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Borders used to have everything: books, music, DVDs. Now half of their inventory has been reduced. Sections that were once long have been downsized to a mere shelf. Another retail casualty of the internet.
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Supernova
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Chris
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Borders is so depressing these days.
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No need to drive out to Borders when you can sit at your computer in your underwear and order the latest whatever from their site or from Amazon.
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Only problem with Amazon is no matter what book you get, even if it's a little pocket paperback, the shipping is $4 for every single one. That's one reason why I miss Ebay when they took money orders instead of everything must be paypal only, with them you could get reasonable shipping on things.
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Well thats if you order from the marketplace. I believe their own books qualify for free shipping like anything else.Supernova wrote:Only problem with Amazon is no matter what book you get, even if it's a little pocket paperback, the shipping is $4 for every single one. That's one reason why I miss Ebay when they took money orders instead of everything must be paypal only, with them you could get reasonable shipping on things.
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Forgiveness_Man wrote:Well thats if you order from the marketplace. I believe their own books qualify for free shipping like anything else.
Yep. As long as you order from Amazon & not the individual sellers & spend $25, shipping is free.
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Yeah but if the book from an individual seller is only 1 cent or $1 (which is often the case with the books I buy) plus the $4 shipping, it wouldn't be worth it to pay the $25 for free shipping, but it does get annoying that out of the blue a while back, they raised the shipping from $3 for every book, and it doesn't take long for that to add up.
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When I was in HS, college and for the about 4 years after that I worked at a branch of Waldenbooks. Waldenbooks is now a subsidiary of Borders. I think they used to have over 500 stores and now they're down to about 150. The Borders that was closest to me closed a while ago. There's a Barnes and Noble that we go to but sooner rather then later these brick & mortar retailers are going to go the way of the Dodo. Places like B&N seem to be trying to commit suicide with their e-readers.
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There's a Walden Books right by my house and it's cramped and claustrophobic as sin. Remember B. Dalton? I haven't seen them in years. Book and music stores are an endangered species these days.
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