I love the library, no one is perfect, I love the library

[smeddley]

...but they still can't find the DVD set I returned a week ago. And I remember returning it vividly - it was the day I'd bought the yellow boucle yarn and I had to fish the DVDs out from under it to return them. And you know how grabby boucle is, so it's something that I actually remember.

Now, the library tells me to give it time. Maybe they'll still find it. Let the fine accrue, and in a month or so it'll freeze my account and I can deal with it then. Though of course that would drive me mad waiting. In the end there's a one time 'claims return' policy they can exercise at their discretion, but it'd be the one and only time I could use it, IF they let me.

Here's the thing - the DVD set is listed with them as $60. I can get it from an Amazon seller for $38.29 shipped (and a seller with good feedback!) right now. If they find it, I'd own a DVD set I might watch again (though then I'd have to buy season 1). If they don't, I've saved myself $21.71 over their price, $11.71 over Amazon's regular price. Hmmm, Deepdiscount.com has it for $40.57 shipped. $40.70 on Overstock shipped, but the shipping rate there is for your entire order, so I could buy more stuff with free shipping. $38.95 shipped from half.com.

What, were it you, would you do? I know if I buy it they'll find it, and if I don't they won't (that just seems the way the universe works for me). And I'm really cranky about it. *grump*

Comments

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Stupid library. Mine once accused me of doing it with a book, and it took three months for them to figure out that someone had checked it out before they blipped it back in. I was so annoyed.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do about it. Suck it up, I suppose. I could look at it as they've saved me far more that $40 over the last few years, but it still hacks me off. I'll at least count that as a 'donation' on my taxes!

[leaper.livejournal.com]

Buy it with a mind to not keep it. If the library doesn't find it, you have a replacment. If they do, return / resell it. If you do give it to the library to replace, try to get some kind of receipt so that if / when they DO find the original, you have some chance of reimbursement.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Probably the plan that will have me least stressed. And I don't mind donating to the library, but, dammit, I didn't lose it, and I don't like being forced, by action, to admit doing something I didn't!

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

I have no idea which option to take, but... gah, libraries. That's happened to me on two seperate occasions with books -- the first time they found it, and the second I had to find it, on a shelf where I'd seen the librarian look not five minutes previously. >_>

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I thought about going to the library it was stocked at an having a look-around, just in case. But it's not exactly convenient. :/

[sv-galena.livejournal.com]

You have not factored in the fine that's accruing. And if they don't find the set, and you hand over the one you bought, are you admitting that you had the DVD's all along?

Maybe the library could give patrons a receipt when they return things. Even at the drop-box they could issue a generic 'returned something' receipt.

I'd use the one-time get-out-of-jail-free option this time. What are the odds they'll mess with you again? Unless you stay in the same town forever the chances are slim.