Book sales

Many Library sale organizers have a set of rules similar to the ones listed below.
A small percentage of greedy and aggressive, greedy dealers have made some Book or Library sales very unpleasant for everyone. By implementing a few simple rules a lot of the trouble should be avoided.
A typical list of Book sale rules might read:
1. Places in line may not be held with boxes, bags etc.
2. No holding places in line for other people or "line jumping."
3. All customers will work with one box or bag at a time
4. All items placed in boxes or bags must be bought.
5. No carrying books away from the tables/hoarding books to evaluate later.
6. Cell phones and scanners may be used to scan books only at the tables.
6. Boxes removed from display tables will be tallied as purchases.
7. No strollers, boxes or other containers large enough to block aisles.
8. Children are not allowed in the preview sale.
9. Books set aside must be bought. No setting books aside/hoarding for later consideration.
10. People who engage in any form of unacceptable behavior like: Pushing, fighting or bullying will not be checked out and will be asked to leave.
The Library book sale used to be a very laid-back, civilized and genteel affair.
Traditionally book dealers have paid a fee to attend a preview sale that is usually held a day or two before the main Library sale which is open to the general public. These book dealers at the preview sale used to spend several hours browsing the titles in order to add to their inventory.
The Internet, online book selling and the cell phone has changed this for ever.
Many dealers now line up hours before the Book or Library sale, when the doors open they charge in and are using their cell phones or handheld scanners to look up the prices of as many books as they possibly can in the first few minutes of the sale. Often times the book sale is very similar to a Black Friday stampede.
A few of the less scrupulous book dealers have developed a few tactics to give them the edge and increase their profits from the Book sale. These often include: leaving a bag or a box with their name on many hours or even a day before the Library sale, they then show up 15 minutes before the doors open cutting into the front of the line to the place they saved with box or a bag. Just before the doors open a half a dozen or of their friends, family or co-workers may join them. The other people in line realize too late that these bags and boxes have been used to hold places in line for a large group people.
When the doors open a few of the more devious book dealers will rush in and target what they think are the more valuable books and media on sale. They scoop anything that looks like it might be valuable and stuff it into their bag or box, these are then hauled off into a corner and covered with a blanket or sheet, maybe with one of their buddies to protector them. They then rush back to the tables and scoop up as many more valuable looking books as they possibly can. With all of their hoarded books in the corner these dealers then relax a little and start to scan the barcodes of the books remaining on the tables. When they have satisfied themselves that there are no more books of any real value left on the tables then, they will turn their attention on the books they hoarded earlier. They will usually sit there and scan them into to a keep pile and a discard pile, the discard pile is usually four or five times bigger than their keep pile. Sometimes these unscrupulous book dealers will make a half-hearted attempt to put their reject books back when they got them from but usually not. They often just abandon them in the corner and leave it to the book sale volunteers to put them back into the correct category.
Another widespread tactic that these book dealers make use of is to make a selection of valuable books and then secrete them somewhere in the sale room, retrieving them on the last day of the sale for the bag sale where the remnants of the sale are sold off for a couple of dollars a bag.
Another book dealers ploy is to volunteer for the library in order to gain access to the valuable books before the sale. This situation usually doesn't last very long at all because it has the effect of essentially killing the book sale. When other book dealers realize that the books have been cherry picked they are far less likely to return for the next sale. Having book dealers volunteering for the library and buying the more valuable donated books for pennies on the dollar may even jeopardize the not for profit status of the friends of the library organization.
A lot of Library book sales have set aside an area where customers can leave their books to be tallied and reserved while they continue to shop . This is a really good idea because some of the more unscrupulous book dealers will steal other book dealers unguarded selections.

Some dealers frequently line up for many hours before a sale. Most book sales allow two or three people to enter through double doors at the same time. If there are 100 people in line for the sale and three people a second enter, then the last few people in line will be going through the doors less than a minute after the first people went in. The dealers would have to be very good at what they do or have some very specific titles in mind for this one minute or even in many cases 30 seconds to make any difference whatsoever especially as they may have waited outside in line for a number of hours.
The unfortunate thing is that most dealers really don't want to hoard books and they really don't want to leave bags and boxes outside the sale to hold their place in line but to remain competitive they have to utalize some of these methods where there are no rules in place, to prevent others from doing so.
Happily for the sale organizers and the other dealers these unprincipled objectionable characters who have been drawn to book dealing on the Internet by the lure of the quick buck or easy money do not usually stay with it.
A fitting definition of most newbie online book dealers is: Someone who was doing something else for a living last year and someone who will be doing something else for a living next year.

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