04-04-2018, 09:55 AM | #46 |
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Oh, yeah, I assume they will as well. But that doesn't stop people from guessing that the launch of any new device will be timed to coincide with Kobo going on sale at Walmart.
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I freely admit I seem to wander by the book aisle rather more often at my local Walmart these days just to see if any Kobos have appeared. Don't know they'd be likely to sell well here. Maybe if the new model is cheap enough. On the other hand it's not like there's any other place in town you could see an e-reader of any kind for sale. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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I would wander into a walmart to take a look at a kobo! If the kobo could sync with icloud that would seal the deal but I know that’s a pipe dream.
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I think that — just maybe — people are beginning to get a little tired of Amazon and might be welcoming some competition (if Walmart really provides it). I think the Kobo partnership was more for online book sales than sales at the stores. I guess we'll see — it's been getting pretty much to the point where you can take what I say and go the opposite direction and usually get it right.
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I'll make a guess that this reader will be in rival to the Oasis. It's name probably refers to the number of LEDs it will have. All I want to know is ppi and price.
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04-05-2018, 10:55 AM | #57 |
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Mine is too, now (it used to be at the front of the store, back when magazines were a bigger draw, I guess). With the introduction of Kobo and Walmart selling e-books and cards for them, merging the two departments makes sense.
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Yes, books are right next to electronics at my Walmart as well. The question is, would an ereader receive more attention if lumped in the electronics section or the book section. I sort of envision a display of a Kobo device right in the book section, maybe touting some of the advantages of ebooks. Something to lure in someone who hasn't tried e-reading yet. Probably won't happen... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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They used to be, anyhow. Their Amazon Marketplace is a joke. Amazon claims to "guarantee" their sellers, but they don't appear to even vet them. My niece bought a phone (it was one of the Moto E4s that had Amazon branding). Her and her sisters had bought four of these earlier (from the same seller) and they wanted a fifth for a friend. But when the phone arrived it was the Verizon branded one (that you could get on Best Buy for about $50 — half the price) and it wouldn't work on the Sprint network (as the phone they ordered would). Apparently the seller ran out of the original phones and tried to slip this one in. "No problem" right? Amazon "guarantees" their sales. My niece requested a return, followed the instructions to the letter, PAID for the return shipping and tracked the phone to the seller's personal lock box. And she waited for her refund ... and waited ... and waited. Finally she got hold of Amazon, they received the tracking information and said that the seller would issue a refund within five days ... next day they get a notice that the seller had appealed, saying he "never got the phone." My brother countered the appeal, showing – again – that the packaged phone was tracked to the seller's personal lock box. Amazon denied that appeal, said he should have gotten "signature" confirmation. My brother appeals again, saying that his daughter followed the instructions to the letter – they did EXACTLY what Amazon requested they do. Again denied "our decision is final." I think there may have been one more appeal – again denied. So, at this point, the last I heard, my niece is out $100 for the phone, plus about $16 for the original shipping and tax, plus about $10 more for the return shipping. All because a lying dirtbag apparently can rip off Amazon customers at will and Amazon will do nothing about it. (This cheat still sells on Amazon's Marketplace.) I've "bought" three items on Amazon's Marketplace (mechanical pencils, small purchases) that never shipped. (In this case, since the shipping never happened, Amazon did not withdraw the money from my account.) But I was left in limbo – were they sales going to go through, or not? Should I look elsewhere for the item? Since the sellers are promoted by Amazon you would think they take some responsibility in the matter. Nope. What they do is give you the contact information for the unresponsive seller and let you wade through the muck. I don't know what these sellers' game was, I'm guessing they wanted me to contact them directly to negotiate the sale and bypass Amazon. One of them "moved" their "location" from New Mexico, to Italy, to Spain in the time it took for the sale to eventually be cancelled. Can you say "fraud?" I'm now leery of buying anything from the "guaranteed" Amazon Marketplace. And, if you look online, I'm not the only one. Amazon, itself – the real Amazon, not one of their bogus "guaranteed" marketers, often slips on promised "guaranteed" shipping dates. They change the arrival date and list the packages as "On Time." The old "on time" arrival date goes down a black hole somewhere. Several times I've paid more for the "Prime" ("guaranteed" two day delivery) item because I needed the part right away. A guarantee is supposed to be a guarantee. And then you read stories about Amazon delivery people, every move tracked by Amazon and so overworked that they're going to the bathroom in people's driveways. Yeah, I'm beginning to not like Amazon. Meanwhile Walmart has a new CEO (a year or two ago) who's starting to treat their employees better and is actually hiring enough people to stock the shelves and clean the stores. He also understands he needs to compete with Amazon online. I don't know if he'll be allowed to fix Walmart, or if the stockholders will begin grumbling about the cost, but at least there are hopeful signs. Two years ago you could hardly drag me into a Walmart. It's still not my favorite place in the world but I go there now (sometimes). And I'm definitely interested in them competing online against Amazon. Someone needs to. Yep. It would be good if Walmart / Kobo came up with something to directly compete with the Kindle Basic (like Kobo's old Touch). |
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