This is one of those times where seeing it all written out feels redundant, but you know if those examples weren't there people would be asking if one book cost £0.5.
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Guarantee it wasn’t written out first until they had people argue about it
That would be me
I would do this to incentivize shoppers to take as many as possible. Like at a charity shop that needs to make room for a sizable donation or just to churn the shelves a little.
The sign is still pretty amusing tho.
This was outside a charity shop. 👍
100 old karens with nothing to do must have argued that they are entitled to one book for .50
We do an annual charity book collection and we do this towards the end of the day too. We really don’t want any books left if we can avoid it.
Donate 2.5 pounds and select up to 5 books.
Your welcome.
Is "your" bolded because its a trap for people to point out you used the wrong version?
Correct. You must be the rogue.
Your must be the rouge
My welcome what?
You would be surprised how many people need a writeup like the one in the post.
yeah ill take one order of 2 books, and uhh another order of three books
That'll be £2.50
£5.00 actually
Ah, my joke was that I am too stubborn with my pricing. You WILL have the discount, and you WILL like it. But maybe I'm too old and tired and convey it with a glare.
I like that each of you is trying to out-pedant each other in a very civil manner
It's arguably the only purpose of social media. 😂
SCIENCE BITCH
I’m sure they had to do this because they had too many people asking “how much for 3 books”.
That or just because funny.
I found out why they want to get rid of them fast. They're actually ice sculptures disguised as books!
Used books are hard to move. This is one reason why most libraries don't take donations. These sales are for clearing shelves more than for making profit.
Not hard to move. Almost impossible to move. In my shelf apart from some old leather bound books from my grandfather (Churchils world history, complete Hamsund) and CE and hard cover 40k books I have nothing but paper trash
People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.
I use the Norwegian finn.no (listings of everything from old books to cars to houses. Norway is such a small market that one service covers all) It's perfect for selling used (but little used) baby and child stuff. I have also bought a lot off Lego Duplo.
A library I used to use would put old books for sale outside. If someone came in to pay for them, great, but if they happened to mysteriously disappear, that was fine too.
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"1 to 5 books - £2.50"
buy one get 4 free
Don't say it that way because people will take 5 and trash 4 of them just because. Labelling it this way, people will actually take 2 if they only want 2.
£2.50
A book is 2.50.
Two books are 2.50.
Three books are 2.50.
Four books are 2.50.
Five books are 2.50
2.5 weird F-shaped things
It's a stylised L, for libre.
f(x) = 2.50 for x in {1,2,…,5}
They should have put that on the sign. Functional notation is universally understood, after all.
not.
Maybe a plot then.
A new branch of Mathematics has been discovered.
I see you're familiar with just gimme two fiddy and take some books theorem
I've transitioned to digital books. I still have a few physical books on my shelf that are special to me, but digital books are just too damn convenient. (And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)
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