Used books are hard to move. This is one reason why most libraries don’t take donations. These sales are for clearing shelves more than for making profit.
Not hard to move. Almost impossible to move. In my shelf apart from some old leather bound books from my grandfather (Churchils world history, complete Hamsund) and CE and hard cover 40k books I have nothing but paper trash
People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.
I use the Norwegian finn.no (listings of everything from old books to cars to houses. Norway is such a small market that one service covers all) It’s perfect for selling used (but little used) baby and child stuff. I have also bought a lot off Lego Duplo.
A library I used to use would put old books for sale outside. If someone came in to pay for them, great, but if they happened to mysteriously disappear, that was fine too.
Speaking for myself, I’m too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can’t trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.
My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It’s been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent’s walls every few months.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.
This is one of those times where seeing it all written out feels redundant, but you know if those examples weren’t there people would be asking if one book cost £0.5.
Guarantee it wasn’t written out first until they had people argue about it
That would be me
yeah ill take one order of 2 books, and uhh another order of three books
That’ll be £2.50
£5.00 actually
Ah, my joke was that I am too stubborn with my pricing. You WILL have the discount, and you WILL like it. But maybe I’m too old and tired and convey it with a glare.
I like that each of you is trying to out-pedant each other in a very civil manner
It’s arguably the only purpose of social media. 😂
SCIENCE BITCH
I found out why they want to get rid of them fast. They’re actually ice sculptures disguised as books!
I’m sure they had to do this because they had too many people asking “how much for 3 books”.
That or just because funny.
f(x) = 2.50 for x in {1,2,…,5}
They should have put that on the sign. Functional notation is universally understood, after all.
not.
Maybe a plot then.
buy one get 4 free
Don’t say it that way because people will take 5 and trash 4 of them just because. Labelling it this way, people will actually take 2 if they only want 2.
A book is 2.50.
Two books are 2.50.
Three books are 2.50.
Four books are 2.50.
Five books are 2.50
Six books are $5.00
Seven books are £5.00
Eight books are €5.00
Six books are £5.00
Edit: oops
Wouldny 6 books be £5.00?
Donate 2.5 pounds and select up to 5 books.
Your welcome.
Is “your” bolded because its a trap for people to point out you used the wrong version?
Correct. You must be the rogue.
Your must be the rouge
You would be surprised how many people need a writeup like the one in the post.
£2.50
Those seem to be really cool books, or at least the box they’re in thinks so
Seems pretty clear.
MildlyConfusing
Any good books in there?
Got myself a life changing book.
But… did you pay £2.50 for it?
If not, they can now sell it for £2.50
Did you pay VAT on it?
Classic BOGF sale.
Buy one get fucked?
