01-13-2010, 01:27 PM | #61 |
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I usually buy in quantities, even ebooks. I like having them on my reader, ready to be opened. Everyone has their own buying habits. A hundred pounds still sounds fine to me, and more, why not? It's not like you spend that amount every day.
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01-13-2010, 01:35 PM | #62 |
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Have to admit that's about how much I spent this morning, but for me that was exceptional but did clear my wish list a lot cheaper than any alternatives.
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01-13-2010, 02:19 PM | #63 | |
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$100 for 8 books is rather cheap, and if I wanted to buy 8 books at one time, why not? All in all, it's of course nice to know they had their system set-up for detecting fraud, but still, it was sort of upsetting. I felt almost like a criminal. |
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01-13-2010, 02:28 PM | #64 |
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Just bought 8 ebooks. That the most I ever bought in one go, and it not pay day either
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01-13-2010, 02:44 PM | #65 |
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Surely it would be better trying to contact you for confirmation, rather than just blocking you without warning... That kind of sends the message that being a good customer is actually punished
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01-13-2010, 02:51 PM | #66 |
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Well I just treated myself to 10 of the Abbadon books. At £25 it was to good to resist. Hopefully it will give Smiths the incentive to keep prices down.
Of course they have all been liberated. |
01-13-2010, 02:51 PM | #67 |
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I love a sale! I bought 3, 2 of Adrain Tchiakovsky's Empire of Black and Gold series and the first in The Painted Man series by Peter Brett.
As ChristopherTD says: Fortunately (for me) their website is awkward to navigate so I can't find anything more that I want just now... ...and how! I emailed their Customer Service just before Christmas after I'd been trying to find a particular book: I've just tried to find a particular ebook on your website. This is not the first time I've had problems finding anything on your site, so thought I'd share the experience on this occasion! I wanted to see if you had 'Devil's Brood' by Sharon Kay PENMAN. I first seached on Devil's Brood and specified 'Title'. This produced 168 hits. Top of this list was: Inflectional Morphology by Gregory T. Stump No.2 was : The Brooding Frenchman's Proposal by Rebecca Winters ....followed by 17 pages of hits, none of which was 'Devil's Brood' [trust me, I looked through them all]. I then searched on 'Sharon Kay Penman' and specified 'Creator'. This produced 500 hits, including such delights as : Allergy and Allergic Diseases by A. Barry Kay Bargaining with the Billionaire by Robyn Donald Colloquial Russian 2 The Next Step in Language Learning by Svetlana Le Fleming and my personal favourite: Celiac Disease A Guide to Living with Gluten Intolerance by Sylvia Llewelyn Bower The Devil's Brood, by Sharon Kay Penman may well have been amongst the 500 but, frankly, I lost the will to live after scrolling through the first 10 pages. So WH Smith lost a sale.....again! I suppose I was a bit flippant but their search engine is torture! Needless to say, their reply was so bland it seemed to be computer generated. Sigh. |
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really hope it does show them that the prices are ridiculous though, not sure how much say the publisher has with prices... |
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The sale still seems to be running. I may steel myself for some more search torture in search of bargains. Someone mentioned Adrian Tchaicovsky above and so I had to go and buy those.
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Oops - I ordered a few more books this mornng. No Problems. Then I tried to order 3 more, and WHAM. I have obviously tripped over their "too many purchases" threshold and now my account is locked.
Hopefully they will unlock my account soon so I can at least download the books I paid for this morning! eBook vendors do so love to shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get... |
01-14-2010, 09:16 AM | #72 |
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Simond I had the same trouble with books on board and I was paying with paypal it took me 3 emails to be able to download but they had my money from paypal the instant I paid
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They seem to have now ended the 50% off offer and now have a 30% off offer, I just found out about it today and was luck to get the 50% of by mere hours, in some ways wish I had bought more
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01-14-2010, 01:41 PM | #74 | |
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Sometimes a useful method is the Google site search; although in this case site:ebooks.whsmith.co.uk penman only finds a bit of puffery she wrote for a Steve Berry book. |
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01-14-2010, 03:33 PM | #75 |
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Sparrow, thanks for that search tip - I hadn't thought to do it that way!
I tried to find WH Smith's reply to my little winge but couldn't.....I didn't save it, unfortunately. Suffice to say whoever wrote it, assuming they were an actual human, had a severe sense of humour failure and couldn't really see what my problem was! 'Nuff said...... |
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