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dorian_fisher in booksellers

Strangeness at Hippy Land

Apr 11, 2006 20:18

We found out today that the bookstore that I work at was mentioned last weekend in the Washington Post in a Travel article about the city we're in. This would certainly explain all of the out of state calls we've gotten asking about our store ( Read more... )

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anonymous April 12 2006, 02:48:11 UTC

That's horrible and wrong. I wish you could refuse. I was once in a bookstore where a woman walked in and bought several thousand dollars worth of nineteenth and eighteenth century books because they matched her leather furniture. She didn't care who they were by or what they were about . . .

starlit__ April 12 2006, 10:32:11 UTC

that's so horrible. I have heard that interior designers buy books 'by the yard', to match rooms.

"by the yard" whatandreareads April 13 2006, 01:09:35 UTC

Yes! I had someone come in once and ask for books on sale. I asked what kinds he was looking for, and he said he'd gotten a new bookcase and need stuff to put in it. Ick! That is what made me feel dirty.

Re: "by the yard" dorian_fisher April 13 2006, 02:39:25 UTC

I've had a Dr. come in and was looking for old leather bound medical books for his office. But he seemed to have a lot of fun looking through some of the really old (and horribly wrong) medical texts. I thought he was being frivolous, but at least he was a Dr., buying medical books. But just buying books to fill a bookcase seems a bit tarded to me. I buy bookcases only when I'm out of room for the books I already have.

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gruyere April 12 2006, 05:24:22 UTC

Wow, I totally know those books. We have a few of them in the store where I work.

thepartyline April 12 2006, 21:48:01 UTC

And of course they're non-returnable to vendor!

autodidacticphd April 12 2006, 10:52:34 UTC

you aren't really in retail until you feel dirty about it.

ts_looney April 13 2006, 02:40:35 UTC

And you aren't really in business online till someone from nigeria wants to buy 100 of whatever it is you happen to sell.

autodidacticphd April 13 2006, 13:34:10 UTC

i thought it was: your business isn't really online until someone buys whatever you happen to sell for... "adult purposes".

ts_looney April 13 2006, 14:43:27 UTC

Pron drives the internet.

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bookfoole April 12 2006, 15:56:58 UTC

It's inevitable...if you don't sell them to him, someone else will; so, it might as well be you making the sale. I rationalize selling to breakers the same way.