@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Post #4476581
2026-08-03 02:00 UTC
Delfina Manor, who runs Good Reading Secondhand Books in Benalla, Victoria, said she received orders from Zoom Books in May amounting to three full boxes, but had to write to the company and ask them not to order in such volume again.
“They ordered, paid in advance, and they didn’t quibble over the postage … [but] it would have been about 30 to 40 books, and so finding them, packing them, making sure you hadn’t missed one out … It was just driving me nuts,” Manor said.
Wut. Are you a business or a hobby? Actually, even most hobbyists I know are more detail oriented than that.
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@Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2026-08-03 03:14
Typically both, where the business is more like (a) their legitimization of the collecting to family and friends and (b) a way to help themselves let go of books slowly, knowing the point of books is not to sit on shelves. So an over large order of their books that won’t be read by a person is exactly the worst possible case, rather than a boon to their business.