I use Barnes & Noble as a primary search, and supliment with search from Abebooks.com and Biblio.com
Usually when a "marketplace" title shows up in a B&N search the seller's price is about 5% less either direct or through Abebooks.com or Biblio.com
FYI: I have never had very good result with amazon search
Multiple search will often find the same titles from the same seller, the interesting thing is there are usually differences in price, guessing this is margin for the website, whichever.
Occasionally I will find a title at a very good price on eBay, and it's also usually from a seller that is listed with Abebooks or Biblio, but more often than not almost every title listed on eBay is marked up far beyond any found in any search, higher than suggested retail even, guessing this is the result of "direct selling", where a seller does not have the item, they just place massive amounts of ads marking everything up and then when some one falls into their snare they just buy from the lowest available retail and ship directly to the buyer. This is another form of inventoryless selling although much different in nature and not at all nice for the consumer or much of anything really, it serves to clutter searches and keep ad rates higher but what can you do, just noticing these things because I have found that a lot of searching, a lot of time, and a lot of patience is the best way to find the best deals, so when I find roadblocks like I've described it's a little disheartening, there's not a lot of ways around in some cases.
Still I'm always optimistic for the future...
(wanted to leave this topic on a good note :)
Robert
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> In article <jhaip2+cif5@...>,
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> > WoW! I just bought that book last week, it was around $30 with shipping
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> Where did you buy it?
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> I just put
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> "Printed Circuit Boards, design, Fabrication, Assembly and Testing"
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> into Amazon and it drew a blank
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