The seller's losing some money, but he's getting customer satisfaction and a good customer review, and on Amazon your sales live and die by your reviews.
It depends on the book, for me. Once I swapped two of my expensive engineering books, sent them to the wrong people. I paid the shipping to have them sent back to me, and paid shipping again to send them to the right people. I still made a decent profit on the books. (I only had the one copy of both, so I would have had to do that anyway, of course.) But once when I shipped out the wrong paperback, it would have cost me more to pay to have it shipped back to me than I would have made selling it, so I did better to take the loss and pay shipping only once - to send the right book.
I don't even bother to sell paperbacks anymore, unless it's a hard-to-find one. The fee Amazon charges the buyer for shipping is generous and usually more than enough to cover the cost, especially when you use recycled shipping materials as I do, but Amazon has their own fee, and frankly it isn't worth the hassle to make just a buck or two. If it were my living, it would be, but as a side thing to make "spending money", it's not.
ION, I am sick. I rarely get sick, and I'm not dealing with it well.
whine
I want someone to come take care of me. What can I eat if even crackers make me want to barf?
The seller's losing some money, but he's getting customer satisfaction and a good customer review, and on Amazon your sales live and die by your reviews.
It's strange; after I got the wrong book, I checked the reviews and was surprised that it was actually fairly low (92% in the last 30 days—I normally prefer sellers with 95% or above). Loads of great reviews, but quite a few 1-star reviews about not getting the right product or getting a defective product and having nothing done about it. They must not have talked to the guy I talked to, who was great!
(The funny part was that he "had a theory" about why the book was mislabeled, like they just hired some new guy who was an idiot or something. Obviously, he didn't go into detail, but I was amused that he actually had an inkling of where things went wrong.)
Nilly, the Wedding: Freaking Awesome. I'm dead tired now, but I bet our girl is still there, dancing, giggling, smiling, and stopping every 5 minutes to take her picture with a guest.
And there was so much love there. You can't even begin to imagine.
Words, words and more words tomorrow. Pictures as soon as the bride will allow me to post them for the masses.
Lovely wedding, in every way of the term.
Oh, bed now.
Hurray for happy love-filled weddings!!!
Thanks for the update, Shir--get some sleep and then wake up and tell us everything!
Yay Nilly wedding!
Thanks for that on-the-scene reporting, Shir.
Tru Blood O Positive, A Synthetic Blood Nourishment Beverage For Vampires
My 4 pack of Tru Blood O Positive arrived last week, it’s a based on the synthetic blood substitute that vampires drink in the HBO series Tru Blood, which just finished Season 2. It’s a tart, lightly sweetened blood orange carbonated drink created by our friends at Omni Consumer Products, the same people who produce Brawndo – The Thirst Mutilator and Sex Panther Cologne.
Oh, good grief.
Friends A and B are separating. They agree that they want to tell people themselves rather than have anyone find out second- or third-hand through the gossip network.
Friend A's definition of telling people is "pull them aside for a one-on-one chat".
Friend B's definition is... well, let's say that Friend C just popped up in Facebook chat to say "Why does B's status say 'single'? Holy shit!"
(Obvs. part of the issue here is that C hasn't yet had the one-on-one and I have, blah blah how-to-answer awkwardcakes. But the other part is, dudes, playing all this out with FB statuses? SO VERY HIGH SCHOOL.)
Whoops, CBS just got another curse word onscreen during the men's final. Details:
Federer was pissed that the ref allowed Del Potro to challenge after quite a bit of time elapsed. The mic caught quite a few words, including "I don't give a shit..."
