Fivemack FAILS at shopping

[fivemack]

Anyone want a brand-new copy of K J Parker's Colours in the Steel ? An unobserved shopping error at Amazon meant that I ordered two copies. Yours for a pint.

His trilogy beginning with Devices and Desires caught me by page three of the first volume when I picked that up at a con a few years back, and was good enough to the end that I bought this earlier trilogy of his sight-unseen.

(I had to check his gender; for some reason initials make me assume a writer is female, and the writing style, possibly by comparison with papersky, struck me as ineffably feminine)

Comments

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

Send it back to Amazon. They'll take it even if the mistake was yours, they are really good that way.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that too. Seconded (from what I hear).

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought envelope + postage + cost of pint would exceed the 4.89 that it cost me, but maybe this is just an unfortunate ebay experience leading me to think that posting single books is always and forever uneconomic.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Well, second hand books for 1p charge £3.?? for postage (have I got that right?), so if so, it must be slightly to your good. *Do* you have to pay postage, amazon don't cover it?

If so and if no, then you'd probably get a couple of quid back on the deal, so indeed less than the cost of a pint, and also less getting someone else to read it.

Or you could keep it in case the book is a favourite and you want to keep it to give as a present :)

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Marketplace postage is £2.75 - the same as if you ordered a single book from Amazon themselves, First Class intra-UK delivery, not via Amazon Prime.