WTF are they thinking?!?!
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Fri Aug 09, 2013 5:17 pmby salamanca
Some disgruntled employee is having fun with the account.
Now if it pays off, he is in line for promotion. if it does not... the book sits on the shelf.
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:55 pmby spizio
I read a news article once about a bot program that online stores can use to set prices. It is based off of available prices for similar items it finds online. There was a similar situation where 2 retailers using it had a ridiculous run up in price on an item they seemed to be the only 2 sellers of online. That is until a human noticed and the pricing dropped. This may be what is happening.
It has been a couple of years but I may try searching it out.
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:20 pmby Black Jack Rackham
spizio wrote:I read a news article once about a bot program that online stores can use to set prices. It is based off of available prices for similar items it finds online. There was a similar situation where 2 retailers using it had a ridiculous run up in price on an item they seemed to be the only 2 sellers of online. That is until a human noticed and the pricing dropped. This may be what is happening.
It has been a couple of years but I may try searching it out.
It has to be this, they're at 4k each now... (Yes $4,000)
Re: HALF-Price Books is At It Again!
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:53 amby Black Jack Rackham
So after I finally gave in and emailed them the prices dropped back to (somewhat) reasonable levels. I figured they'd finally gotten their act together, right?
Nope. I'm puttering around last night and dallas-hpb's Crescent book has hit 5k...