The ThriftBooks Kiada That Never Ends

As a book lover who is getting older and more infirm thanks to the years but who continues to buy books though I shouldn’t I have bought books from ThriftBooks among other booksellers on occasion. My problem with ThriftBooks, a problem of longstanding though they have gotten better with this, is the fact that too often ThriftBooks sends you an ex-library book that isn’t listed as ex-library. During one week, for example, I received three books that were not listed as ex-lib but were. ThriftBooks does refund you for their mistake, which is great, but that doesn’t make receiving an ex-lib book that isn’t listed as ex-lib any less annoying.  

Because of this annoyance I decided to pause my ThriftBooks account and think about whether I wanted to buy books from them in the future. After several months wrote ThriftBooks asking them to restore my account and wrote them at the email they suggested in order to do this. No answer. I wrote again. No response. I wrote yet again. Nothing. 

So, given that restoring my account didn’t seem to be in the cards I wrote ThriftBooks asking them to delete my account entirely so I could either avoid ThriftBooks in the future or create a new account in order to buy books from them. I was unable to use my email since ThriftBooks still had my email in the system and as you know you cannot create new accounts with the same email if it is still in the system.

ThriftBooks finally responded to my email sending me a link to request that my account be deleted. The email I received suggested that if ThriftBooks did not want to delete my account they did not have to. This irked me even more. All I should have to do is tell them to delete my account and voila it is deleted by ThriftBooks tech nerds. I don’t know whether they finally deleted my information but what I do know is that I cannot use my email, the email in the ThriftBooks system, to even buy books as a guest from this corporation. I suspect that petty and adolescent ThriftBooks has banned my email entirely. Oh well, it is kind of nice to have one’s email cleansed.