TechnoworcesterSorry. How much is a book?
I would do this to incentivize shoppers to take as many as possible. Like at a charity shop that needs to make room for a sizable donation or just to churn the shelves a little.
The sign is still pretty amusing tho.
This was outside a charity shop. š
100 old karens with nothing to do must have argued that they are entitled to one book for .50
Apeman42100 old Karens agree: āWeād like to speak to the manager.ā
A class action Karen
We do an annual charity book collection and we do this towards the end of the day too. We really donāt want any books left if we can avoid it.
ChrisĀ£2.50
OmegaMouseAny good books in there?
Got myself a life changing book.
ddashButā¦ did you pay Ā£2.50 for it?
If not, they can now sell it for Ā£2.50
Did you pay VAT on it?
gedaliyahUsed books are hard to move. This is one reason why most libraries donāt take donations. These sales are for clearing shelves more than for making profit.
Not hard to move. Almost impossible to move.
In my shelf I apart from some old leather bound books from my grandfather (Churchils world history, complete Hamsund) and CE and hard cover 40k books I have nothing but paper trash
People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.
I use the Norwegian finn.no (listings of everything from old books to cars to houses. Norway is such a small market that one service covers all)
Itās perfect for selling used (but little used) baby and child stuff. I have also bought a lot off Lego Duplo.
Speaking for myself, Iām too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I canāt trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.
My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. Itās been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parentās walls every few months.
A library I used to use would put old books for sale outside. If someone came in to pay for them, great, but if they happened to mysteriously disappear, that was fine too.
MildlyConfusing
šMaximum DerekšClassic BOGF sale.
darkdemizeBuy one get fucked?
Iām sure they had to do this because they had too many people asking āhow much for 3 booksā.
That or just because funny.
NichtEliasThose seem to be really cool books, or at least the box theyāre in thinks so
TrackinDaKrakenIāve transitioned to digital books. I still have a few physical books on my shelf that are special to me, but digital books are just too damn convenient. (And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)
(And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)
Simple batteries can be made from readily available materials post apocalypse such as potatoes or citrus fruits like lemons. Youād need a fair amount of them for any appreciable time. After the fall of civilization, such required foods would be considered offerings to the gods to grant the knowledge stored on your Kindle long after its Lithium battery bit the dust. This would be until humans are able to make lead acid gravity cells, which again, isnāt that difficult. They arenāt very portable, but if you are just needing to run the device you donāt need it to be.
It makes sense to me, but they could have put the āĀ£2.50 totalā instead of just āĀ£2.50ā to make it more clear.
rigattiA book is 2.50.
Two books are 2.50.
[deleted] in lemmyThree books sre 2.50.
Four books are 2.50.
Five books are 2.50
robolemmySix books are Ā£10.00
Wouldny 6 books be Ā£5.00?
Six books are $5.00
Seven books are Ā£5.00
Eight books are ā¬5.00
Purple_Gameboy69Nine books are ā¬7,50
renzhexiangjiaobuy one get 4 free
Donāt say it that way because people will take 5 and trash 4 of them just because. Labelling it this way, people will actually take 2 if they only want 2.
f(x) = 2.50 for x in {1,2,ā¦,5}
They should have put that on the sign. Functional notation is universally understood, after all.
not.
Maybe a plot then.
Seems pretty clear.
This is one of those times where seeing it all written out feels redundant, but you know if those examples werenāt there people would be asking if one book cost Ā£0.5.
That would be me
Guarantee it wasnāt written out first until they had people argue with cashiers about it
psychOdelic she/herWhat if the book is missing pages?
Ā£3.50 for asking
thereās no such thing as a Ā£
You pronounce it as āfletā because itās a combination of f, L, t and E. And if you think thatās ridiculous, wait until you hear about the British Imperial system.
I would like to subsribe to British Facts, please
The British imperial system invades other countries, makes them use pounds and feet, and then leaves.
I canāt vouch for the truth of this as I just saw online posts about it too.
But I saw in Iraq, thereās a book market that just leaves most of their books outside because āThe Reader doesnāt steal, and the thief doesnāt readā
But I saw in Iraq
We all saw, multiple times now. Fuckinā reposts š
I found out why they want to get rid of them fast:
that just means that those are really cool books
itās marketing
whatās cooler than being cool?
Perishable books?
yeah ill take one order of 2 books, and uhh another order of three books