Of course, if you don't read Chinese you can always come down market and enjoy an English version for around $23.
Fun with retail. No doubt.
2.24.2013
Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. My second book, on sale for $1999.98 at Amazon...
Of course, if you don't read Chinese you can always come down market and enjoy an English version for around $23.
Fun with retail. No doubt.
7 comments:
That's hilarious even if the seller made a mistake and should have listed the book in RMB, it'd still cost about $300 USD.
Kirk, I'd say you've hit rock star status as a writer.
Missy MWAC will be so proud of me. Maybe I'll even get invited to the Chinese version of Creative Live...
It should be the seller made a mistake and I saw the book in Chinese webside the list price is 49 RMB.
Maybe the rest of his books are underpriced?
I think its clear that your paying for the photos on the front. The shot of your son is obviously selling the book at $1500, the book is only $15, the boy band is -$250, and the other shots just push it up.
I see this a lot with out-of-print academic titles. It seems that many Amazon marketplace sellers use a relatively primitive supply-demand bot to do their pricing automatically; it checks to see how many other copies are available on a couple of different websites, and then prices accordingly. Seems like a lot of them are tuned so that if supply is abundant they price at 1 cent cheaper than the cheapest copy, but if it's rare or unique they go for some completely unrealistic price that's several times the low offer, I guess hoping there'll be two people who both really desperately want it?
There's a book I keep in my Amazon wishlist that I'd happily pay $100 for a copy of. There's one used seller that has had it for years; at times when theirs is the only copy I can find anywhere on the web, it's $9,999.99, and the rest of the time it seems to be exactly 3.5x the lowest price.
I guess maybe that's a good business practice for the majority of third party and used books, which are abundant, and the sellers just don't notice when it prices them completely out of reality on a few titles?
Google Expensive Insect book to read about this phenomenon. Yours will look like a bargain
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