I’ve been keeping my eye on a book I want that’s not coming out until July 2 (Ben Pastor’s
The Night of Shooting Stars). I saw today that the price had dropped to $9.99 from $11.49, not the buy of a lifetime, but it’s movement. I thought of pre-ordering it just to lock in that price while I thought about it, knowing that if the price went down further, I’d get it the lower price (and usually there’s a big dip in the price of Bora books right about the time they come out).
But!
I wasn’t entirely confident, so I dug a little and was displeased to come across the following:
Quote:
|
The Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to qualifying items displaying the offer message on their product detail pages. Items that do not display the offer message do not qualify, regardless of the nature of the items.
|
This was new to me. Granted, I don’t buy a lot of Kindle books and I pre-order virtually nothing at all, but I still thought that the pre-order price guarantee was a blanket guarantee on all Kindle pre-orders, ensuring you got the lowest price once you ordered it while protecting yourself from a price increase. It seems not. Was this always the case with Kindle books, or is it a new limitation?
The guarantee, obviously, isn’t on the book page. At $9.99, I don’t feel as if this is the best I can do so I shall play chicken and hope that even if the price goes back up, it’ll go down again in the next three months before it’s released. It won’t kill me to wait on it, either.
I’m pretty sure I’ve listed it at ereaderiq so none of this is world-changing, but I’m curious in terms of future purchases.