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Originally Posted by KarenH
Since January I have spent (in real dollars - credit card and/or paypal) just under $500. This includes the cost of my initial Buywise membership, and extending it for 5 years to take advantage of 100% micropay rebate offers. For that $500 I have received books with a value of at least $885. The number is actually higher than that, because I figured it at a straight 15% discount, but quite a few of the purchases were at higher percentages off (anywhere from 20-50%). That is the straight discount off purchase price for Buywise membership I'm talking about, not micropay rebates.
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Clearly buying that amount makes the club worthwhile. I don't think anyone would be confused over the value of it!
Out of interest, were you buying books that you wanted to have available to read, and you now have a nice big library, or was that books that you've mostly read over the year?
Going off on a tangent.. 500 dollars is only 42 dollars a month, which is only £25 a month. Compared to a subscription to cable TV that's not expensive. So while your spend looks like a large amount, it's not that much relative to other forms of entertainment. Certainly 100 books read is better than 1,000 hours glued to the idiot box!