I use amazon for buying books for about two years. 99% of those orders go through amazon.de (Germany). Besides one or two of those orders I almost always get a book which is damaged in some way.

- Bent corners - Dirty pages - Bent cover - Folded pages - Some weird sticky substance on covers (???)

I think that amazon does tremendously good job at fining this thin border when it becomes 'a problem' and I issue a return, otherwise I just don't bother because I don't want to waste time packing it again and waiting for delivery service to pick it up.

However, I am starting to be furious. I pay for new book and effectively receive used one, something which never happens with direct buy from any other store. I googled around and found posts from 2012 detailing same issue.

I buy only books from amazon and sad truth is that if I only could - I'll buy elsewhere, but a lot of positions I can find only there + I need delivery to other country and it's impossible to find better rates for shipping than amazon's.

Does anybody experience same level of frustration? We are talking about 100-200 EUR order which is not a pack of m&m's at corner shop. It annoys hell out of me, looking at destroyed pages during reading because I care about my physical books.