Thursday, April 26, 2018

Monday, April 23, 2018

Do many people buy books on Amazon and then return them after flipping through them? Does Amazon care? - 1

It is kind of hard to decide if you would really like to spend time reading a book with a short introduction that you can view on the website and with all the fake reviews now on everything on amazon it is hard to decide.
I asked an amazon rep before if I could just purchase the kindle versions and look them over in 30 days instead of an actual physical book being shipped to me instead, but they told me that kindle only has a 7 day return, but if they shipped me books to look over, I could return those within 30 days. But it doesn't make sense does it? Why they do this I wonder?
Added (1). I just ordered (4) books that were around $ 50 each on Amazon and looked at them and flipped through them, to see if they are something I Really want to spend time reading and decideded to keep one and sent the other (3) back… What they would do with them now? I would consider them to be in "Like New" or "Very good " condition still. What about the author, do they pay for this? How much?
Added (2). I mean what I did above is not really much different than people going into a book store and sitting down in a chair and flipping through 5-6 books and then picking out 1 or 2.right? I think the damage I did to the books was not much more than they would do. I mean many books that would or could buy in a book store were flipped through and could tell?

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