OK, so there I am on BarnesandNoble.com, ordering things for my sister (who got a gift certificate for Christmas, but doesn’t have a computer).
Turns out the stuff she chose (by browsing our local B&N store) was less expensive online, so she had a few bucks left over.
OK, call me horrible, but I decided that I would try to find a cheap little book to buy for myself with the leftover money…
I’m a little bitter, you see, about ALWAYS having to be the Designated Internet Flunkie in my family (for example, EVERY TIME my mom is taking a trip, she will call me at work and keep me on the phone for half an hour searching online for plane tickets for her, then end up calling a travel agent anyway because she’s afraid to actually purchase the tix via the internet), so I decided I deserved a little “tip” for my services. And it was only, like, six bucks…
But I digress.
Anyway, there I am at B&N.com, and I decide to see if maybe they have One Monster After Another, a book I LOVED! as a kid (I mean, I’ve only got six bucks to work with, and kids’ books are cheap…).
Turns out it’s out of print, but I can get it from a dealer via the B&N site, so YIPPEE! Off I go a-clickin’ to the list of 11 available “dealer copies” of One Monster After Another, thinking, “Well, if I have to pay $25 or $30, I’ll still get my little six-dollar discount…”
Oooh, and as it turns out, I can get a hardback copy…
FOR THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. :eek: :eek: :eek:
OK, granted, that’s the hardback price, and the highest hardback price at that, but $375 for a children’s book originally printed in 1974??? That’s, like, a hundred dollars a page!!!
I screamed so loudly that my boss came running in to make sure I wasn’t being attacked by garden moles… So I basically had to explain to him that I was putzing around on the internet instead of working.
Yep, I’ll be getting that promotion any day now. Maybe it’ll allow me to afford that book…
Sheesh.
