One Faulty Book
July 5th 2010 21:02
Several months ago, I came across one of the I Can Has Cheezburger? books at one of my favourite bookstores. Excited and delighted, I purchased a copy on the spot without checking the pages.
When I got home, I realised some of the pages weren’t cut properly at the printers ie the cat photos inside the book were supposed to take up the entire page. Some of the pages weren’t lined up properly, so when the pages were sliced and then put together, there were white margins on the side.
Most people wouldn’t probably care but this annoyed me. I was planning on exchanging the book for a better copy but when I went back to the store, they all had the same printing fault – some worse than mine - so I decided to keep my copy.
Several months later I noticed the store had some more copies of the same book. This time, there were two copies that had only one faulty page so I decided to buy one of them.
As I was in a hurry to get back to work, I didn’t check the book thoroughly. It wasn’t until I got home that I realised that although the pages were bound better, there were tiny pinpricks throughout the first ten or so pages. I couldn’t believe this! I went back to the store to see if I could swap the new book for another book on the shelf. I picked up the remaining copy and noticed it also had the same pinprick marks on the first couple of pages.
I then decided to ask for a refund. Normally, this store does not offer refunds unless the book is faulty. I showed the lady at the counter where all the pinpricks were and she gave me my money back immediately.
A week later at the same store, I noticed they now had three copies of this book. I checked each copy and they all had pinpricks through the first couple of pages. What gives? I’ve never seen such a bad batch of books before in all my years of book collecting.
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