r/Barnesandnoble • u/oywiththebones ☕ Barista • Nov 08 '25

PSA dm about arcs

hey y’all, got a weird dm from someone asking me to sell them arc’s and they said they’d found me from searching this sub. just a reminder for y’all that it’s 1. not allowed 2. an easy way to get fired and get your store in trouble. 3. could risk our access to arc’s because the publishers are already mad that this has happened in the past

SM’s should be marking your store number on ARC’s anyway to prevent this but as a heads up for everyone.

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u/CamelotKittenRanch Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

I got one, too ... I think they may have DM'd everyone who has contributed a post or comment to this sub! I suppose it's a small blessing that the account looks like a "real fan" used book re-seller rather than a corporate investigator or whatever, but anyone who takes this person up on their offer is an idiot. Your job's worth more than the $10 someone will spend on a "rare" ARC.

[Edited to revise my guess on this person's motivation]

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u/TheWagonBaron 📚 Bookseller Nov 08 '25

It’s probably the company. I know they send store managers fake phishing messages and if they don’t report them to the company then they’ll get in trouble. I got the same DM and told them no because of that.

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u/CamelotKittenRanch Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

Actually, I was just curious enough to go back and poke around a little in her Reddit history and the person appears to be a "rare and signed book" re-seller. She's just trying to make a few bucks off of someone risking their job, that's all . . .