First post on MobileRead, but a lurker on this thread and the "Volcanoes" thread.
After all these posts, I still haven't the foggiest idea on the best way to get a KoboTouch in Australia. I'm glad most people here have had recent success ordering from Borders.com, but I'm now extremely wary of ordering through that website with all the talk of it folding within days. No mention at all of it going under on the website itself, though - I don't know what to think.
Special thanks to portablejim for maintaining the table of orders/deliveries, very helpful in estimating delivery times.
(assuming Borders.com doesn't just evaporate soon)
Anyone have any success ordering from Chapters Indigo? One person mentioned they wouldn't deliver to Australia, but they also said the same thing about Borders in the same post, and that has since been proven wrong.
Borders Australia is
still pretending the Kobo Touch doesn't exist and the
wildly overpriced Wifi version is completely "out of stock". I will be shocked if the Touch appears there for less than $200 anytime soon. Do they think we can't see the rest of the internet? Do they not want our money?
What do I do? I want to buy two of them! I'm trying to spend about $300 AUD here and have to jump through hoops with crappy websites and US mailing address rubbish! Throw me a freakin' bone here... Or in the words of Phillip J. Fry, "Shut up and take my money!"
*Sigh* Rant over... I'll get one eventually, I guess
