u/Open_Huckleberry429

In the morning, I discovered a rare edition of a Greek work for sale on Vendora. It had been posted within the previous 6-12 hours. I notified u/grimmia right away and they were able to contact the seller and make the purchase within 24 hours. This work tends not to last very long at all after it is posted. Once grimmia had the work in hand, they contacted me, showed photos, and worked with me on express shipping. The package arrived today, well-cushioned and sturdy. I couldn't be happier, both with adding this rare work to my collection, and with grimmia's care and expedition in making the purchase and shipping it to me. I will definitely be reaching out in the future whenever I locate items in Greece that I can't live without.

u/Lionwoman did a great job ordering from a seller on todocoleccion, packaging, and shipping a rather large package (7 volumes) of books from Spain to the US. They arrived today in excellent condition. She kept me well informed throughout the process with timely communication and photos. I will definitely use her again when I need help with making purchases from Spanish vendors who don't want to deal with shipping across the Atlantic.

I've got a question for you experts on 20th-century LOTRs. In my 1991 one-volume LOTR illustrated by Alan Lee, I can't find any printing run number string, but on the inside front flap of the dust jacket there is the number 1091. Is that the printing number from the first run? Or something unimportant?

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u/BoringTelephone9346 was efficient and professional in ordering books from Slovakia and sending them on to the US. The books arrived in great condition. He is based in Germany so I'll happily use him again when I'm shopping on sites in Central Europe that don't ship to the US.

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u/Key_Poem_6762 provided excellent service from South Korea to the US. She ordered the books, reordered when one of the sets was no longer available (having to place seven separate orders instead of just one), packaged three very large (and one very heavy) sets into a secure box, and shipped them to the US. At all steps of the process she kept me well informed of the status of my order. I will happily use her again the next time I order books from South Korea.

I just received a package of books from Poland that u/XarkezPL served as proxy for. They did an excellent job of purchasing the books, inspecting them, asking if I wanted to replace a damaged secondhand volume (I chose not to), shipping them to their international shipment warehouse in Italy, and then posting them to the US. At every step of the process they communicated well and whenever I asked a question, they answered it immediately. I couldn't be happier and plan on using them again (there are always more books in Poland that I want to add to my shelves) as long as shipping from Poland to the US is so "problematic".

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