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downpunxx ,

listen, you paid what you thought it was worth to you
that's how retail works
they buy product, then sell them at a markup
you buy products from them only if you think it's worth the price they're asking
you get the product, they get the money

Hawk ,

I don’t think about the price, It’s about reselling something you got at a charity.

Plenty of stores sell cheap, used stuff that everyone can fit in their budgets. More and more of these resellers are picking the stores clean, leaving a lot less available for those who “need” it.

downpunxx ,

charity shops aren't for those who "need" the products, their sole purpose is to generate funds for the charity. have you lost your mind?

Hawk ,

Well, not according to these organisations, like Oxfam here who boast about the ecological and social aspect of second hand products.

Clearly you have no idea what these organisations do or stand for?

Thorry84 ,

You chose to buy it at that price. What does it matter what the original price was or how much the seller made? You thought the price was fair, had the choice to not buy it or buy it somewhere else.

This isn’t like scalpers buying up items, creating artificial scarcity and driving up prices for profit. This is just plain old capitalism.

Presumably the price also included shipping and handling fees, since you bought it online. So in the end the seller probably made just a couple of quid, he deserves to get paid for what he does no?

ElCanut OP ,

12£ is just the book, no shipping included.

Making a X10 markup on something you bought from a charity is infuriating imo

And sorry for finding basic capitalism infuriating.

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

0.0£ at your local library.

Hawk ,

Ah yes, libraries. Those mega buildings with every book on Earth inside…

pacmondo ,

You’re right. Since they don’t have every book ever written, why bother even looking?

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ,

Do your libraries not have a system to request books from other libraries? Not trying to be a jerk, I just have looked for some obscure things before and sometimes they had to be requested from other libraries.

Kodachrome ,
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https://search.worldcat.org/ is a good inter-library search site. My librarians use it (among other things, I'm sure) to find books/DVDs to acquire for me on ILL, but since the site is public sometimes I just do the search for them and send them a link to what I want when I submit a hold request.

BearOfaTime , (edited )

Lol.

Oh, yes let’s let perfection be the enemy of good.

It’s a rare thing I can’t get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anything educational and it’s there.

I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I’m talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It’s 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.

It’s one of dozens I’ve ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

The picture shows ISBN 9781784708276

I search this to get the title: “Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures”

I see £, so I’m going to assume it’s the UK. I picked Manchester as a city to search.

I search the book.

Seven 2021 versions, three 2020 versions, and audio book are available.

then_three_more ,

Which means even if it’s not available in OPs local library they could go to their library and get it on an interlibrary loan.

prayer ,

Based and librarypilled

tomi000 ,

fyi OP said theyre from another country. Not that it makes other points made invalid.

Klear ,

Found two copies in the Municipal Library of Prague. This is not some super-obscure title.

tomi000 ,

I dont doubt that, but saying that its readily available assuming OP lives in the country where the book comes from is not necesarily true

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

Everytime i have been unable to find a book in the library i have asked the librarian and had it brough in from another library. i dont think there has ever been a book i wanted they didnt have somewhere in the chain

then_three_more , (edited )

If the shipping is more than 99p it would have been cheaper for you to buy it new.

www.waterstones.com/book/…/9781784708276

I can also see multiple options for second hand between £5-£7.

Or as others have said, there’s the library.

It was your choice to pay near original price + shipping for second hand

Digestive_Biscuit ,
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I’m curious, why are you putting the £ symbol after the number and not before?

ElCanut OP ,

I’m sorry I’m not English so I’m used to Euros, I wasn’t sure if the £ was supposed to be before or after

Taiatari ,

Bought where on the internet? I think that context is quite relevant tbh.

Wizard_Pope ,
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The price printed on it says 12.99 but yeah that is bullshit. They could not even be bothered to remove the sticker.

Kecessa ,

That was the price when new though

Welcome to capitalism!

gbin ,

“one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” almost to the letter.

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

Well yeah that is why it’s bull

BraveSirZaphod ,
@BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social avatar

This behavior is literally millennia older than capitalism.

skullgiver ,
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    Wizard_Pope ,
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    I could see it if the book was new and just being resold. But I gathered tgat it is used from the post and the text

    ElCanut OP ,

    X10 markup on a product you bought from a charity is not a reasonable price imo

    ma11en ,

    Could be worse, they may have been gifted the book from someone that stole it from the shop.

    eskimofry ,

    Then you should have not bought it

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