Winfield said:
John_H wrote...
Sheesh, 12 seller copies, and the price is from $153 to $750, with 10
sellers (83%) over $275 and *half* of them over $680? !!??
Gaaarrwwkk! Whew, I'm glad I already have a copy. Damn! What's the
matter with these guys, anyway? Do they all want to hold on to their
inventory forever? Sure they look at each other's prices, but just
as a signal to *raise* their own price? I was always told efficient
competition was supposed to lower the prices!! Sheesh on a stick!
It seems there's a new rule a-foot for limited-quantity items, raise
the price until nobody will buy. What's the world coming to anyway?
alas, its pretty common.
a few years back I spotted Zieglers tome "gyrodynamics". I was quite
interested, but the shop wanted $200 for it - their excuse was "thats
what its worth online"
3 years later, they sold it to me for $40. I successfully argued that
the book is worth precisely what someone is prepared to pay, and that
all this time they were paying rent....
I also got a beautiful (but alas incomplete) set of the "Encyclopaedia
of Mathematics and its applications" for $200 - 14 tomes. They wanted
between $40 and $80 each. I have since been searching for the remaining
volumes....
last night I bought a couple of books:
14575736-1 Radio Direction Finders, Bond 18.94
14575736-2 Microwave Electronics, 2.95
14575736-3 Microwave Transmission, Slater 6.90
14575736-4 Radar Scanners and Radomes, Cady, Karelitz & Turner 4.95
14575736-5 Micro-Waves and Wave Guides, Barlow 9.89
14575736-6 Transmission Lines Antennas and Wave Guides, King 7.95
14575736-7 Short Wave Wireless Communication 4th Ed, Ladner 9.43
14575736-8 Microwave Antenna Theory & Design, Silver 31.00
(my first rad-lab book
14575736-9 Wave Guides, 3rd Edition, Lamont 9.51
14575736-10 Aerials for Centimetre Wave-Lengths, Fry & Goward 24.95
14575736-11 Transmission-line theory 13.95
14575736-12 Aeronautical Radio Engineering, Sandretto 7.95
14575736-13 Micro-Wave Measurements, Barlow 5.19
14575736-14 Aerials for Metre and Decimetre Wave-Lengths, Smith 9.68
shipping was almost as much as the books. I'd just read H. Paul Williams
Antenna design vol.2, so went thru the bibliography.
Cheers
Terry