Frank , I tried to buy your book on Amazon but the seller refused payment ,
sent me the book plus .25 American money . Frugal
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Amazon sucks by Frank Kneeland
Frank , I tried to buy your book on Amazon but the seller refused payment , sent me the book plus .25 American money . Frugal
Well that's one for the books. If you could duplicate it and buy 100 books an hour, you'd have a nice hourly earn.
My guess is whomever was selling it had what's know as the Semmelweis Reflex. People with a lot of erroneous fantasy development about gambling really hate it when you show them reality. They feel you're killing Santa Clause.
I actually have a chapter about that in the book entitled, "There is No More Santa". Doubtful they got that far. Maybe I should have put it as chap 1.
When you are done reading it, fire me off a personal email and tell me if you think my guess might be right.
~FK
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, rcc2267775@... wrote:
the company listing your book at $178 sold over 5000 books on amazon
in the last year. i doubt they've even glanced at it, let alone read
it and become offended at your views on gambling.
amazon marketplace sellers rely on competitive price listings to
decide how to price their items. your book has no competitive price
listings, because you don't distribute it anywhere that they can find
it. so, they pick a big number out of the air and see if anyone bites,
and gradually lower it over time when no one does. it's effectively a
reverse auction. it doesn't harm anyone.
you'll see the same pattern of fluke huge sale prices on amazon with
many obscure titles with only one or two sellers.
cheers,
five
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Frank <frank@progressivevp.com> wrote:
My guess is whomever was selling it had what's know as the Semmelweis Reflex. People with a lot of erroneous fantasy development about gambling really hate it when you show them reality. They feel you're killing Santa Clause.
It's a great hustle. It plays on ingorance and greed. I remember when blackjack books used to command exorbitant prices.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, fivespot <fivespot55@...> wrote:
the company listing your book at $178 sold over 5000 books on amazon
in the last year. i doubt they've even glanced at it, let alone read
it and become offended at your views on gambling.amazon marketplace sellers rely on competitive price listings to
decide how to price their items. your book has no competitive price
listings, because you don't distribute it anywhere that they can find
it. so, they pick a big number out of the air and see if anyone bites,
and gradually lower it over time when no one does. it's effectively a
reverse auction. it doesn't harm anyone.you'll see the same pattern of fluke huge sale prices on amazon with
many obscure titles with only one or two sellers.cheers,
five