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I bought a DSM 5 for my wife on Amazon last week. Price was $50.00 from a 3rd party while Amazon was selling it for $101.00. When the book arrived from India however, it was obviously a poor-quality Xerox copy of an original. Not a professional job at all. If it was for myself, I may have kept it but I would have felt guilty about saving money by buying a pirated book.
Luckily I noticed it right away and returned it and paid full retail for a legit copy.
This is more is a "shopping and consumer products" issue than a Psychology issue.
I would report the seller to Amazon as well. Amazon would not support sellers that violate copyright laws. I once bought some Clinique moisturizer from a seller on Amazon, and it turned out to be a counterfeited bottle, with some home-mix of moisturizer inside. I reported the seller to amazon, and I don't know what happened, but the seller, by that name, is no longer on Amazon.
This is more is a "shopping and consumer products" issue than a Psychology issue.
Well OK but if a mental health professional is shopping for a DSM 5 and spots this "great deal" on Amazon they are more likely to have seen my warning here. The DSM 5 is not really a "consumer product".
Sure it is. It's a copyrighted product that might be forged or counterfeited, resulting in fraud with damages to the consumer and the publisher.
It also seems that LOTS of people not in the behavioral health field buy the DSM. just look at all the posters on this site who like to diagnose themselves and others
And those of us in the field know that it costs over $100, so a $50 version would send up red flags.
I bought a DSM 5 for my wife on Amazon last week. Price was $50.00 from a 3rd party while Amazon was selling it for $101.00. When the book arrived from India however, it was obviously a poor-quality Xerox copy of an original. Not a professional job at all. If it was for myself, I may have kept it but I would have felt guilty about saving money by buying a pirated book.
Luckily I noticed it right away and returned it and paid full retail for a legit copy.
DSM-V continues to receive high criticism amongst professionals in the field of psychology, social work, psychiatry..
I say, the pirated version saved you much more money on a piece of junk!
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