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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:43 PM
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So...I bought a "lot" of books today at a flea market
because I sell books on Ebay.
In this group of books, I found a book that might turn a few heads and just wondering if I should just forget about it and turf it.
I don't want any hassles from Agent Mike.
It is the "little red book that may be the most powerful--and challenging document of the century".
"Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" Complete and Unexpurgated.
Sooo...would you risk putting it on Ebay or what?
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:45 PM
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1. personally..

...I wouldn't worry about it. It's a (still relatively) free country.
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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:48 PM
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2. oh how funny
I just brought that up in a Tibet Monastic Tradition class the other day; I remember when the school kids of China were given those.

How much do you want for it? Check your PM please.
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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:49 PM
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3. not worth much
Sure there's lots of them listed there already
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:50 PM
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4. It's a cultural oddity but nowhere near being banned
although, yes, you'd be put on some sort of list at Border's or Barnes and Noble if you'd bought the sucker for anything but cash.

Cash, by the way, is the great anonymizer.
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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:51 PM
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5. no you're safe
Nah, I worked for Borders for years, no lists are kept
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:53 PM
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7. I love the idea that Border's keeps lists
It's so laughable. On what grounds would one justify the expense of such lists to the shareholders? It's just silly.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:51 PM
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6. They sell it in Barnes and Noble
Edited on Sat Apr-22-06 05:54 PM by alcibiades_mystery
Why shouldn't you put it on eBay?

There is no risk. Capital doesn't care about content, which was one of Marx's points. As soon as you put it on the market, it is a part of capital, and its exchange value nullifies any qualitative difference it might have from Danielle Steele.

As one of the previous posters said - and this is the whole doctrine of Marxism in one sentence - "cash is the great equalizer."
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:58 PM
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9. I vaguely remember someone being questioned
by DHS because they bought this book.
I don't remember the entire story about it though.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:03 PM
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12. Well, Ken Starr wanted to know where Monica got her LEAVES OF GRASS
Remember that nonsense??? Oh, for those relatively idyllic days!
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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:06 PM
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13. no
That story turned out to be a hoax
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TAPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 05:57 PM
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8. Right now I'm wrestling with
seriously pornographic playing cards - they're vintage, but man...
We run a "family friendly" show at eBay :)
I'll end up listing them in the Adult/Mature category and take a shower later!
I say go ahead and put it out there.
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WePurrsevere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:19 PM
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15. Sounds like the kind of stuff an extra selling name comes in handy for.
Many I know do for "special" items such as those. :D

The good news is... they'll probably do well behind the curtain in adult.... although don't tell PayPal. Unless they changed it back it's technically against their TOS to pay for such things using them (yeah I know.. silly bs).
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:01 PM
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10. ooh,
that might sell.
do it.
i may have to sell my vintage cope of '3 little socialists'. actually anti-socialism.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:01 PM
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11. Hell, I'm dead meat!
I actually have a couple of political tracts by Sad-damn Hussein!!!! Published by the Iraqi gubmint, and all! Excrutiatingly boring!!!

But hey, that book you have, you can buy it at Amazon...so no worries!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083512388X/103-9830707-1706250?v=glance&n=283155
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:12 PM
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14. Don't Worry About It
Seriously.
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WePurrsevere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 06:26 PM
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16. With all the wild stuff sold on eBay as a fellow seller I wouldn't worry
too much about it. That's probably very tame in comparison to some books I've seen listed. :)
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