Too Good to be True

I received a gift card for Christmas from my in-laws and headed directly to amazon to order two CDs (Perry Como and Dean Martin Christmas albums) and a book or two. I found a copy of The Best of James Herriot which was described as "Very Good Condition with Very Good Condition Dust Jacket". All that for a dollar. So I placed the order and waited all so patiently for the slowest of all postal delivery options...economy mail. The book arrived yesterday and, needless to say, the description was too good to be true. Underneath the packing slip, which clearly stated the glowing description of the book, was a book without a dust jacket covered with grime, a discolored cover, and hundreds of light brown moldy spots along the page edges. And the worst offense was the smell of mold and damp when I opened the book. I am still ticked but more than that I am befuddled over the conscience of a person who could place that book and the packing slip together and ship it off to a paying customer. Yes, it was only a dollar but how much does honesty cost?

This is me sulking...