Thread: Touch Best way to get Kobo touch in Australia?
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Old 02-29-2012, 05:36 AM   #236
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Originally Posted by dmcd View Post
Hardly Normal is now selling Kobo Touch (all colours) in Australia. Sticker price is AUD$149.95 but you can screw them down a bit for a cash sale. Kobo needs to up their product education. Harvey Norman only seem to be stocking Kobo and iRiver readers and don't know a thing about either of them or ereaders in general. None of the salemen, the manager or the techie knew a thing. I asked about battery life. Looked all over the box and at the flimsy in the box. No info. So I sent the salesman off to look at the Kobo site and there was nothing they could quickly find on there either. One has to wonder if Kobo really want to sell these things?

My biggest bugbear is that they don't have a shopping cart on their book site. If I want to buy six books, I have to buy each one individually. They have to bear the cost of six individual credit card charges and I, the cost of six individual international exchange rate charges instead of just one. Then of course there is the aggravation of having to fill out six individual order forms and go to PayPal forms six times. It's unbelievable! Can you show me any other online vendor of any product at all, that doesn't have a shopping cart installed?

Dale
Hmm .. you know what I've never encountered the cart thing as I tend to buy ebooks one at a time. Interesting. Can see how it would be a tad annoying.

With regards the the HN rep not finding any details online regarding the product battery life, that speaks more to his/her poor search/internet skills. It's rather easy to find on their site: http://www.kobobooks.com/touch_tech. I also just checked my box and it had the more conservative battery charge up to 2 weeks spec right there on the side.
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