Freakout
By LoLWut?? nd Why?? - 16/04/2013 04:01 - United States
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By library book - 10/07/2014 05:27 - United States - Grand Prairie
By Anonymous - 21/04/2021 08:00
By bookworm - 08/06/2019 14:00
I'm very curious as to what that argument was about...
...or the fact that he's had the book for years. O.o
Can't you just say you lost it and then pay the amount needed for the book?
I thought that they'd nullify the late fee if you just replaced whatever is lost at full price.
My understanding is for books that late, the biggest fine they can charge is the price of the book, but still, YDI for returning it several years late. What could have possibly been your excuse?
Probably lost it after throwing it to the floor and mounting piles of clothes and other stuff on top then found it after finally cleaning all the dust bunnies from under his bed and realizing, "Wow! I've been looking for this thing for years!"
maybe it was a very expensive book?
Most libraries have special grace days where if you bring in late books you don't have to pay fines. They do it so they can just get their books back because otherwise everyone is too scared to have to pay for the book(s).
Shhhhh!
Is anyone else bothered by 'I've have had'????
I was thinking the same thing 92. It is incorrect, right?
Yes, it's incorrect. It's like saying "I have have had". Auto-correct, maybe?
Also, is OP Brick Heck by any chance? :D
Well you kinda deserve it for having the book for so long...
only if someone invited a button for that, oh wait they do have one.
At my library, no matter how long you have the book they can only charge as much as the book you had out.
And for arguing with them. I wish I could have heard that conversation.
simple solution remember to turn your books in on time.
My library doesn't even have a book returning time limit, they just send out a letter every month asking you to return it at the most convenient time possible. Is mine the only one like that?
The only solution was to pay the fee. You can't fix a past problem that exceeded a solution with an overdue date of completion.
If you had the book for years, what was even the point of returning it? I can understand I suppose, but you should've retuned it years ago.
If you've had a book for years and the library hasn't reminded you to return it in all that time, I think that's a pretty good indication that you should just keep it. Either that, or offer to pay for a replacement book.
I have accidentally done that before, they just charged me the cost of the book and let me keep it, I think you got ripped off, FYL.
You are exactly right. I've also tried to return late books before and they told me to "just keep it" because they already replaced it. I did however have to pay the value for the replaced book. :P I don't think the OP got ripped off though. The book was probably worth over the $100s to replace.
Have you tried to buy a new book lately? I have. It was almost as expensive as my first car!
Are we talking regular book or college class necessity type of book here? Because the costs of the latter one are about 4-5 times as much as for the first one.
In the States, the average softcover would be around 5-10$, the average hardcover would be 15-25$. Since the OP didn't specify, I think it would be logical to assume the book they had was probably your average novel, not worth more than 30$ or so. I don't know why you would assume the book was worth over 100$ when typically the only books that cost anywhere near that much are university texts, reference books, and collector's items.
132- If it were a college book, by the time OP accrued THAT big a fee, it'd already be outdated. It was a few years, after all. I have yet to hear of a particular edition of a textbook that's lasted for more than one year.
Our library sues you for the book after a year or something. How'd you make it multiple ones?
Because not all library sues.. Mine doesn't..
If you've had it for years, the huge fine surely couldn't have been a surprise.
Sure it could. Even if they had it for years, the library shouldn't need, or be able, to charge them for more than the book was worth. At this point they've probably bought a new copy to replace the book, so they should only be charging OP what it cost them to replace it.
I'm wondering what the argument was about...
Why were you still curious 9 comments later?
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Well you kinda deserve it for having the book for so long...
At least you did the right thing in returning the book.