really
cheeeep used books from ABE
BOOKS!
Please click on this URL ABES BOOKS and keep both this article and that site open. YOU AT ABES NOW? OK, Click on 'advanced search' button up at the top of ABE's main page as THERE you get to stipulate 'vendors in USA only". (You don't want to pay freight from UK, France, Germany, it's way way high. New Zealand is like caviar prices.) Plus when you get a list of books & vendors together, you don't want hundreds of foreign vendors cluttering it up. So before a search, stipulate USA only.. THEN put in the author's name.
Just while we practice, PUT in the name of an author you love or a subject.
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs. Carl Jung. Something or someone whom you really
love knowing about. A LIST of about a dozen vendors with the author
will come up. Or the title if you put title in. Or both. Now, SEEK the
AREA where it says book vendor's personal data -- his store name
and
stuff on that page where your BOOK HAS BEEN FOUND.
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Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward (ISBN: 0673188647)
Jeffrey S Young; Steve Jobs
Bookseller: Marion Meyer Rare Books (not here,
this is not it)
(East Hampton, NY, U.S.A.) (this isn't
it either)
Bookseller Rating: 4-star rating
Price: US$ 1.00
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Quantity: 1 Shipping within U.S.A.:
US$ 6.50
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Book Description: Scott, Foresman and Company,Glenview, IL,1988, 1988.
Hardcover, 440 pp, Near Fine in very good jacket. Bookseller Inventory
#
ABE-149783816 (SOME of that is what you want
to send the vendor. price, title
ISBN and inventory NUMBER.) DO A CUT PASTE into
an email which you
SAVE AS A DRAFT. You aren't sending it yet. Save
in case you get a crash!:
Now, NOTE where it SAYS: Bookseller
& Payment Information and it's a live link, an URL
THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT!
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HIT IT. THEN a new page arrives. On BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE it says View Bookseller's Homepage]
HIT THAT. (don't actually hit it in my article here as I put my url in there but i'm just giving you a sample)
YOU WILL then be carried by magic carpet to the guy's HOMEPAGE and put on your specs as there, you look for an EMAIL ADDIE. HIS webdesigner's idea of a website has come up. HALF the vendors' homepages have no 'contact' or 'email' on them. Those are the guys with shopping carts and robots. SHUN THEM. Some vendors do not have an e-mail visible. They are robotized and you do not want them and they don't want you. THEY don't want emailed orders, at all. THEY want you to use UGH shopping carts. . But their ROBOTS make you pay 4.99 a book for shipping! So shun them. HUMANS are much more fair. If I can get a human I will end up with S&H for a buck a book or less if paperback.
WHEN you click on his email, generally your own mail client will crank
up a letter form. If not, you crank one up.
PUT THE WHOLE BOOK DESCRIPTION IN IT.
STEVE JOBS, 1$ etc etc.
445 pgs, pub 1995, etc etc hardcover CUT OUT THE REST.
Now, STICK the vendor's address in your address book, ... info@MEYER
BOOKS.COM
Or whatever...wait a minute. NO! You
don't need to save the guy's addie to address book YET but you sure WILL
if he answers favorably. (By the way
that book happens to be more costly, so don't go looking for it. It's over
a hundred bucks. It's a rare one.)
Now, --I WRITE THE SUBJECT LINE of my email. "Dear MEYERS BOOKS...always using the whole book store name, as later your email client machine will be able to summon up EMAILS BY COLLATING BY SUBJECT, SIZE, DATE OR ...SENDER! It will if you use netscape version 4.7 which you should keep on desktop as a browser for book ordering, due to this phenomenal collation ability. You can line up all vendors by subject line if you use thes ame salutation "DEAR MEYER BOOKS" or "DEAR NOBLE BOOKS, DEAR ORANGETREE BOOKS, etc, all alphabetized. All in the "DEAR" or D section.
Now, in the body of the EMAIL "Dear Meyers Books,
I'm a senior who can read 4 books a week, have
no cable, just rabbit ear tv, no car to get to
library, rattling around alone here, grandkids in other states, and well,
, I need books and I will be a great lifelong client, my lifetime, not
yours. Today, I would like to order a half dozen books, I pay by pay
pal, or personal check. And I send garden seeds exotic California stuff
take your pick at http://www.masterjules.net/seedlist2.htm
and you can wait to ship til check clears. (Hey this is all true, for me.
Your story may be diff. I CANNOT DRIVE, am stuck at home, no cable, just
rabbit ear tv. grandkids thousands of miles away, so many cats I can't
visit them, who'd take care of cats? " My story is not yours, but maybe
you don't have a library near you.
So I cut and paste in that small petition, next to my title list which I compose One by one. After a search of HIS STACKS. HOW?
See where it says "[More Books from this Seller]? CLICK ON IT. Into box, put that Carl Jung title "ANALYTICAL" if you recall it or just CARL JUNG as AUTHOR in the right space, see if they have any at a reasonable rate, Cut and paste the book description it if they do.
Carl Jung "Analytical Therapy"
Bookseller: thriftbooks.com
(Inventory # G0394708628I5N00 hardcover
4$ well, that's too costly for me.
To make reading my emails easier, I have Clipped out a lot of extraneous
info; You do a search on a title you'll see endless stuff, shape the books
in.etc.
