The one that annoys me is tit-for-tat feedback - someone's a crap buyer/seller but gets legitimate bad feedback so retaliates. That's where my two negatives come from!
If you want to see an "interesting" tit-for-tat ebayer, look at umb61. They sell crap - badly printed and bound photocopies of old magazine reports which they claim are "reference books". And if you point out that their stuff is crap, they leave vituperative negative feedback.
I think they work on the hope that (A) their repro is so f---ing awful that nobody can tell what they've ripped off ;) (B) most of the publishers of the magazines they reprint from have long gone. (C) they're dealing in such small volumes that nobody cares.
I've never unilaterally boycotted a publisher before, Unique are the first I've ever decided are nothing more than ripoff merchants. For how to do reprint stuff legitimately and well, look at Brooklands Books who are highly respected in their field.
Unique also had a delightful habit of releasing cash-in compilations of crap with a similar title to "proper" books that had just been released..... lovely people indeed :(
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If you want to see an "interesting" tit-for-tat ebayer, look at umb61. They sell crap - badly printed and bound photocopies of old magazine reports which they claim are "reference books". And if you point out that their stuff is crap, they leave vituperative negative feedback.
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(A) their repro is so f---ing awful that nobody can tell what they've ripped off ;)
(B) most of the publishers of the magazines they reprint from have long gone.
(C) they're dealing in such small volumes that nobody cares.
I've never unilaterally boycotted a publisher before, Unique are the first I've ever decided are nothing more than ripoff merchants. For how to do reprint stuff legitimately and well, look at Brooklands Books who are highly respected in their field.
Unique also had a delightful habit of releasing cash-in compilations of crap with a similar title to "proper" books that had just been released..... lovely people indeed :(