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Originally Posted by sufue
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I hope that maybe they are trying to "calibrate" the offer, and if enough people don't buy in (pun intended), maybe they'll go back to something a little more modest. I've been out for the last two? three? because they were just too much in too short of a time, even though I normally buy a lot of books. And even though if I get close organically, I'll try to find one more book to push me over, but I haven't even been close on the last few.
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I'm out, now. I had $3 credit in hand and a book on my wishlist dropped from $9.49 to $5.49. Done. And since my MO was to roll over the credit on the $10 and $15 promotions, that's it. The program will have to last a long, long time before the piddling number of points you get for a regular purchase reaches the $3 level for me again and my points will most likely start expiring before that happens.
All else being equal, I'd rather buy from Kobo although I have no objection to buying Kindle books. And I vastly prefer Kobo's straight-up recurring gc promotion. I know it's a big outlay, but the credit's not going anywhere unlike the ticking clock on the Kindle credits. Also, you double up on the Rakuten kickback on a gc and then a book purchase, which more than offsets Amazon's regular points anyway.