Just Not Right

[firstfrost]

• I ordered a paperback from someone at paperbackswap, and they sent me a VHS tape! We don't even have a VCR!
• Crusades In Europe, a memoir by President Dwight D. Eisenhower about World War II, is listed at Amazon.com under (among other things) "Science Fiction". Admittedly, alternate-history WW2 is a classic science fiction genre, but I think we can accept this one as real-history rather than alternate.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

What's the videotape? Perhaps I can save you shipping...

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

"Somewhere in Time". I'm told it's a good movie. :)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I don't think we need to own it though. Oh well!

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

The science fiction thing is wacky. You could write to them and point out their error, and they might fix it. I think I managed to get them to fix a listing once.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I submitted it as a comment on the page. Unfortunately, "category" isn't one of the easy things to flag as needing fixing, so I don't know how long it will take for the suggestion to wend its way through their checking-stuff department.

[twe.livejournal.com]

A video tape! Was the sender just having a really bad day?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The sender has a bunch of videotapes posted on his bookshelf (which are strictly against the rules), so I think it's more that he's terminally unclear on the concept of what a book is.

[twe.livejournal.com]

D'oh! Have you complained to the people who run the place?

On a related topic, I see you have the Viscount of Adrilanka books and Harrowing the Dragon on your PBS wish list. I can loan you those if you're just wanting to read them, rather than obtain copies for your library.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The people who run the place explicitly don't want to have to adjudicate every "They sent me something that wasn't what I wanted!" dispute and basically say "try to resolve it yourself first". So I sent a message to the guy saying hey, you sent me a VHS tape, which is against the rules and definitely not the paperback you had listed, and I reported him under the forum posting of "report people with inappropriate stuff for trade". That's sufficient for day one. :)

I would happily borrow Harrowing the Dragon; Viscount of Adrilanka I want to keep (and in fact just picked up Phoenix Guards and 500 Years After from PBS when we realized that the copies we thought we had, had been yours. :) )