Amazon Wants Your Badfinger Book
Yes, that's right. The huge Internet bookseller wants to buy your used "Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger." Consumers are so hungry for this now-rare and valuable book that Amazon is offering $56.36 for your dog-eared copies so it can satisfy its customers with the resale.
Unheard of? Probably not. I haven't researched what Amazon is doing in cases of other out-of-print books with high demand, but this particular biography is going for $120.00 used, and $290.00 new (assuming a "new" copy can even be found).
What is particularly ironic is that this comes on the heels of the release of Joey's biography, "Badfinger and Beyond", which sells for less brand new on Amazon than what the retailer wants to pay for your beat-up, used "Without You" copy. I guess this goes to show that both consumers and retailers know value when they see it, as well as fodder.
Yes, that's right. The huge Internet bookseller wants to buy your used "Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger." Consumers are so hungry for this now-rare and valuable book that Amazon is offering $56.36 for your dog-eared copies so it can satisfy its customers with the resale.
Unheard of? Probably not. I haven't researched what Amazon is doing in cases of other out-of-print books with high demand, but this particular biography is going for $120.00 used, and $290.00 new (assuming a "new" copy can even be found).
What is particularly ironic is that this comes on the heels of the release of Joey's biography, "Badfinger and Beyond", which sells for less brand new on Amazon than what the retailer wants to pay for your beat-up, used "Without You" copy. I guess this goes to show that both consumers and retailers know value when they see it, as well as fodder.
posted by ßill at Monday, November 21, 2011
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