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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Jon I’m not going to hijack this thread going back and forth with you. A business like a publisher sees any time you do not buy a book you’re interested in as a lost sale. This isn’t a hard concept to grasp.
None of your disagreement or personal views on this will change that. And in this case it’s the publishers view which matters because that’s what is driving their decision making progress.
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That does seem like a stretch of the definition of a "lost sale". Googling a definition came up with:
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Lost sales are those selling opportunities that you have lost because an item was out of stock or because you do not carry a particular brand or line of merchandise or any other reason that caused you to lose the opportunity to sell.
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Sounds like Jon is saying that he would never buy it, so there was no opportunity to sell it to Jon, so no lost sale.
Sounds to me like A lost sale would be if they didn't sell it to the library at all.