David Day in Costco

The latest reprints are especially gifty and very cheap, enticing the unaware to buy a book or two for a Tolkien reading loved one is the name of the game with these books.

I have certainly received a few over the years and they quietly get recycled into ash.

Has anybody here managed to avoid the odd DD gift?

onthetrail wrote:

Has anybody here managed to avoid the odd DD gift?

I've managed to so far. But only by virtue of them thinking I have everything already (unless I put something on a wish list publicly, I don't get any Tolkien books as gifts ?)

Urulókë wrote:

onthetrail wrote:

Has anybody here managed to avoid the odd DD gift?

I've managed to so far. But only by virtue of them thinking I have everything already (unless I put something on a wish list publicly, I don't get any Tolkien books as gifts ?)

I have in the past, but these days, like Urulókë, I don't get Tolkien books as gifts as it is assumed that if I want it, I already have it (or can't afford it).

Day's work is pure gift market exploitation. And he is - from personal online experience - a dick who doesn't like negative reviews for his endlessly recycled books.

What I want to do some day, is visit my national book store chain; and move ALL the David Day books from 'T' (Tolkien) down to 'D'; where they hopefully might get forgotten about.

insurrbution wrote:
What I want to do some day, is visit my national book store chain; and move ALL the David Day books from 'T' (Tolkien) down to 'D'; where they hopefully might get forgotten about.

You could probably just burn them in the store. No sane judge would ever convict.

Urulókë wrote:I've managed to so far. But only by virtue of them thinking I have everything already (unless I put something on a wish list publicly, I don't get any Tolkien books as gifts ?)

To be fair I have not had one for over 20 years for that same reason.

In fact I don't recall any Tolkien gifts since other than a Bilbo Baggins pipe more recently.