A couple of months ago I picked up a hardcover book without a dustjacket at a book sale. I recently posted the book and saw that it was wishlisted. The first two people who were offered the book had requestor conditions for dust jackets, so of course I couldn't send it to them. Since then I have had the book offered to four more people with no response each time. Tonight it will roll over to the seventh person to be offered this book. I just checked and there are 128 people on the wishlist for this book. It was released in late 2009. I understand I am doing my part by working through inactive members, I just wish this book would be requested so I could send it out!

Wow- vent away!  That beats my record for the most people a book has rolled over to!  I imagine that since it's summer, a lot of people are on vacation or are otherwise busy, and failed to put their bookshelf on hold.  All you can do is be patient...there has to be at least 1 out of 128 who will want the book!

I'm in a similar situation. I listed a hardcover that's soon to come out in paperback. It has over 100 wishers and I went through 1/2 dozen of them so far. It just keeps either getting declined or timing out and rolling on to the next requester. I think some people may have had it on their wishlist so long they forgot it was even there. So I'm just going to treat it like a book on my bookshelf rather than one on wishlist and if it ever gets requested - great. If not, no big deal.

My record is going through 7 people.  A couple were autorequests that were cancelled though. So it didn't take a full 2 wks

Bummer!  Waiting for a wish list to be requested is always disappointing.  I think the record (if I remember correctly) is around 13 members.  Hopefully yours will be requested before it gets there.  :)

My personal record is 20 people and none of them ended up wanting the book ! I don't recall anyone cancelling before the 48 hours was up, but of course I wasn't watching it the entire month and a half it was on wish list hold. I posted the book somewhere else and now of course there is someone wishing for the book again.

My record is five people not responding until the request expired and moved to the next (out of a waitlist of about 12).  The sixth person was very happy to get the book.  I didn't mind waiting.  I knew that someone would want it eventually, even if it had gone through the entire list.

Wow!  I've been extremely lucky!!  I don't think I've ever had a book go through more than three wishers before someone actually wanted it.

I think my record is 7 also, although that was a few years back now...recently it's been 2 or 3 when it's not snapped up right away. Wow, 20!! That would be totally frustrating!

Cheryl

Twice I have been told that a book on my wish list was available but that I lost the opportunity because I hadn't responded in 48 hours, when I had never received the original email. And it wasn't in my junk mail. They were books I really wanted. I suspect this happens pretty often, given that so many of you have posted that you have "gone through" so many requestors. I seem to get all of the other emails from PBS, except for the ones notofying me of a book on my wish list being avilable. Funny thing about that.

Maybe there was a glitch in the system, you might want to report that to PBS.  I've never missed an email that I was signed up for, I get repeat ones on occasion. 

You can put your wish list books on auto request so that will never happen again. 

Wow, I had no idea that this happened so often that people keep personal records. I'm with Laura, I don't think I've had a Wish Listed book run through more than three memebers. I gotta start keeping track now, just for my own amusement.

Pam -- check your Club Communications page. If you see the emails there and you didn't get them, then the problem is on your side. Check your spam/junk folders and make sure you have the librarian's email address on your safe senders list or in your address book.

UPDATE

The seventh wisher never responded and it rolled over to the eighth person. They must have declined this afternoon, so I am now on the ninth wisher.

I have all my wish list books on automatic acceptance so I don't miss any of them. the only time I have declined one would be when its a series and I would be holding on to an out of order book to long.