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I rarely pay "full price" for a book, since I've got plenty to read and I generally don't feel as if I need to read something now. At a minimum, I can wait on developments.
So if/when I do pay full price or what I consider to be a lot, say roughly $15 or more, it's most likely a combination of I've waited and the price is never going to get any lower and I do want to read it, if not now, soonish. It helps if I've got "funny money" I can use, promotional credit of one stripe or another.
The flip side of this is that I purge my wishlist at times of just those books that are never going to get any cheaper and that since I've not wanted to read them enough to convert to purchase by now, the odds are I never will. I like to keep my wishlists lean, in the sense of who am I kidding? I've already got hundreds (and hundreds) of unread books and wishlists of similar length serve no purpose. I'm not going to live forever and there will always be new and compelling books.
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