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This review is for Half Price Books on West-port Kansas City Mo. I went in there to sell some books, movies and games. The books were Distributional Justice Theory and Measurement; Regional Anesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management; Malpractice and Medical Liability; 5 brand new paperback books; 1 wii game and 1 play station game. All the books are brand new and two of the books are listed on there website for the original going price of 184.00. Same book is listed on Amazon for 206.00. They are ripping people off and I think it is sickening. They didn't think I knew what my books were worth and tried to take advantage of me. Now I don't expect to get the full retail value but atleast a descent percentage and the fact that I had all that stuff and expensive books and they only offered me $13.00 when they are selling one of my books on their site for almost $200. I felt this needed to be mentioned, I bet they get a lot of people in there that don't know any better and will just take the price they give for the books. They have you go walk around while they make up these ridiculous prices. I am a reseller I buy merchandise by the pallet and I am always getting expensive books that I sell on ebay and amazon I went online to find a place to sell some of the books quicker and came across half price books, I called them and they said they couldn't give quotes over the phone and that they took all kinds of books but I would need to come down there in order to get a quote. I told them I would be driving far and needed them to at least quote one of my books and they declined so I drove down there and had my intelligence insulted with the price they gave of $13 please don't waste your time with this company, they are ripping people off like no tomorrow!

I came to reddit only for the sake of one group to discuss topic that I am interested in. I started to make comments, and first of all, on my second (!) comment it said I am doing it too much, so I have to wait n-minutes. Next, after I finally submitted 3 comments, and spent time writing them... they just deleted it because i am a new user and I need to quote "lurk" for some time! This is such a nonsense. I never seen big social website which was made so user unfriendly. If not this specific group, I would never come back. Still not sure if I will. Really made me feel that they don't care about their users.

This site is loaded with pointless content top to bottom. Most of the focus is on the upvotes and downvotes, namely on the poster's reputation.

Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. In this case, too much anonymity means idiots gather to talk about stupid things. I've even seen posters brag about committing crimes. The cops should come here to get freebies.

There are a huge number of subreddits, covering almost every subject you might want to discuss. The only real problem is that their karma system motivates people to be agreeable, and to not contradict people. For example, if in the Walmart subreddit, they're expressing their hatred of customers, you had better not say anything in favor of the customers, or you will lose a lot of karma. Or if you post something funny in a typical subreddit, a lot of people won't get the joke, and will think you're just being silly, and you're likely to lose a lot of karma that way. They need to repair their karma system, to not motivate people to give everyone negative karma. And even the positive karma is usually for the wrong reasons. It makes the whole thing a lot more boring than it would otherwise be. But Reddit, in spite of its problems, is infinitely better than City Data forums.

There is one default 'front page' that has the most voted items from a default list of subreddits (subgroups within the main group). It takes a little time to learn how to use, e.g., to select the subreddits you're interested in and eliminate the ones you aren't, otherwise, there will be a lot of material that doesn't interest you. If you want politics, pick some political subreddits. If you want cat videos and cute pictures, choose those. Christians, atheists, Islam, etc. have their own groups as do most countries, cities, etc. There are also different ways to view each subgroup, e.g., most popular, newest, most controversial, best of, etc. Anyone can start a subreddit if they're willing to moderate it, and there are THOUSANDS of them. It takes getting used to but ANYONE can find what interests them. Pay attention to the posts you like as they'll tell you what subgroup they came from and you can subscribe to it, likewise unsubscribe to the ones you don't.