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Out of curiosity, I just scanned through the feedback for one of the sellers who does this. Although they have a high rating (224,852) and nearly 5,000 Positives in the past 12 months, they also have over 700 Neutral and Negative feedbacks during that time. Almost all of them are from people saying they purchased a book and then were told it was out of stock. I wonder how that plays into this practice. Surely, a legitmate business shouldn't lose track of over 700 items in a year's time.
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Steve
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I think sometimes even legitimate sellers list books that they don't actually have, but think they can get a hold of quickly and make a quick profit on, and then it turns out they can't. It's not hard to enter a legitimate barcode for a book you don't actually have, they can just grab it off a library copy. I ran into this a lot on half.com when I was trying to replace an out of print Doctor Who book my husband left on an airplane. Most of the sellers suddenly didn't have it in stock anymore, but not until you tried to order it and they'd had a week to look for it before finally getting back to you.Comment
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