It’s all about keeping inventory

A couple weeks before Christmas my parents asked me to order some books for myself online as a present and I did so, finding three books I really wanted that could be shipped right away and arrive around Christmas. A few weeks passed and I e-mailed the company I had purchased the books from in order to check on my order. Soon a reply informed me that they had made an error in listing two of the items as in stock, hadn’t bothered to inform me of this and had sent one of the books already. That week a package arrived for me that held all three books I ordered. Today another package arrived that contained additional copies of two of the books (with a value of nearly $50). It is important to keep a well documented inventory.

Is anyone interested in having a copy of Deng Ming-Dao’s Everyday Tao or Phillip Lopate’s anthology The Art of the Personal Essay?

17 comments on “It’s all about keeping inventory

  1. APOLLO!! BUDDY!! If you haven’t given away the extra copy of Deng Ming-Dao’s Everyday Tao, I’d appreciate having it. Seriously. Well, that’s assuming you’re giving it away, because otherwise I can’t afford it. But you know what I mean. =D

      1. I don’t think so. I believe it was from a seller on e-bay. He’d instructed them to mail it here (so I’d have it for Christmas) and they screwed up and sent another about a week later. When he told them what had happened, they said to keep it.

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