In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:

Alas, the internet seems to have killed off being able to find
old-fashioned specialist secondhand book/mag dealers who will talk to
you and accept payment via "cheque in the post". So since I can't get
to audiojumbles, fairs, etc, I find it hard to get issues of the old
magazines.

I'm afraid all this sort of thing has gone to Ebay these days. Something
my brother won't accept either. ;-)

I can understand why professional second-hand book dealers use the net,
ebay, etc. But what seems strange is that they now neglect simply enabling
the *added* custom which they could still get simply by making their
contact info available for people who want to buy/sell by other means.

As your comment confirms, I'm not the only person who'd buy that way if
they could be bothered to realise it.

Similarly, their attending fairs, jumbles, etc, make sense. But it seems
odd for them to then fail to allow potential customers to buy from them via
post, and advertising their contact details, etc, on their websites. Again
I can see why the organisers of *fairs* don't want the dealers to bypass
them, but why don't the dealers make their contact details available by
other means? Having your own website is cheap and easy enough these days.

Is it just lazyness, or a lack of thought, I wonder? Or do they find it
easier to dodge tax this way, maybe?

Jim

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