[kiwipippa]

This probably only effects New Zealanders and perhaps Australians. Something weird has happened to kobobooks.com pricing this morning. Most of the NON AGENCY books appear to have almost doubled in price.

This morning I went to buy a book for the weekend that listed ("Our Price" non agency) at $5.29 NZD (Girl at the Lion d'Or). When I went "Buy Now" it said the order total was $10.59.
Dance with Dragons was $10.59 - order total then showed as $20.69
I cleared my cache thinking perhaps I'd added it twice or something, then tried on my phone, Kobo touch and son's ipod - same problem on all of them (except touch just had the single - higher - price). I randomly checked a whole bunch of non agency books and they all did the same thing.

This afternoon it got worse, all the "Our prices" are the same as the Order total prices were this morning - ie doubled in price. But the weird thing is that the "list price" has also nearly doubled, as has the "Our Price".

I have logged a ticket for this as there is no way I am buying books at that price and I am hoping it is simply a glitch of some sort given they are non agency books.

Can someone else in NZ check to see if they are seeing the same thing? If you have had books in your wish list you may recall what they were priced at and have a look and see if they have increased.

It had better be a glitch - with their recent move to agency price Hachette and associated books, pricing is already non-competitive, yet alone adding this to the mix. Poor Nathan at Kobo will be getting sick of me complaining about prices, but this really is weird as it is non-agency related!