When They Let Monkeys Sell Books

 

If you have ever wondered what would would happen if they ever let monkeys sell books well then you have to look no further than Monkey Music and Books. The aptly named Monkey Music and Books is one of the many marketplace sellers that has reared its ugly head in the new digital age to sell items, including books, on, for example, Skankizon, the corporation that has given skank and slag new meaning in the postmodern world and which has almost singlehandedly undermined the used book market and rent asunder historical book selling practise.

I unfortunately recently made what turns out to be a mistake when I purchased a book from Monkey Music and Books. Monkey Shams, of course,  have long been prominent in western capitalism and particularly in American capitalism, something that has not changed in the postmodern era. Postmodernity, in fact, seems only to have heightened the practise of skank and slag macho capitalism and its associated low level schemings, incompetencies, and irrationalities and made it more difficult to deal with as a consumer. While I made a mistake by buying from the Monkey Sham it was a sin of omission rather than a sin of commission. That second sin was committed by the Monkey Sham thanks to his/her inability to accurately describe the items he has for sale, something sadly quite common in the brave new digital world.

The Monkey Sham described the book I bought from him/her in this manner and I quote: "Condition: Used - Very Good - No cover slip". So, was the book "used"?. Yes. It clearly was. Was it "very good"?. It clearly wasn't. Was one of the reasons it wasn't "very good" because it was something that was not noted as it should have been in the description of the book? Yes, it was an "ex-library" book, a commodity that is too often a silent common currency in the shyster book world these days. Are "ex-library books "very good"? No. The plethora of stamps and pockets on an "ex-library" book makes the that book inherently not "very good"? Is this description deficit disorder (ddd) that characterises a significant subspecies of primates selling items in cyberspace, this inability to accurately describe an "ex-lib" book as an "ex-lib" book, noting something, in other words that has been de rigueur in the bookselling business for years, a problem? Absolutely. It is essential information that every reasonable and rational seller should note so every consumer can make a reasonable and rational decision whether to buy something or not. Finally, I should also add that the Monkey Sham did not pack this quite substantial 600 page plus book very well and it arrived at my doorstep severely damaged.

If this ability to inaccurately describe books sold is not enough absurdity for you, the Monkey Sham and Skankizon expect the customer to eat the cost of a return postage label if you don't want to print the label from Amazon, something that costs monies and labour, or if you don't have a printer. These skanks and slags, in other words, want you to pay for someone else's incompetence, a phenomenon that has, of course, long been the American way of business and seems to have become even more the practise of American business in the brave new digital world. 

I will leave you with one last nugget of wisdom before I go: avoid the Monkey Sham like the plague or better yet the pandemic. Of course, in the end it is impossible to avoid skanky and slaggy flim flam capitalist shysters like the Monkey Sham in the brave new digital age of misinformation, disinformation, and bullshite. Like bullshit itself, these shysters are everywhere and they can, thanks to the fact that they can readily change identities in the double edged pox that is cyberspace, simply change their names in order to appear innocent and screw you all over again, all with the help of a morally challenged corporation like Skankizon which itself pleads the ignorance of bliss and proclaims its third party bystander status when such issues arise. Caveat Emptor. Let the buyer beware.