• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Rofl. Imagine being mildly infuriated that someone marked up a bargain bin purchase by $10 to cover their time and effort to make it available to you to buy from the comfort of your home.

    Why don’t you spend your own day rummaging through thrift stores for it next time?

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      We shit on ‘upselling’ all the time. If you cleaned those pages, pressed them back and touched up the spine of the book, sure. But I’d be annoyed too if there was a 500% markup on a resale of used material