/lit/ - Literature

Didn’t mean for it to turn :/

>>12481565
none

>>12481565
It's goodwill, they're 3 bucks apiece. If you're interested just grab them all.

>>12481565
All of them

>>12481565
Your camera lens is warped dumbass. I can see the curvature in the image when scrolling up and down on it.
Also, take all of them. Good will has really jacked up the price on their books and deserves to be robbed of any opportunity to profit off them. Literally more expensive than the Clearance Rack at Half Price Books. Fuck Goodwill.

I’m a broke collegefag, and I’ve already got two other books. I want to take two at most.

>>12481578
You say that like it's a good deal.
That's $24+ tax for all those books. That's not a good deal at all. Used hard covers like this should be 50 cents a piece, if that, especially from a place like Goodwill that recycles their shit if it isn't sold after X period of time. When they raised hard covers to $2/piece, I stopped buying books at good will completely.

those spines fall apart easily, i wouldn't buy any of them desu

>>12481594
The word you are looking for is "buy". To "take" means to skip that step, brainlet, which is honestly worth considering considering how much Goodwill jack's up their books. I used to talk with the manager and cut deals but many refuse to negotiate now. I would offer no more than $10 for that entire lot.

Erasmus

>>12481596
That's not how goodwill works. If it doesn't sell in the store they send it to the bins. If it doesn't sell at the bins then they send it to be pulped. Basically if you don't buy those and someone else doesn't they get turned into confetti. They cost that much because goodwill's operating costs are stupid high even when they hire the retards as slave labor. If you don't want to pay that much just go buy them used on Amazon instead of asking us for recommendations you fucking jew.

>>12481620
You're the Jew, justifying getting jewed for $3 fucking dollars for a beat up old book. That's more expensive than an actual used book store like half price would sell them for in their clearance section. They should be fortunate I'm taking it off their hands for even 50 cents. Whenever I have too many books, I try to give them away for absolutely nothing, and if I can't, I burn them. They obviously are faced with the same dilemma, although they get pulped instead of burned. It would have been easier for all parties involved, and ultimately cheaper, to just sell the books for 50 cents a piece. Instead, they want $3 a book, and they sit there for month after month, if not years. I refuse to support an organization that retarded. It's simple, lower the prices.

>>12481565
Montaigne for sure

>>12481565
Any one of those books are far better quality than all the ones at my Goodwill combined.

talk to the manager OP, offer $10 for the lot
theyll be happy to get rid ofthem

>>12481694
this

unironically Updike

>>12481684
Seconding

>>12481705
Unironically based.

Just asked and they’re telling me to pay full price :/ I think I’ll take Erasmus and the Aristotle.

Why post a thread like this? Have you been standing around in Goodwill for half an hour now waiting for enough replies to make up your mind?

>>12481797
Fuck them and buy none of them. They want to be like that, they can burn in hell.

This whole thread is full retard. Cicero will actually get you laid and get you rich and renowned. /lit/ is jam packed with pseuds.

>updike
Really? REALLY??

>>12481667
They sell them to the pulping company by the pound. After the labor of processing the book, which involves processing endless trash to find it, and the cost of the building, fees, and everything else it would literally be cheaper for them to sell the book to the pulping company directly than to even give your whiney ass the chance to buy it. Used book stores barely make money which is why most of them are shutting down or have you not noticed that they all go out of business? I worked at a goodwill for a few years and its tiring explaining how the store operates to simpleton cheapskates like you. Its not hard to understand. Its business. You're just a cheap entitled fuck. If you don't want to pay the money go pirate them online instead of bitching that you don't want to pay for them. Go be a whiney jew somewhere else. Or go and get signed up as a participant because you are clearly too brain disabled to hold a job for an actual human.

>>12481825
Yes

>>12481834
Also if the books are really only worth 50 cents then go buy them at the place selling them for that price. You're that guy who gets mad at 3 am that convenience store food is more than it is at a regular store.

>>12481834
Fuck off, they're making more at 50 cents per book than they are selling it to the pulping company. You're dishonest and justifying them ripping people off. If they want to be like a normal book store, than they should be taxed like one too.

>>12481830
>latin "literature"
oh no no no

>>12481797
Don't give in.

