As of this writing there are 15 separate Amazon sellers claiming to have new and used copies of my print-on-demand book. Their prices range from $12 to $888.
I haven't called their bluff to see whether they are just lazily-evaluating the book (buy it from Amazon and drop-ship) or whether they are printing copies themselves. I suspect the former, but the latter would be exceedingly clever too.
There is no way to report spammers or otherwise find out what the hell is going on, and I gather Amazon is uninterested in fixing the problem. Either way they make money.
I think the really interesting thing here is that the seller that is reselling your book for $800 has what I would call a pretty good seller reputation, at 92% positive out of almost 1000 ratings. Crazy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1461178185/sr=/qid=/r...
I haven't called their bluff to see whether they are just lazily-evaluating the book (buy it from Amazon and drop-ship) or whether they are printing copies themselves. I suspect the former, but the latter would be exceedingly clever too.
There is no way to report spammers or otherwise find out what the hell is going on, and I gather Amazon is uninterested in fixing the problem. Either way they make money.