{"id":3449,"date":"2015-02-01T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2015-01-31T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T06:43:36","slug":"knowing-what-youre-buying-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/knowing-what-youre-buying-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing what you&#8217;re buying helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3450\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0780-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0780\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0780-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0780.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>When buying stuff from eBay, it often helps to know exactly what you&#8217;re buying&#8230; because the seller often doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, this item, which I recently obtained. The auction listing says that it was three books in one! What a great deal! And it&#8217;s possible that the seller really believed that. After all, the covers of the individual books were reproduced inside this 64 page staple-bound booklet.<\/p>\n<p>What this is, however, is not these three 200-some page books somehow squished into 64 pages. Instead, this is a preview book; this has short samples from those longer books. A thing like this is usually used to sell bookstores on ordering these books.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it wasn&#8217;t three full books in one, wasn&#8217;t what the auction claimed it was, but I was fine with that. I&#8217;m a collecting completist. I knew what it was, and I wanted it. But\u00a0goodness knows, I see a ton of eBay listings that are selling first printings that aren&#8217;t, Schulz originals that aren&#8217;t, toys from 1958 that are really from 1985, and so forth. Don&#8217;t trust the sellers to know what they&#8217;re talking about&#8230; or to be honest about it when the do know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When buying stuff from eBay, it often helps to know exactly what you&#8217;re buying&#8230; because the seller often doesn&#8217;t. Take, for example, this item, which I recently obtained. The auction listing says that it was three books in one! What a great deal! And it&#8217;s possible that the seller really &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}