>>12481852
Oh no a company makes money! Go talk to fucking Random House and tell them they need to sell their books at cost and see how far that retard spewing bullshit gets you. You don't want to pay it then don't buy it. There is no reason for you to go cry about it to random strangers on the internet. If you have a problem with how bullshit nonprofit tax laws are then go take it up with your fucking governor. Let me guess. You're still going to buy one or two of the books, right? Then they win and you just look like a hypocritical little bitch. Either buy the books or fuck off. $3 for a book isn't even a bad price.

>>12481596
Are books really that cheap in the us? I rarely see books for less than 3 euros over here and even then its only shit books. Wish i was murrican

>>12481903
Yeah. OP is just a cream puff.

>>12481875
It is a bad price because nobody else is going to by them at $3/book, which by your own admission, is precisely why they get pulped. Good will is getting greedy with their prices which is why they just sit there any more.
>Go talk to fucking Random House and tell them they need to sell their books at cost and see how far that retard spewing bullshit gets you.
I don't buy new books, not my problem. Also, at least they create something and are justified in charging a higher price, unlike good will, who got the books for nothing in the first place.
I frequent good will and I recognize when they are jacking up prices just because they're delusional to think "muh books" are becoming a trendy thing to put on shelves. Look at the books there, they aren't even worth $1 a book typically. The clearance section at Half-Price Books not only is better, but cheaper than good will. They aren't charging $3 for a hardcover there and the books are basically new, unlike good will, where the books often are beat up and rarely have mildew around the binding. That's not worth $3 fucking dollars. They're so expensive now, that I scarcely see anyone ever even browsing the book section there because they know its a rip off. I'm sorry you're suck a high roller that you think $3 is nothing. For me, that's a lot of money. I remember when Goodwill used to sell books for 10 cents a piece. They aren't getting $3 fucking dollars for a book from me, and anyone in there right mind shouldn't pay this highway robbery for a book too.

>>12481732
Thirding. Get it faggot OP.

>>12481931
They still make a fuckton of money. Books aren't even worth the hassle at the price you want. There is an entire warehouse attached to every goodwill where a team of people sifts through mountains of shit (sometimes literal shit) to find the random things even worth selling. They also have an entire store of not books which is where the money comes in. The books are just there to help curb costs. If you don't like the price then don't buy it. Go to whatever the fuck half price books is and get them there. That's how a market works. The book pricing is literally set to be cheaper than Amazon if you include shipping. That's how Powell's works where I am. I make a shit wage and I'm still fine with 2-8$ a book. Also if you don't buy new books ever you aren't supporting the industry at all and you deserve to get ripped off. Quit trying to rationalize how your cheapness is justified by acting as though goodwill is personally ripping you off. You are under no obligation to buy the books. Just leave the store. Why is everyone in this country so fucking cheap? You're the reason why corporations are able to thrive in the capacity that they do.

>>12481903
Yep. Got this stack for 6 bucks at goodwill earlier today.

Buy whatever you haven't already read.
I've read almost all of Plato, Aristotle's essential works, and quite a few essays by Montaigne, so I'd buy Bacon's Essays and Erasmus' Praise of Folly. I've read a bit of Cicero, but I find him to be too similar to some of the milder Stoics, like Senenca and Montaigne, which is why I wouldn't consider him worth owning.

>>12482020
That's a decent haul. Nice.

>>12481983
>They still make a fuckton of money
At pulping? Then why not skip the hassle of selling and occupying limited store space just to sell a handful at $3 a piece in a single month.
>There is an entire warehouse attached to every goodwill where a team of people sifts through mountains of shit (sometimes literal shit) to find the random things even worth selling.
Not my problem. That doesn't magically make the book suddenly worth $3, pal.
>The books are just there to help curb costs. If you don't like the price then don't buy it.
As is every other bit of merchandise. It's just that books are the heaviest, and occupy a ton of space, and seldom move. Very few people are willing to buy them at $3/book, which means most of them are getting pulped.
I remember it was about 10 years ago and most books were under a quarter at my local goodwill. Inflation hasn't increased that much. They're becoming trendy and they think they can draw a little more blood out of the rock.
>Go to whatever the fuck half price books is and get them there.
I will.
>The book pricing is literally set to be cheaper than Amazon if you include shipping.
Different market entirely. Nobody is going the fuck out of their way to good will on the off-chance that they might have that one book they're looking for. They go there because they can get a few cheap books at random.
Most of those books, people would be happy to get rid of for free. They're not worth $3 bucks plus tax.
>Quit trying to rationalize how your cheapness is justified by acting as though goodwill is personally ripping you off.
They are. 50 cents is reasonable. $3.00 isn't.
>Why is everyone in this country so fucking cheap? You're the reason why corporations are able to thrive in the capacity that they do.
No, you are.

