I got the book from amazon in mail The foundations of Leninism for 1 dollar

[AmilcarCabral]

I got the book today from amazon in the mail The foundations of Leninism for 1 dollar

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[Hermes]

I got the book today from amazon in the mail The foundations of Leninism for 1 dollar.

1 dollar, including shipping?

I always get really excited when I see books on Amazon I'm interested in, used, for $0.01, but then I kind of forget that the shipping cost is usually about ~$4.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Amazon shipping is absurd, price wise; often you will see the post office costs for shipping on the package and more often than not the actual shipping costs is half of what you paid. Annoys me to no end.

[argeiphontes]

You have to consider the shipping materials, the costs of delivering the packages to the Post Office, and the time required to pack them. Also, it has to average out among somebody's inventory, including large books, because Amazon has set reimbursements for shipping, which are really arbitrary and inexplicable, though. My guess is that it's because they want you to "take advantage" of storing your books at their warehouses or use other formulas to determine what's best for them. I can't really afford to ship most things internationally unless I inflate the price, which would make domestic buyers balk, for example.

I'm not sure what kind of a book you can get for 0.01, unless the seller bought a lot of thousands of them to drop their cost basis and is just making a few cents on each of thousands of books. Also, sellers tend to inflate the quality of the books, but then beg you to remove bad ratings, thus inflating the ratings overall. Or at least passing them thru a U-shaped filter.

I just bought two "Very Goods". One of them has a pretty rough dust jacket, "Good" at best, and the other didn't mention a severe bump to the bottom front corner that creased 1/3 of the first page corners. I can't in good conscience give them 4 stars, though, because the books were somewhat rare and I wouldn't want them to suffer. (If I thought they weren't actual booksellers but those 0.01 shops, I would do it though, if for no other reason than to make myself look better ;) ) It's not worth returning many of the books I buy because there's no copy that would be better at that price point. It's not like somebody has an extra signed copy of Principles of Economic Sociology lying around to exchange me.

It's a quagmire for buyers and sellers. Sometimes it pisses me off a lot.

[Remus Bleys]

I don't believe this.