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June 23, 2008

Re: the review above.I am the Book Troll in the bookshop & he neglected to mention the 9 comics were £4.00 in total,reduced from £20.00.Most shops would also consider it a insult to ask for further discount.Why would you travel 100 miles,to only spend £2.00 !
If the comics are on sale in London at 10 pence each,why do i have hundreds of dealers buying from me every week,to re-sell them at London Comic Marts ?
I welcome people visiting from all over the UK,but not if you demand a 50% discount on £5.00 of books.Why not ask Oxfam and see what they say ? We also support the Birmingham Dogs Home & sell raffle tickets for Great Ormond Street Hospital - would you want the tickets half price ?
As we are professional book dealers,you are not going to find a rare 1st edition on the shelf for 10p.We sell on ebay,too.We also stock Modern Plays,Philosophy,Sport,Science,Music,
Occult,Transport,Travel,Crime.etc.
Every Summer we have a free book weekend,hundreds of Books free outside on tables - but please bring your own
carrier bags,boxes we can supply free,but plastic bags cost us a fortune these days !

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Stay away from this hellhole

May 10, 2008

Wow, do places like these still exist.
Apparently they do, lets see what happened ...
1) My first mistake was asking if it was possible for a discount on 9 items I was thinking of buying, needless to say this didn't seem to go down well with the troll in charge of the shop
2) After inquiring after the prices of a couple of other items I was told that since I wasn't interested in buying the other items I wouldn't be interested in buying anything else, ok that wasn't too insulting
3) Was told that since I wasn't interested in paying full price I wasn't supporting my local bookstore
4) After explaining to the troll that I wasn't a 'local person', I was told to go back to London and buy my books from there.

How very charming, so my advice for anyone thinking of venturing to this shop is to stay away!!!

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