>>12482058
So don't buy the book. It isn't my job to justify their pricing. You can bitch and moan all you want but the price is the same. Either buy it or don't. Regardless of your choice you should pick up some knives or rope while your there so you can go home and kill your worthless, whiny ass. You don't understand how a business works, you don't understand how value is decided, you don't understand that you can go somewhere else and you clearly don't understand how to make your point.
tl;dr
OPs a little cream puff
So he'll cry and pout.
Books cost too much
For his cheap jew snout.
The market is a spooky thing
That eludes his simple mind.
So the angels emerge and sing
"You're better off without his kind"
"But that's not the books value!"
He protests and whines
"Its overpriced! I'm gonna sue!"
And his ignorance shines.
"Everyone is a crook!"
He bellows to anon,
"I'll never buy another book
Until the goodwill is gone!"
But the store will still stand
And OP will be no more.
The day will be grand
And OP's mother is a whore.

>>12482128
>It isn't my job to justify their pricing.
That's literally what you were doing in your posts and you did a bad job at it.
There is no way that $3 per book is justifiable or even a good business decision considering the amount they get per pound pulped, is a fraction of what they would have gotten for selling it for even much cheaper. They don't sell. They sit there for months and years. They occupy space. It's all around stupid. OP and those encouraging him are only complicit actors in allowing Goodwill to charge more money and the only way you can level with them is to offer less than the asking price with someone who holds the power to negotiate. As a matter of principle, I refuse to pay such obscene prices for books they received for free.

>>12482028
Yeah, I hit up a lot of different thrift shops and used bookstores in my city now and again, but I always seem to have great luck at the one Goodwill I was at today. Once I walked out with 4 Haruki Murakami books and a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Which is weird because it's bordering a really ghetto part of town.

>>12482156
See? You don't like the prices so you don't buy. Thanks for confirming my argument. Come again soon.
>>12482157
I usually find decent stuff at 2 of the goodwills here. I ended up with the entire Foundation series for like 6$ a year ago. I used to live near one that was within 8 miles of two colleges and you could find some really good stuff. Or you could go to the other used bookstore which was pretty cool.

>>12482156
One of my local used bookstores does charity sales every month where paperbacks go for 50 cents and hardcovers are a dollar. Look for something like that. But if I'm browsing thrift shops and see a book I feel like I need to have, I dont see how 1-3 dollars is unjustifiable.
Maybe you need to get a job?

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>>12482156
Also every goodwill should be rotating out any stock they have that is more than a month old. Plus the discount sticker of the week. I'm not 100% sure you've ever been in a goodwill. Also books take up almost no space compared to furniture, shoes, clothing racks, or even dishes. Quit being a bitch.

>>12482020
ideal haul stack

>>12481596
>That's $24+ tax for all those books. That's not a good deal at all.
Are you guys really this broke or what?

>>12481830
If Cicero is so great why did he die?

>>12482253
I think it's just one unemployed zoomer screaming about how expensive 20 bucks is

>>12481596
>That's $24+ tax for all those books. That's not a good deal at all.
Just how fucking poor are you?

>>12482253
Yes. I can't even afford to eat.

>>12482337
Eat the books. That's just 3$ a meal.

>>12482342
You can't eat books. $3/meal isn't affordable either. That's $2160/year eating twice a day.

>>12482372
Have you even tried? Plus that's not even a tenth of your salary at minimum wage.

>>12482372
What do you even do? Feel a sense of smug superiority towards the working man while you starve in squalor?

>>12482372
A book is definitely a lot more than a single meal. I don't have experience with this, but I'd guess 10 pages would be filling, not to mention the covers. You'd be eating like a king for a week for the measly price of $3.

>>12481565

All of them

>>12481565
Lucretius

>>12482381
lol

everyone wants to be humbled as the poor man

>>12481578
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>>12482187
t. GIDF

>>12482020
All the goodwill's around me are fucking shit. SHIT

>>12481939
thread in an image