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MacEachaidh · 09-08-2010, 08:15 PM

I have been trying to get a cover for my eBook reader. The distributor in my country is bloody useless, hasn't had them in stock for five months, and can't give me any idea when they'll be getting more. In Korea - where the device is made - a cover is supplied with the unit, but not the models sold in Australia. The Korean website has an online shop, but won't sell to a customer outside Korea.

Ahh, but a company in Germany resells the iRiver covers through Amazon UK. Except they've done a "marketplace" deal with that sales whore, Amazon, so I have to buy through Amazon's website and pay Amazon a major cut on the deal. It's a bloody cover, a simple piece of vinyl textured to seem like leather and with a metal spine inside, that's all it is, but Amazon classes it in its "electronics" category, so I have to pay the same shipping costs as if I was buying a DVD player, which work out to nearly twice the item's purchase price. A vinyl cover for my eReader would cost me nearly 70 US dollars.

I wrote to Amazon's customer service, and got a form-letter reply saying they "apologise" for the "misunderstanding", but that was their system, and was their anything else they could help me with?

Buggerbuggerbuggerbuggerbugger.

There are what claim to be iRiver covers for sale on ebay, but they're Kindle covers, taking advantage of the fact that the dimensions are almost the same, except that the openings for the buttons and connection ports don't match up with the device. I bought an iRiver because I didn't want to step into the maws of Amazon or Apple, and Sony isn't available in Australia, but in many ways it was a seriously bad choice.

I know there aren't many iRiver owners on MR, but can anyone think of any other options for getting a cover, either iRiver or 3rd party?

09-08-2010, 08:15 PM	#11776
MacEachaidh Browser Posts: 745 Karma: 578294 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD	Bloody greedy Amazon!! I have been trying to get a cover for my eBook reader. The distributor in my country is bloody useless, hasn't had them in stock for five months, and can't give me any idea when they'll be getting more. In Korea - where the device is made - a cover is supplied with the unit, but not the models sold in Australia. The Korean website has an online shop, but won't sell to a customer outside Korea. Ahh, but a company in Germany resells the iRiver covers through Amazon UK. Except they've done a "marketplace" deal with that sales whore, Amazon, so I have to buy through Amazon's website and pay Amazon a major cut on the deal. It's a bloody cover, a simple piece of vinyl textured to seem like leather and with a metal spine inside, that's all it is, but Amazon classes it in its "electronics" category, so I have to pay the same shipping costs as if I was buying a DVD player, which work out to nearly twice the item's purchase price. A vinyl cover for my eReader would cost me nearly 70 US dollars. I wrote to Amazon's customer service, and got a form-letter reply saying they "apologise" for the "misunderstanding", but that was their system, and was their anything else they could help me with? Buggerbuggerbuggerbuggerbugger. There are what claim to be iRiver covers for sale on ebay, but they're Kindle covers, taking advantage of the fact that the dimensions are almost the same, except that the openings for the buttons and connection ports don't match up with the device. I bought an iRiver because I didn't want to step into the maws of Amazon or Apple, and Sony isn't available in Australia, but in many ways it was a seriously bad choice. I know there aren't many iRiver owners on MR, but can anyone think of any other options for getting a cover, either iRiver or 3rd party?