Too Good to Be True
Cyber Monday has come to a close. My adrenaline started flowing yesterday around 8 pm when I saw Half Price Books Marketplace would be offering free shipping on everything. I pulled up my Amazon Wishlist and started searching. I was delighted to find many books for 99 cents!
The endless possibilities of books I could get for thrift store prices shipped to my home started flowing...was this really going to work. When the deal went live at 9 pm I had 15 books in my cart and clicked BUY. The deal cleared and I think I uttered to Wyatt I can't believe it and I will probably be up all night searching. Alas the dream was short lived and as I continued to search all the prices that should 
have been 99 cents were 4.99. (they had added the shipping cost to the book prices making the deal a scam in my opinion)
Wyatt said I should be thankful for getting the 15 books at rock bottom prices. I am giddy thinking about all these books currently in route to my house from around the country, but I can't help but be disappointed about all the ones that got away.
On another book related note, Zoraida and I have gathered all our Christmas books together in baskets for this month. I have amassed quite a few mostly from thrifting. Here is the list:
- Messiah: The Wordbook for the Oratorio, George Frideric Handel
- A Christmas Testament, Phillip Kopper
- The Christmas Day Kitten, James Herriot
- The Snow Tree, Caroline Repchuk
- Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-up, Robert Sabuda
- Lift the Flap Nativity, Allia Zobel-Nolan
- The Newborn King, Cindy Robertson
- The Christmas Cross, Max Lucado
- Frosty the Snowman, Hallmark book read by grandma
- The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
- Journey to Bethlehem: the story of the first Christmas, Dorothy Van Woerkom
- One Wintry Night, Ruth Bell Graham
- Religious Christmas Stories for Children, an Ideals publication
- The Carols of Christmas, an Ideals publication
- Nativity, Winston Press
- A Child's Book of Christmas Carols, Illustrated by Masha
- The Kingfisher Book of Classic Christmas Stories, selected by Ian Whybrow
- Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book
- Usborne Lift-the-flap Nativity
Do you have a favorite Christmas book?
2 comments:
Make sure to complain. I complained to both Half Price Books and Alibris (Alibris runs the marketplace). Alibris has refunded the $3.99 they added to the price of twoof my books. I am still complaining though as I had wanted to order 11 other books but did not because I could not afford them at the scam price. I will post again when I finish negotiating with them.
Thanks so much for the advice. I did contact them and the customer service has been great. I was refunded the extra shipping cost I had and also allowed to place another order for the books I wanted sans shipping. Very impressed with them!
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