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Originally Posted by issybird
Hmm. Over how many books were the bank charges amortized? And by what percentage did they raise the price of each book? And, most important, how many books would have been unbought had you anticipated the charges? Critical info is missing.
Not trying to give you a hard time. This is just rueful recognition that even as we think we've got it figured out, the ebook gods throw us a curve.
I was lucky with India. During the 90% off madness, I was charged only a few pennies per transaction. So it certainly can't be worse for books that were essentially free.
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I bought the books individually. they cost £0.01 or £0.02 each. The bank charge for each transaction was £1.00, 50 to 100 times the cost of the book.
Some of them I would not have bought if I'd expected such a fee, or I might have tried to purchase them with a browser that gave me access to the basket option (which would have reduced the fees to £1.00 for all the books).
Certainly a lesson learned.