[UA] Re: Leaving stuff in bookstores

[Saul]

I work in a bookshop, occasionally in another bookshop and I used to work in
a bookshop that my parents own. They're all small independent shops. If they
found a book on the shelf that wasn't in the computer, they'd look up the
books-in-print database for info. Failing that, they'd probably just slap a
price on it and sell it as a bargain.

Speaking of these shops... Greg, will you be selling any copies to stores
with a trade discount? If you will be, I could probably convince at least
one of the above shops to stock a few copies.

Saul

"Unknown Armies -- A Roleplaying Game of Power and Weird Hairiness"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Moretto" <jbm17 at cornell.edu>
To: <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: [UA] Re: Leaving stuff in bookstores


> From: Chad Underkoffler <chadu at yahoo.com>
>
> >Subject: [UA] Re: UA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 164
> >
> >
> >
> >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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