[Info-vax] What is VMS?

[seasoned_geek]

On Dec 20, 1:22 pm, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:40:11 -0800, seasoned_geek wrote:
> > Nobody with the tiniest shred of ethics would even consider doing
> > business with Amazon.com, and now you have a shining example as to why.
>
> Crap. Why? It's an open, free market...isn't that the American dream?
>
> It's a third party seller using the Amazon shop. If it was in print,
> Amazon would sell it at list price or below. No one is forced to pay that
> price.
>
> > It would be interesting to see what happens if someone actually was dim
> > witted enough to order from Amazon.com since I would never fill such an
> > order.
>
> Why would you? Someone is selling their used copy.
>
> > with ask.com
> >http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minimum-you-need-to-know-to-be-an-
>
> openvms-application-developer-roland-hughes/1007784093
>
> > with google
> >http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minimum-you-need-to-know-to-be-an-
>
> openvms-application-developer-roland-hughes/1007784093
>
> > and it actually shows the $90 price in the little snippet
>
> So, they have old stock; presumably Amazon sold all theirs and you got
> the royalties.
>
> --
> Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
>  http://www.mirrorservice.org
>
> *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor


Amazon never sold for me because I don't allow them to have any of my
titles, period.

What you tend to find in those "private" seller shops they list are a
bunch of scam artists which list obscure technical books for massive
markup then "hope" to purchase them if an order ever comes in.  That
and 3 guys in India using the company Xerox Docutech scanning every
page of a copy they company bought for them selling it with a hand
glued on back.