Looking for a book

Amazon is pure awesomeness if you ask me. I'm to the point where I buy basically everything most people would buy at a Walmart or Target at Amazon instead. I've gotten everything from books (before I had my Kindle) to movies to clothes to toilet paper to laundry detergent to a big-screen TV from there. Honestly, the best customer service I've ever encountered from a large company.

 

ralphie250, it looks like your book is out of print. Are you asking about Amazon's third-party selling?

 

Basically this:

Ebay is like going to a flea market. Tons of sellers, many prices can be haggled over, some goods are new some are used, etc.

Amazon is liking going to a huge dept store. Most things are purchased directly from the store (there are exceptions), most prices are fixed, most goods are new. There are specific items that are also carried used by secondary sellers, but it's a much smaller section of the goods available than on Ebay.

And like I said, you'll be hard pressed to find a better functioning online retailer than Amazon. I've often ordered items in the afternoon, picked 2-day shipping, and they were shipped that night and arrived at my door the very next day. I've literally spent thousands and thousands of dollars with Amazon over hundreds of deliveries since 1999. I had ONE item delivered a day late in all of that time, and it was the shipping company's fault. On the rare occasion that I've had to call customer service about any other problem their response has always blown me away (people actually speak clear English, short/no wait times, they overnight replacement goods to fix the problem, etc.).

 

When I searched for his title, it was unavailable/out of print. Amazon has no copies in stock that I could see, and there was no indication they could order it.

It looks like it's only available from a third-party seller, the author's relative by the looks of it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...rect=true&qid=1325006923&sr=1-2&condition=all

 

Ahh, that's slightly different. Though I'd still be inclined to say it's "safe", in that the worst that is likely to happen is that Amazon will refund the money if the transaction somehow fails. I've bought (and sold) a handful of items through Amazon third-party interactions and never had an issue.

ralphie250, this link should answer most of your concerns: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=537868

 

Well, the seller is a five-star seller, and she has 97% positive ratings over the past 12 months (with 92 total ratings).

I'd feel pretty safe ordering that book if it were me.

 

Agreed.

 

I'm pretty certain it's self-published. In one of the entries, the bookseller's name is listed as the publisher.

The spiral binding and horrific cover designs also give that away.

Not that I'm judging the content or anything.