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Seriously, though, how could they possibly know the demographics of the visitors to this site?
It does say it's a "rough estimate". |
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| quote: Originally posted by embroiderer:
Hey! In America "Whatever" is usually what teenage girls say when caught in a difficult to answer situation.
Seriously, the internet knows eeevvvrryything.
In the UK they say, "Am I bovvered?" Of course, the internet knows everything! That explains it! |
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| quote: Originally posted by philnic:
Salamander was, like, "This site says that most of the people that come to this Bradbury site are girls, specifically teenage girls."
And I was, like, "Whatever".
Seriously, though, how could they possibly know the demographics of the visitors to this site?
They couldn't, unless every single person gave personal information in their membership profile and they viewed every one of them. A lot of one or two-time visitors are kids with homework assignments. Maybe I'll finish my project of deleting insincere members someday. I do know of two horror stories of mailing books directly to Ray which occurred to members on this site. Something Ray said regarding one of these implied that he handles a lot of this himself. |
| | | Posts: 7329 | Location: Dayton, Washington, USA | Registered: 03 December 2001 | 
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| quote: Originally posted by dandelion:
I do know of two horror stories of mailing books directly to Ray which occurred to members on this site. Something Ray said regarding one of these implied that he handles a lot of this himself.
So are you going to tell us?
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| | | Posts: 6909 | Location: 11 South Saint James Street, Green Town, Illinois | Registered: 02 October 2002 |
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| I can't remember if I mentioned this before or not, but someone sent Ray a box of books to sign with a self-addressed, stamped box with full postage inside the outer box. Ray wrote the person back saying they hadn't sent postage. They replied they had. He sent the books back, signed, in another box. Not only was the self-addressed, stamped box missing, but so was one of the books! This was a full-length hardcover! It seems impossible for even a blind person to mistake a box with a book of this size as empty, but Ray said the box and the book were thrown out, it was "a shame" and he "can't see worth a damn." They have certainly never turned up.
The other person had excellent luck with a cheap paperback, but priceless hardcovers suffered damage. |
| | | Posts: 7329 | Location: Dayton, Washington, USA | Registered: 03 December 2001 |
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| OK, thanks.
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| | | Posts: 6909 | Location: 11 South Saint James Street, Green Town, Illinois | Registered: 02 October 2002 |
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| quote: Originally posted by dandelion:
I can't remember if I mentioned this before or not, but someone sent Ray a box of books to sign with a self-addressed, stamped box with full postage inside the outer box. Ray wrote the person back saying they hadn't sent postage. They replied they had. He sent the books back, signed, in another box. Not only was the self-addressed, stamped box missing, but so was one of the books! This was a full-length hardcover! It seems impossible for even a blind person to mistake a box with a book of this size as empty, but Ray said the box and the book were thrown out, it was "a shame" and he "can't see worth a damn." They have certainly never turned up.
The other person had excellent luck with a cheap paperback, but priceless hardcovers suffered damage.
For what it is worth, in the early days of my book collecting I sent Ray books with the return postage in the shipping box and I was told , after a while, that I had not included the postage and no more would be forthcoming, cease and desist. I did. It is wonderful that so nice a person as Ray would take the time to do little favors for his fans when he needs not the bother and trouble this all must be for him. He radiates in the glow of the admiration from his fans and that is his best paycheck, these days. |
| | | Posts: 847 | Location: Laguna Hills, CA USA | Registered: 02 January 2002 |
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