The Diary of a Bookseller

SATURDAY, 15 NOVEMBER

Online orders: 2

Books found: 2

Nicky stayed overnight and opened the shop this morning.

First telephone call of the day:

Caller: ‘I am just calling to confirm your advertisement in Crime Prevention Publication. We’ve got you down for a quarter-page advert. You agreed to it when you signed up back in August’, followed by some unconvincing flannel about circulation and readership etc.

Me: ‘I don’t remember any such conversation, and I would never advertise in anything called Crime Prevention Publication. It sounds like you’ve just made it up.’

Caller: ‘But you agreed, back in August; it’s all written down here.’

Me: ‘I don’t think so. What’s your number and I’ll check and call you back?’

They hung up.

Oh, the irony. Crime Prevention Publication scam. This sort of call happens about twice a year. Quite often the publication I have supposedly agreed to sponsor will be called something like Be Nice to Sick Children.

Till total £145.98

20 customers