From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:54:16 -0700, Les Albert  wrote:   
   >On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:29:32 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
   >>I know you can find just about anything through Internet purveyors like   
   Amazon,   
   >>et. al.  Despite this, I still enjoy shopping at used book and record (CD)   
   >>stores.  Part of it is the thrill of the hunt, and part of it is the   
   serendipity   
   >>of finding something you weren't looking for, or didn't even know existed.   
   >>However, there are just some things that I never see in the stores, so I   
   decided   
   >>as a treat to simply look up a few long-sought items for possible purchase.   
   >>>The prices for books were mostly what might be expected.  I was a little   
   puzzled   
   >>by one thing, though.  Sometimes there would be a couple of dozen listings   
   for   
   >>a title, with a range of prices.  Say perhaps a couple of less expensive   
   options   
   >>for a few dollars, with the bulk of the entries for ten to fifteen dollars.   
   >>Then at the very top, two or three listings asking for thirty to forty   
   dollars.   
   >>And no, the most expensive listings were not necessarily the ones with the   
   best   
   >>condition rating.  Do those vendors ever expect to sell those books at those   
   >>prices?  Are they checking to see how others are pricing the same item?  Is   
   that   
   >>the price in their store, and they just don't care if it sells online?   
   >   
   >I see this on Amazon and have also been puzzled by who would pay   
   >$968.00 for a book that others are offering at $12.48.  The best   
   >reason I have found is that the high priced item is a ‘place-holder’   
   >for something the seller does not have in stock. The seller is   
   >figuring no one will actually buy the item, but if someone does happen   
   >to order the $968 book the seller either cancels the order or has it   
   >drop-shipped at a lower price from another seller, and profits from   
   >the difference.   
      
   What I have seen in multiple instances is one seller offering a book for say   
   $12.48 and another seller offering the same book for $12.49.  I don't see too   
   many wildly inflated prices when there are multiple copies available, although   
   even when most sellers are asking $10-15, there will be a couple of listings   
   for   
   $25-35.   
      
   The nine hundred dollar items have been CDs, with only one listed as available   
   on Amazon.  For example the asking price for Gil Scott-Heron's "Moving Target"   
   is $903.   
      
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