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Well, I now have 20 books purchased as part of the sale and Books on Board have $80 of my money.
And it turns out they give a minor extra bonus discount for people who've just newly signed up and go through the checkout immediately with a minimum purchase price, which is nice of them, in addition to the 30% off new member coupon valid for 24 hours from signing up with the expiry time listed in your welcome email, which is also nice of them, but is sadly not applicable at all since apparently the lesser 25% store discount trumps it on recent releases.
Unfortunately, said new member checkout discount does not come with an expiry warning like the coupon, and disappears in just a few hours while you decide to browse the site to see what to get using it, which is… very disappointing.
As a result, I have a bunch of books bought under a secondary test account which are technically not under either my real name or my preferred username since apparently the database is such that neither of those can be changed (and probably not merged/transferred, either), which is also disappointing.
Oh well, guess I won't be using that review submission feature to try and earn extra reward money after all.
With that in mind, back to Kobo where the prices are generally regularly better with coupons, even considering the current BOB sale, although it does turn out that DAW/Penguin books are treated as non-Agency at BOB for Canada, at least, so I'll have something to potentially purchase in the future if Penguin don't ditch Agency prices and become couponable again at Kobo.
The moral of this story: if you're thinking of becoming a new customer because of this sale, plan everything you want in advance and check it out immediately upon signing up.
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