Thread: Kobo Website - Search not working
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Old 02-10-2013, 09:15 PM   #20
davidfor
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Originally Posted by HarleyB View Post
I have also deleted cookies (several times), tried other browsers and also tried my daughter's brand new lap top and my husband's mac.
So far the only thing that works is to stay logged out until I want to confirm a price (due to the prices sometimes changing when I log in), naviagate to a book, click the buy now button and then only sign in when prompted. Then I can either buy the book or if the price jumps up too much I go back and log out to check another book.
A way to do it, is to use two browsers. One is logged in, the other isn't do. Use one to do the search, and then copy the URL for the book to the other where you are logged in to buy. That is what PeterT was suggesting. Still not as good as it just working, but it might be less painful than what you are doing.
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David are you finding that the prices are changing when you log in? It's not on all books (probably just the ones I really want!!) I wondered if kobo thought I was in the US (where books tend to be cheaper) and so that's why the price increased when I logged in and they discovered I was in Australia?
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Originally Posted by HarleyB View Post
For example "The Shifting Fog" by Kate Moreton is $3.99 but when I log in it jumps up to $5.95.
I hadn't noticed different prices. But, I can see it with that book. The logged out price says "$3.99 List price: $4.54 You save: 12% ($0.55)" but the logged in is simply "$5.95". I'm a bit surprised they aren't doing the logged out price based on IP address to give an Australian price. I wonder if the price is a Canadian or US price. Or somewhere else.

It looks like it is book specific, or maybe publisher. I picked a couple of other books and they all had the same price when logged in or out. The books that had the same price didn't have the list price/discount.
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