# Harry Potter sales

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-sales/412795>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-sales/412795 "2007-07-23T01:41:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-sales/412795/41 "2007-07-26T19:03:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]  
Stuff it.  
[/QUOTE]

Cafe Society, comrade, not the Pit. Ratchet it back a bit, please.

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**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-sales/412795/42 "2007-07-26T22:29:15Z")

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I can still feel the frustration I had several years ago when one of Jean Auel’s long-awaited books came out. My local bookstore ran out of copies the first hour. I think I had to wait about a month for a copy. The next time, I purchased a $5.00 “pre-buy” card from Hastings, only to be told that “it doesn’t mean we save you a copy” (WTF?) and of course, they had sold out with no more expected for more than a week! I had to go climb up a managers ass to get a refund. So, after I found Harry Potter, I’ve been pre-ordering ever since. Maybe there are plenty of books to go around, but I know for a fact that there’s one on hold just for me.

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