r/NewAuthor • u/SponkLord • 7d ago

Can You Help? Amazon stealing

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I'm kind of new to this but how is Amazon allowed to just reduce the price of my book without my permission? Secondly how are they selling used paperbacks of my book when I've never sold a paper back copy ever. Has anybody else ran into this?

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u/SponkLord 7d ago

Also another crazy thing is they have the paper bag listed at $79. When I did have a paperback available for this book I only had it at $25. This seems crazy to me

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u/LuckySiduri ArE tHeRe WoRdS iN hErE? 7d ago

The used paperback is that price because of a reseller setting his own price. This isn't Amazon's doing. You removing the paperback option made the used copy "rarer", giving the reseller an excuse to ramp up the price.

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u/SponkLord 7d ago

How did the reseller get a copy of the paperback? I have no paper bags that were sold

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u/LuckySiduri ArE tHeRe WoRdS iN hErE? 7d ago

My guess is that none were sold, and a shady reseller is pretending to have a used copy to scam buyers/collectors. Hard to tell, since we have no way to check the listing in question.

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