Thread: Pricing Anomalies in "Agency" Books
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:42 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by taming View Post
Still 17.52 from Amazon for me and $14.99 from Kobo for me too. My IP address is Canadian, so I get the Canadian Kobo store. I always thought that the Amazon.com (vs amazon.ca) pages had only one price regardless of IP address.
Pulling up Amazon's website will give you the agency set pricing for your region, converted to the currency for the region that uses the domain. For instance, I pull up Amazon.co.uk, and I will get US pricing, but converted to GBP. If I use a UK IP for .co.uk, I get British pricing, in GBP. If I use UK IP on .com, I get british pricing, but converted to USD. I've tested this recently, when I noticed some screwy pricing with a book I wanted. £0.49 in UK, $19.99 in US. When I went to talk to the author about this, he pulled up amazon.com and got the currency converted amount of £0.49. When I pulled up Amazon.co.uk, I got the converted amount of $19.99. It was only until we started using proxies that we got to see the proper regional pricing.
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