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HALF-PRICE BOOKS Wanted to SELL, not DONATE my BOOKS and got RIPPED OFF! Austin Texas
I buy lawbooks from Half-Price Books.
I buy casebooks for my pre-law classes and I buy notes and actual lawbooks and whatever these people have that helps me to be the best lawyer I can be someday when I get to take that BAR EXAM!
I spend quite a LOT of money with these people and they used to be GREAT to work with...
Until Sunday!
It was over 100 degrees Sunday afternoon and I had a lot of hardback books concerning how to get a job and I had some back issues of Variety magazine which I know they buy because I have seen them for sales there. In fact, I had seen EVERYTHING there for sale that I had brought in --especially two duplicate lawbooks that belonged to me.
I was at least hoping to get half-a tank of gasoline....
Things have not been doing good in the trucking industry lately and I am now driving a bus.
Instead I was literally confronted with a snot-nosed young man with reddish hair who looked at me and did a doubletake, the kind you do when you are being menaced by a panhandler or a robber. In my case, I was verging on heat exhaustion. His lip curled distainfully as he asked me for my ID. It is standard company buying policy but the way he said it made me seem as if I was a thief. It was over 100 degrees F outside and I probably looked rather bad since I had about three small shopping carts FULL of like-new periodicals and one alone of hardback books in FRESH OFF THE PRESS condition and newly book bound as well.
I did not like his attitude but I did not like the prospect of taking them back to the car either. I figured I would at least get a few bucks for them.
As I sat, he took younger people's merchandise to buy backway ahead of me and tried to pretend I wasn't there. A man about my age came in and he was offered $2.00 for a $145 lawbook and he told the "kid" F*** you and left. He only had one lawbook and I sure wanted it because it was current but who knows where it will eventually end up.
I noticed that he would sneer and degrinate older folks but he would pay out to the persons closer to his own age a lot more money, no matter what the condition the books were in.
IT THEN OCCURRED TO ME THAT MAYBE, POSSIBLY, ALLEGEDLY THESE WERE HIS FRIENDS WERE BRINGING IN STUFF AND HE WOULD SAY THEY SOLD IT AND THEN HE WOULD SPLIT THE PROCEEDS WITH THEM. Economic times are hard and retail jobs don't pay very well ---especially Half-Price Books!
That was the only way I could possibly justify, explain the HUGE discrepancy between the way older people with merchandise to sell were treated versus the younger people ( 17-15) v. older people ( 35 and up).
Eventually they called my name and I came up wanting my money.
THAT LYING PIECE OF SLIME HAD THE NERVE TO TELL ME THAT I HAD WAITED IN THEIR d**n STORE FOR 40 MINUTES TO "DONATE" my merchandise and that they had to deduct any funds they WOULD have paid me for the cost of RECYCLING ALL OF THE THINGS I HAD BROUGHT IN BECAUSE NONE OF THEM WERE ANY USE TO THEM.
Reeling from the lie, I left. I had no use for it anyway but this RIP OFF WAS SO BLATANT AND DISCRIMINATORY I AM STILL MAD LESS THAN 48 HOURS LATER!!!! I AM GOING TO CALL THEIR CORPORATE OFFICE IN DALLAS WHEN I GET OFF FROM MY JOB TODAY!
To make matters worse, I had $100 I had made helping some guys hang a LOT of sheetrock and I wanted to buy one LAST book from them to help me study for my midterm. The young dude behind the cash register attempted to see if I had a counterfeit because, as I understood it, all of those Mexican drug dealers, you know.
NO I DO NOT KNOW ANY MEXICANS WHO DEAL DRUGS OR ANY WHITE, AFRICAN AMERICANS, ASIANS,WOMEN,GAYS, LESBIANS, DISABLED PERSONS OR NATIVE AMERICANS OR ANYBODY ELSE WHO DEALS DRUGS and if I was a drug dealer, I would be able to afford my own FULL collection of law books instead of having to buy them used one by one or bum them from law firms who are throwing them out!
Either this place has got one heck of a hustle going on --in which case an AUDITOR needs to look at the books..NOT THE ONES THEY ARE STEALING FROM THE CUSTOMERS( Maybe to resell at garage sales and flea markets and put the money in their own pockets) or they need MORE DIVERSITY IN THEIR HIRING. TITLE VII EEO LAWSUIT,PERHAPS?
I USED TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY WITH THESE PEOPLE...ABOUT $500 or more every semester.
I am now looking for a good, honest USED DISCOUNT LAWBOOK OUTLET.
The GANG of thugs, crooks and punks at Half-Price Books North Lamar location need to be scraped from my business patronage like a HUGE pile of steaming DOG DO!
I REFUSE TO SPEND ANOTHER CENT WITH RUDE,DISCRIMINATORY, LYING, RIPPING OFF YUPPIE SPAWN!
THE YOUNG MAN APPARENTLY DIDN'T REALIZE THAT YOU DON'T DONATE MERCHANDISE TO A FOR-PROFIT OPERATION THAT HALF-PRICE BOOKS IS SUPPOSED TO BE...
If THIS is how they treat a LOYAL customer who has been buying things there EVERY PAYDAY every since they moved into the old remodelled Albertson's store from their Guadalupe store... BY STEALING THE MERCHANDISE I BROUGHT IN TO SELL THEM AND INSULTING ME AS WELL, IMAGINE HOW THEY MAY BE STEALING FROM THEIR EMPLOYER AS WELL.
I did NOT accuse them of theft.... It just SEEMS that way and I am NOT going back until they are NO LONGER THERE.
ANONYMOUS & ANGRY
Austin ( Home of the OUTRAGEOUS Rip-offs!), Texas
U.S.A.