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Do many used book sellers that sell through Amazon.com or Ebay ALSO buy these books used over internet?

do they find books that are listed on Amazon or Ebay for a cheap price, buy them, and then resell them at a HIGHER price? is this really ethical? which percentage do this and how else they do this? thanks for your answers!

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1. I don't know what was unsatisfactory about the answers you got the first time you asked this question. I answered it completely and accurately. So as I said before, of course they do, how else are they supposed to turn a profit or pay their employees? I know for a fact they do that with used books on Amazon, since you can sell books back to amazon in exchange for a gift card and they are sold by Amazon to third-party used book sellers. What did you think they print the books themselves or that they are running a charity? Of course it's ethical. That's business.
2. It's called business A business owner's goal is to sell something and turn a profit from selling these items. To achieve this, they need to buy low, sell high. There are many sellers on both eBay and Amazon that - don't know how to price their product - set their prices so low hoping it will be bid upwards, only to end up selling their items dirt cheap - are just plain stupid and don't know how to sell For others, sellers like the above present an opportunity -- an opportunity to scoop up these dirt cheap products and sell them at a higher price