I Was An eBay Voldemort (A Hilarious Account Of Auctioning The Last "Harry Potter" Tome Alert)

National Review ^ | 07/19/2007 | Will Collier

[goldstategop]

A hilarious account of a conservative's trying to auction off on eBay the yet to be released final "Harry Potter" tome, Deathly Hallows. He made a tidy profit and ended up ordering another copy of the book from a discount publisher where he had bought the first one.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[badpacifist]

skanky

[weegee]

Hmm. I’d like to see an article on DeepDiscount’s willingness to share customer information with corporations.

I’ve been a customer for years and this appalls me.

They run a virtual 50% off retail pricing on DVDs twice a year but what are they telling the companies about my buying habits, name, address, etc. and how willing are they to give out my phone number?

[Abathar]

Kudos to the guy, I would have done the exact same thing if given the chance.

[CDHart]

Went to Deep Discount to check the price of a particular book that I just ordered from Amazon.com. Deep Discount's price was actually about $2.00 higher than Amazon.

Carolyn

[caver]

Good for him!

[netmilsmom]

I heard yesterday on the radio that in order to carry the book, a retailer had to promise not to sell them early. In fact not ever to disclose whether they had them in or not.

DeepDiscount was in deep doodoo with shipping early. I don’t think they did this willingly. It was either, tell all or Scholastic Books would own them.

[netmilsmom]

Yeah, but with all luck, you would have had it early.

That’s worth it, isn’t it?

(I’m so glad I never got into these)

[netmilsmom]

>> The Associated Press ran a story about the book’s release, noted my ad, and falsely claimed that I’d declined to respond to a query. That’s a lie: <<

I suspect it isn’t, but the lie was from the AP woman who said said she was from “Scholastic Books”

[Manic_Episode]

First I would’ve called in sick for work and read the book non-stop until finished, then and only then I would’ve set the buy-it-now price at a grand.

[EmilyGeiger]

Ping. :(

[Xenalyte]

Ping!

I am hoping that my copy doesn’t arrive before we leave for crochet class. It’ll be WAY hard to put down.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

AP reporting = Fake, but Accurate.

[beyondashadow]

Ping

[netmilsmom]

My niece walked into Walmart at Christmas time and heard an announcement that they had four Wiis.

She bought one and made a $250.00 profit on E-Bay.

[retrokitten]

HP PING!

(Don’t worry- there are no spoilers!)

[BibChr]

The Associated Press ran a story about the book’s release, noted my ad, and falsely claimed that I’d declined to respond to a query. That’s a lie: Even as I write this an hour or so after the AP’s story, I have not been contacted by them in any way

Well now, there's a shocker.

[BibChr]

...like somebody walking out of a theater in 1980 and telling a then-eleven-year-old me that Darth Vader was Luke’s father

He's what?!!

[Filo]

Self ping for later.

[bobbyd]

I prefer knitting