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Old 02-18-2025, 08:45 AM   #345
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I'm seeing the message too now. I have several suitable E-Ink kindles, but this does make me consider moving to buying from Kobo.
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Yea, I'd consider Kobo, but for the fact that when I did a cursory search of the same title books on kobo and amazon, kobo seemed to be higher priced. Plus I look at amazon deals of the day and get some good ones that way, ultra cheap. I'm reading the omnibus edition of the first three books of Dragonriders of Peru I got for 1.99.
You express my thoughts on moving purchasing away from Amazon. But I decided to give it a go, as I was also told that Kobo will do price matching to Amazon prices, + an extra 10%.

So I decided to take advantage of a recent Kobo offer of £70 in giftcards for £60. (Buy a £60 giftcard and get an additional £10 gift card.) So The extra gift card arrived in email this morning, so I have £70 in store credit that cost me £60.

I had some hassle buying the giftcard, so contacted cusromer service, who sent me a one-off 90% discount code, which I used to buy VIP membership. So £60 got me £69.40 in credit.

And today I need to buy a book club book. At Amazon it's £5.99. At Kobo it's £5.39 (10% off for VIP members), and as I haven't used Kobo for ages, the save30 discount code works, so I get another 30% off, taking it to £3.65. Taking into account to £69.40 in credit for £60, that's another 13.5%, taking actual cost to £3.16, a 47% discount.

It's possible that I'll end up being pleased Amazon have stopped D&T, and made me look at Kobo again.

I'll have to try out their price matching on the next book.
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