# Does anyone else here use Alibris, in any capacity?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 15, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619 "2022-12-15T23:24:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/1 "2022-12-15T23:24:20Z")

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Alibris is a smaller-than-Amazon website where third-party vendors like me can sell things like books and movies. Anyway, I’m unable to log on, and I contacted them via e-mail and of course got a generic message back saying “We are experiencing extremely high volume at this time…”

I’m just wondering if anyone else here uses them, and has experienced the same thing, possibly due to server issues or a regional outage?

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**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/2 "2022-12-15T23:34:27Z")

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I use them to buy books when I don’t use Powells. I think you may be running into Christmas.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/3 "2022-12-15T23:35:42Z")

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Possibly, but it’s saying that my username and password don’t exist.

I rarely sell anything there, and mostly use it for things I can’t list on Amazon.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/4 "2022-12-16T00:53:31Z")

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I buy there, but had no luck at all selling there.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/5 "2022-12-16T01:50:38Z")

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That’s why I use Alibris, for things I can’t sell on Amazon, whether it’s not listed on Amazon, or is gated there.

And my own Alibris is up and running again. 🙂

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-use-alibris-in-any-capacity/976619/6 "2022-12-16T03:17:19Z")

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and $20 a year!, but they do have good prices