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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I don't think it's a location issue; I think it's a pre-order issue. There have been several threads noting the high cost listed for e-books on pre-order, but once the book was actually available, the price came down to normal levels. I'm not sure why this would happen, but I think that's what's going on.
We should know in 3 weeks, though.
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If it isn't a location issue then why are different people looking at something at the same exact time getting different prices. We're not talking that me and others looked and saw high preorder prices, and el comes along later and sees cheaper prices. Elcreative is seeing $10.46 right now, and myself and others are seeing $16.99 right now.
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Originally Posted by elcreative
And I still see $10.46 as in the pdf I posted... nobody's arguing that in the US you're seeing $16.99 just discussing the extreme peculiarity of logging on to the SAME link and getting differing prices with my posted link showing an Amazon price and the US viewers seeing a $16.99 price under "New from" with no Amazon price... just another Amazon peculiarity...  |
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Originally Posted by elcreative
It may be a geo-restriction peculiarity but, if so, then it is really weird because I clicked on the quoted link and got what is posted in the pdf... and it clearly has the price listed under Amazon price unlike the other post above, as well as saying it is not available in the UK but why does one show an Amazon price (in dollars as the other prices are shown) and the other shows no Amazon price just a New price (also in dollars) for the Kindle version... and both are coming from Amazon.com
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Can you check other multiregion stores and see how the prices are?
For instance, when I was talking to Bob Burke about the Third Pig Ho Ho Ho Mystery price, I'd pull up a link and see $19.99, and he'd pull up that same link and be given a much lower price in USD. What we found out was that it was being detected that he was accessing it from a UK IP address, it was giving the UK price, but since the link was an american one, it did currency conversion and showed him the UK price in USD.
To test this, I pulled up the link given before in this thread, but I used a proxy to give the appearance of being in the UK. And low and behold, was given the $10.46 price. I then pull up the Amazon UK product listing, and the price is listed as £6.39, which works out to be roughly $10.46.
My thoughts. Amazon is smart enough to tell what region you're in and adjust prices to that region, but dumb enough to list the price in the currency of who they think should be accessing that particular site (ie amazon.com for americans, amazon.co.uk for brits, amazon.ca for canucks). Given that they went to extra work to add the currency conversion in on top of region detection for price adjustment, it really makes little sense.