On my side, I'm
trying to buy the trilogy of
The Lord of the Rings, same hardback / illustrated by Alan Lee that I had for
The Fall of Numenor, a real delight.
But I'm failing miserably, I literally have a stack of damaged books that were sent by Amazon and that I'll have to return. So far I could get 2 of the 3 books in good state, but the middle one seems impossible to get in proper condition, no matter which warehouse it's sent from.
I realize now that I buy most of my books in electronic format now, so I don't have this problem too often, but when I buy physical books from Amazon I often have to return them one or even several times. The fact they are not protected as they were a few years ago doesn't help, it's often due to the transport. But this time, since the parcels themselves looked undamaged and the books didn't have the usual publisher's wrapping, it means they've shipped the books in that state to begin with and that they had been previously returned by other customers, which is not great.
They do look like they've been moved around a lot, nothing like a new item.
The publisher is in the UK so with Brexit, there aren't many alternatives to avoid customs, who often damage the goods when they inspect the packages. So I'm doing my best to harass Amazon but they don't seem to care one bit.
You'd think that in 2022 we wouldn't have issues with deliveries anymore...