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Same reason why I'm upset when Temu ships a garbage plastic gadget. Someone must have wanted it, they ordered it, but I doubt that they wanted the quality that showed up. We've all seen the videos of what people think they order vs. what actually shows up. I don't get why you'd go through the trouble of wasting the resources on a scam product, rather than just outright robbing people.

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What if the Temu plastic gadget that you ordered actually turns out to be actually quite good and does what you’d expect it too? I think that’s the real comparison here instead of automatically assuming her books are crap that no one enjoys. Obviously enough people enjoy her books (some of it anyway) to make her money.

That's absolutely a possibility, we simply don't know that, but they may very well be enjoyed by readers.

People aren't returning the bad Temu products, it's not worth the trouble, could be the same with these books, assuming they are cheap enough.

Are there reviews though? Many readers are always ready to publish reviews of stuff they read, so it's mostly just a matter of finding reviews of works by this author.

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