eBay

There are also sellers on Ebay who will list a book as rare with a hefty markup, even though the book was only released recently. They're more like the Africanized-honey bees buzzing around the beers and sodas at a picnic table.

Google your author name and book title in quotation marks. You will be shocked at what you find.

Never mind copies of your published book listed as used on eBay, I found out quite by accident that a guy in the UK is selling all of Pencil Tip books at inflated prices, and new, not used.  What he does is list them on his eBay page as if he has the book in stock, then when someone orders from him, he goes to our Lulu page and orders the book for the customer and has Lulu ship it to the customer.  He sells a copy of our book, we get paid for the ordered copy when he orders it from Lulu at our sale price, but pockets the difference between what he charges the customer and what he pays to order the book.  So basically he is making $$$ off the backs of Pencil Tip.

I was quite annoyed when I found this out but then a friend pointer out, yes, what he's doing is a little bit cheeky and underhanded, but we're still managing to sell copies of our books to an audience we may not have reached initially.  When I thought of it that way, I kind of calmed down about the whole thing.

As the Canadians used to say, when it was part of the Roman Empire, "Caveat Emptor, eh."

Only as far as Molson's wall. It was too cold for them to stay, so they retreated back to Ireland.