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

[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. :) )