okay I have a friend who owns a Chihuahua

now for the last few  month I have been finding some books to order and have sent to her

now would you belive twice now the two books I have have request for her  -were canceled due to non response from the other member?

and of course that book is the only copy in the system

now I"m trying a 3rd time

hope 3rd time is a charm this time I'm trying Chihuahuas for Dummies

I have found that when there is only one book in the system... it is often not a hot moving item and was most likely posted a long time ago by someone who doesn't come check their accout much.

I have also found that if I'm the only person wishing for a book - it takes a long time for someone who has it to post it!  Can't win sometimes.

There is a thread in the book bazaar called "1/1 on Wishlist" where you can post books where you are the only wisher and maybe remind people about a book they have just sitting around.  I wouldn't have thought it would necessarily be that effective, but I had no less than 10 of my 1/1 WL books offered after I posted in that thread.

... when I post a book that is wishlisted by only one or two people that I like to send them a PM before they accept.

The reason why is I have found out that a lot of the times when they are a single wisher that the book will time out and of course that means it drops off of their wishlist. I keep track of these time outs and see if they end up ordering that WL book later on.

Kevin

I've noticed that if there's only one wisher and that person declines or lets the offer time out, someone else seems to come along and order the book pretty soon.