HERE is what you leave in: HARD COVER or PAPER
BACK the price, author, title, ISBN and Inventory #
Now pick another five BOOKS
Pastime (ISBN: 0816153485)
Parker, Robert B.
Price: US$ 1.74
# 000544
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Hush Money (Spenser
Mystery Ser.) (ISBN: 0399144587)
Parker, Robert
: US$ 3.00
Inventory # 000871
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Playmates (ISBN: 0425120015)
Parker, Robert B.
Price: US$ 1.74
# 001194
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Exile ends in Glory:
Merton, Thomas paperback
Price: US$ 3.90
# 003743
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Write in at the end, "MERTON PAPERBACK THAT COSTLY? Could you give me a deal?Otherwise leave it off."
SEND THAT email OFF to the vendor and always BCC it to yourself. WHAT
YOU PUT IN THE SUBJCT LINE is real important as your EMAIL client hopefully
can collate by SUBJEcT LINE at will.
What this means is that soon you'll have a dozen letters that read,
in subject line :
DEAR MEYERS books
DEAR THRIFT BOOKS
DEAR HARVEST BOOKS
DEAR YOYOS BOOKS
WHY you need that is that a) HIS LETTER can be found later quite easily, just collate for 'D's' then the store name is alphabetized. You see hundreds of eltters with DEAR HARVEST DEAR YOYO go to DEAR MEYERS. b.) SECOND REASON: Months from now, you can get all your vendors letters lined up in a row by collating. The SUBJECT lines will be alphabetically collated, at least in NETSCAPE BROWSER VERSION 4.7 which I downloaded and use for all email, lists. I may browse with newer browsers (they surf the net way better) but THIS is the KING OF FREE EMAIL CLIENTS! And when you can collate by any feature, date, subject, sender, size, you can't get any more organized than that!
OK. Now, Wait a day or so. If the dude answers 'I only take orders on
my website," have a form letter you shoot back "I'm
a senior. Desperately need books, have only a rabbit ear TV, no car to
get tolibrary and Im Unschooled in this internet stuff. I was taught email,
zilch else. No one ever taught me to do shopping carts. I fill out forms,
hit the wrong button and lose all the form info or crash out and/or JAM
out and need to reboot. Also those pages are like looking down at
a map of tokyo. a maze, beyond this senior's powers. I was taught email
by a grandchild (this implies your grand kids are already adults)
and that's all I know how to do. I do read four books a week and I'd be
a good lifelong client, my life by the way, not yours!".
AND ALWAYS REPEAT THE ORDER FOR THE SIX BOOKS. WRITTEN out, cut paste.
PRETEND he answers and says FINE.
NOW, I tell him in front, "I would like to order cheapest shipping method, media mail (no 60c tracking fee), and if you need to know where I am to calculate this sum. I'm in zone 91335, so you can calc postage to me. If you can just charge me what the PO charges you, and wrap in grocery paper wi. tape, no box, no costly padded envelopes I'll be happy as I DO NOT COLLECT perfect, vintage BOOKS.... Then I'll order more. If not, I note that the Merton book costs way less at Universal Atheneum 1$ and SEASHELL has it for 79c". (OF course I don't buy there as they have ROBOTS ONLY but this vendor doesn't know about your shopping cart quirk. I hate them as I DO CRASH OUT losing a half hour of form fillout!) Then, ask the vendor, if you charge so much more , why would anyone come to your shop? " BTW Year in year out, I send exotic garden seeds, http://www.masterjules.net/seedlist2.htm Oddball seeds, lovely weird, rare, garden exotica, as a GIFT to all vendors so they'll remember me and charge me just PO prices for shipping. and I sign it, this way:
Signed, frugal granny who wrote website on cheap: http://www.masterjules.net/frugindex.htm
USUALLY then he answers me, 'yes you can order a half dozen." But be watchful, there can be another DIVERGENCE IN THE way YOU TWO think. He may say 3.99 for first book 2.99 thereafter. or he may say 3$ first book 1$ postage thereafter In former case, I write him back and say I can't go that high on S&H. Other vendors ship books for a dollar. Why can't you? And I sell that point with:
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I make my own freezer meals.
I make the cat eat rice
Haven't had real beef in yrs.
A burger'd be so nice
I haven't eaten out not once
in two or three decades
unless I take a sandwich
and find some leafy glade
My family is embarassed as
Mom rents a total SHACK.
They once came over for turkey
but the rats never came back!
I choose between a walk to store
and reading Potok and Descartes.
So I beg and implore you book man,
FORGET the HIGH shipping PART!
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It's true. My kids visit L.A. they won't come eat here. Too many cats
is the problem, not the cottage itself. Though it has a super shabby look.
True. Anyway, If you cut & paste some stored text, (I keep it in emails
subject line TEXT ORDERS, ) the whole deal is done real quick. You can
do four orders in 15 minutes when you're good, with searches to find the
5 books. YEP! Come over & watch me. I'm right here in the VALLEY to
the north of L.A. Zone 91335. And while you're here, I trade baby fruit
trees for potting soil bags. I trade crocosimia bulbs from south africa,
art deco, tall as your eye. I trade sago palm seeds, cycads. Blackberry
vines,etc. I do not trade cats. I get real attached to them!
VON BOYAGE and BON BOOK ON YA! Anita Sands Hernandez
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