Sandi, You might find a lot of used out of print materials on Amazon for ridiculous prices. Anything with the tag "new or used" on Amazon isnt actually sold by Amazon, but rather by a third party. Small businesses that make their money reselling items on amazon use automated listing programs. These programs scan amazon for similar items to determine a baseline and then regularly adjust the price based on the market. When there are only two or three copies of an item available, and ALL of them are from automated listing agents, each agent will use the other agents estimates to form a new price, and then the items get caught in a feedback loop, resulting in these rather strange prices. As soon as one of the humans responsible for the agent intervenes, or a different human lists a copy at a reasonable price, the whole thing fixes itself.
In summary, this is probably a case of computer stupidity, and if you wait for a couple months, you'll see the price return to a reasonable level suddenly. Never buy lace books or other out of print books from Amazon unless you can verify that you are getting a decent price. Don't trust the actual listings to be a measure of value. Katelyn Schreyer On Friday, March 23, 2012, Sandi Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > Yesterday I was horrified to hear from somone that Amazon are offering used > copies of booklets, containing my work, for ridiculously silly prices...one > being about £75 and the other about £55. Please, do not buy them!!! > I can't believe anyone would seriously consider paying those prices, but > just in case they are having a moment of madness, I would like to > assure them that I will be re-publishing my patterns. They will easily, and > affordably, be available from me directly. > If you would like any information about availability, or indeed anything > else, I can always be contacted by email: [email protected] or via my > website: www.sandiwoods.com > With best wishes, > Sandi. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent > -- Katelyn Schreyer [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
