[UA] Re: Leaving stuff in bookstores

[Hammons, Jade]

How about I buy like 20 copies, fill a duffle bag and then the second printing can have such great cover blurbs as 

"Best book I was ever battered unconscious by" - Umberto Eco
"A story that hit me with such force I was nearly driven comatose" - Tim Powers

Jade Hammons
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus




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Subject: [UA] Re: Leaving stuff in bookstores


From: Chad Underkoffler <chadu at yahoo.com>

>Subject: [UA] Re: UA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 164
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>Does anybody know what would happen if a book not in inventory
>was found in a bookstore by employees? I've been thinking about
>this... I mean, someone finds the book, takes it up front, and
>it's not in the computer.
>
>What happens next?
>
>Anyone who's worked in a bookstore, any ideas?
>
Well, I used to work in a Waldenbooks, which is owned by Borders, so I 
imagine this carries for most major chains.
What it would come down to is "do we have it in the computer"?  
Inventory, while computer-tracked, is prone to mistakes;
we had many instances of the computer telling us we were out of stock 
while we had books on the shelf and vice versa, and
there were plenty of ways for that to occur.  So what would happen first 
is someone would look it up in the system.  If we
found a listing for the book, chances are most employees would just 
shrug and shelve it (and, in fact, it could then be sold). 
In the case of someone a little more on-the-ball and dedicated, they 
might puzzle briefly over the anomaly of a single book
they have no record of ever having received, and conclude it was left by 
a patron or employee.  The usual round of "is this
yours" would follow, then maybe a stay in the lost-and-found before 
someone just took it home.  In the event that it doesn't
show up in the computer at all (meaning that the company simply doesn't 
carry it), then you'd skip straight to the assumption
that it's a lost object and it probably ends up in some employee's 
possession even faster.

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