I bought a book (State of Fear. Yeah, I know, I’m a bad person for even touching this book.) at the local library used book cellar. The books are priced at increments of 50 cents, so you might think the retired ladies (women?) at volunteering there would have it easy making change. But no. The book prices do not include tax. Please. Would it be too difficult to charge 95 cents for a book instead of a dollar? That’s not even the simplest solution. It’s not as if they run inventory on their collection, so they would not even have to change the price tags – just declare that taxes are included in the marked prices. Really. When the lady said $1.58 to me, there must have been a fleeting look of absolute disgust on my face.
Goodness, don’t they realize how much easier their lives would be if they did this? That is, if they simply listened to me? [smiley] OK, maybe I’m missing something. Some arcane county regulation from 1878 on resale books for non-profits that cost less than a cup of coffee. That must be it.
