Yes . . . at some point I told a young co-worker that that "Save" icon was an image of a 3.25" floppy disk, something I correctly guessed he had never seen in real life.

"When a third party merchant sells through Amazon, Amazon accepts their return policy." NO THEY DON'T. "I have seen a few cases where the seller refuses any and all returns, and Amazon still allowed them to sell on their website." NO THEY DON'T. It simply means that they haven't been policed yet, OR that they are a huge, huge company that can negotiate with Amazon. Did you miss the part where I said I'd sold there for nine years?

Amazon's requirements regarding return policies are described by a seller on the seller forums here: link "Sellers have to have a policy at least as favorable as Amazon’s own return policy. Your policy can vary in that it can be MORE lenient than Amazon’s, but it cannot be LESS lenient. There may be a handful of very lucrative sellers who have specifically been granted permission from Amazon to have their own return policies, but those are very few and very far between, having likely been given the ability to actually edit the return information on their Amazon storefront." Your seller is not one of those "few and very far between" sellers. Your subject line is "Are there any honest booksellers left?" The way to help ensure that honest booksellers thrive is to hold sellers like yours accountable. One way to do that is by filing an A-z claim when you receive something that is not what you ordered, and the seller does not treat you properly (such as, in your case, expecting that you, not HE, will pay return shipping). If you want to make the marketplace better, use Amazon's resolution mechanism, the A-z claim, to force sellers to comply with Amazon's rules.

"When a third party merchant sells through Amazon, Amazon accepts their return policy." Good lord that is absolutely false. It could not be more false. "I have seen a few cases where the seller refuses any and all returns, and Amazon still allowed them to sell on their website." Those sellers will lose any A-z claims regarding refused returns. Why would you think that I, a nine-year Amazon seller who's moved over 500,000 orders, don't know what I'm talking about? Just file an A-z claim and get your money back.

No, that is not how it works -- they cannot force you to pay the return shipping. If they sent the wrong item it is on them to pay the return shipping. (I am a longtime Amazon seller and I know their rules.) By "wrong" in this case of course I mean not the domestic edition of that book, which is what you purchased and what you expected. Write the seller back and tell them that you expect to receive a postpaid return label or you will file an A-z claim. If they hesitate at all just stop communicating with them and file the claim, saying what happened - that you received an Indian version of the book rather than domestic, and the seller is requiring you to pay return shipping, which you should not have to do.

Just file an A-z claim. State that the product you received was not the domestic product you ordered, but an Indian version. The seller will be forced to refund you.

Black Dynamite. A hilarious movie that deserved much more love than it got.

Member 7989122 wrote:

I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?

$19, no, but $39 for refurbished on Amazon, yes . . . and for that small expenditure you eliminate having to spend your time ripping the discs.