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Problems With ScoutPal

Posted on 14 April 2008 by Gary H

ScoutPal Problems

I’ve been using ScoutPal since shortly after the company was founded and have always had good things to say about it. In fact, although I’ve never actually written a review about the service, I’ve recommended it in posts here on numerous occasions.

One thing I’ve always liked about ScoutPal has been it’s reliability. A few weeks ago that reliability began to deteriorate. For me, things came to a head this morning in a thrift store when it became necessary to log-in eleven times just to check five books.

When I got home I decided to do some checking and discovered there are a lot of users around the country who are having the same problem. The service that these other subscribers and I am getting at the current time is not acceptable considering what we are paying each month for the service.

If any readers are currently considering subscribing to ScoutPal’s service, I would recommend that they don’t subscribe at the present time. If the problems ScoutPal is currently having are corrected, ScoutPal may once again be a reliable service. Until that time though, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone start a new subscription.

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Making A Killing At The Local AAUW Book Sale

Posted on 27 October 2007 by Gary H

aauw book sale

The local chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is having their annual book sale this Friday and Saturday.

The sale is always located in the middle of the main corridor of one of our local shopping malls. Because of the large number of books to be put out each year, the ladies from the AAUW always start setting up for the sale Thursday morning and enforce a strict policy of “no sales” until the sale begins at 10:00 Friday Morning.

I have a friend named John, a retired school teacher, who has been selling books on Amazon for the last few years as a way to supplement his retirement income. John’s wife sent him to the mall shortly after it opened Thursday morning to pick up something for her. On his way out of the mall, hoping to scope-out the location of a few good books, he asked one of the two women there if he could “just look” at what they had out.

Her response was, “Go right ahead. If you find any you are interested in, buy them. We’re here to sell them.”

“I can buy them now?”, he responded.

“Buy all you want”, she replied.

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