How do you feel about authors playing with their book prices? - Page 2

fjtorres · 02-23-2014, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I went ahead and bought the book.

I now need someone to blame. --- Who's going to come forth?!!!

Not me.
You talked *me* into getting it.
That and the review scores.

Purple Lady · 02-23-2014, 02:47 PM

I bought it from Kobo for 4.99 with a coupon, and I just looked and it's now 9.99 at Kobo! By the way it's Katsunami's fault I bought it - it was posted in the deals section. I'm currently reading it and it's worth the price I paid.

Purple Lady · 02-23-2014, 02:55 PM

The price at Amazon might be a mistake - the book description has this: " Individually, the complete series costs $20, making the collected edition a 50% savings."

piperclassique · 02-23-2014, 03:05 PM

Nope, sounds right. 77p in UK so I bought it, less than the price of a cup of coffee and should last longer. Heck, at that price it's worth a try.

Katsunami · 02-23-2014, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I bought it from Kobo for 4.99 with a coupon, and I just looked and it's now 9.99 at Kobo! By the way it's Katsunami's fault I bought it - it was posted in the deals section. I'm currently reading it and it's worth the price I paid.

Hey! I got punished for that by having to buy an omnibus Dr. Drib posted in another thread. We'll just have to make Dr. Drib buy any Delphi Classic he doesn't have yet to compensate.

Purple Lady · 02-23-2014, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

Hey! I got punished for that by having to buy an omnibus Dr. Drib posted in another thread. We'll just have to make Dr. Drib buy any Delphi Classic he doesn't have yet to compensate.

Yeah, but he benefited by getting this book for $0.99 so there needs to be a bigger penalty.

Katsunami · 02-23-2014, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Yeah, but he benefited by getting this book for $0.99 so there needs to be a bigger penalty.

Hm, yeah. He caused me to go and buy a book for full price (I'll omit the Kobo coupon for convenience's sake, and to make this look more gruesome), and then he bought the one *I* posted for just 20% of my posting price, which was *already* a deal. Now he got 5 books for $0.25 each, which is just even *more* ridiculous than the $1 we've paid.

That's not very nice. He should have waited until the book I posted was back up to $9.99, so you and I wouldn't need to feel ripped off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Not me.
You talked *me* into getting it.
That and the review scores.

And he did it to poor fjtorres too. This is going too far. I don't care too much about paying a bit more, but having a roaming moderator causing book buying seduction and subsequent bank account destruction is completely unacceptable.

Should we ask the other mods to ban him from the Deals Forum for a month, so he'll pay way too much for everything?

crossi · 02-23-2014, 04:29 PM

I wish authors and or publisher would play more with the prices. There are some books I would like to buy but they are overpriced. Twice what most other books in the young adult genre are selling for. Don't get me wrong, they are good books, but not twice as good as what I bought instead. They are not selling so most other potential customers are of the same opinion. Their Amazon sales ranking for her books range between 200,000 and 350,000. Dismal. Don't the publishers even look at the sales data?

Victoria · 02-23-2014, 04:42 PM

I don't mind Indie authors experimenting with the price. We need them to make a living

I do mind paying geo-penalties to publishers for no good reason. Example from five minutes ago: 'All the President's Men' at Amazon $12 for Americans, $17 for me ( Canadian with a US Amazon account). But authors trying to make a living, no problem.

taming · 02-24-2014, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Victoria

I do mind paying geo-penalties to publishers for no good reason. Example from five minutes ago: 'All the President's Men' at Amazon $12 for Americans, $17 for me ( Canadian with a US Amazon account). But authors trying to make a living, no problem.

When Amazon first set up the Canadian store there seemed to often be a difference in price for Canadians buying from the US store, and from the Canadian store. Usually, buying from the US was cheaper. That appears to have changed. All the President's Men" is $16.99 CAD at amazon.ca. Given the exchange rate, that means it costs less money buying it from the Canadian Amazon, for this book at least.

Dr. Drib · 02-24-2014, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

Hey! I got punished for that by having to buy an omnibus Dr. Drib posted in another thread. We'll just have to make Dr. Drib buy any Delphi Classic he doesn't have yet to compensate.

Ack!

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02-23-2014, 02:47 PM	#17
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	I bought it from Kobo for 4.99 with a coupon, and I just looked and it's now 9.99 at Kobo! By the way it's Katsunami's fault I bought it - it was posted in the deals section. I'm currently reading it and it's worth the price I paid.

02-23-2014, 02:55 PM	#18
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	The price at Amazon might be a mistake - the book description has this: " Individually, the complete series costs $20, making the collected edition a 50% savings."

02-23-2014, 03:05 PM	#19
piperclassique A garbling groftpot Posts: 974 Karma: 9234667 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: France Device: Oasis, Voyage, Kobo mini, Samsung tablet, phones, whatever.	Nope, sounds right. 77p in UK so I bought it, less than the price of a cup of coffee and should last longer. Heck, at that price it's worth a try.

02-23-2014, 04:29 PM	#23
crossi Guru Posts: 992 Karma: 12000001 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Wahington U.S. Device: kindle	I wish authors and or publisher would play more with the prices. There are some books I would like to buy but they are overpriced. Twice what most other books in the young adult genre are selling for. Don't get me wrong, they are good books, but not twice as good as what I bought instead. They are not selling so most other potential customers are of the same opinion. Their Amazon sales ranking for her books range between 200,000 and 350,000. Dismal. Don't the publishers even look at the sales data?

02-23-2014, 04:42 PM	#24
Victoria Wizard Posts: 1,013 Karma: 19767610 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia Canada Device: ipad, Kindle PW, Kobo Clara; iphone 7	I don't mind Indie authors experimenting with the price. We need them to make a living I do mind paying geo-penalties to publishers for no good reason. Example from five minutes ago: 'All the President's Men' at Amazon $12 for Americans, $17 for me ( Canadian with a US Amazon account). But authors trying to make a living, no problem.

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