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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Better watch out who you call a liar. These are the sales that I can remember from this year:
100, 50, 50, 45, 35, 30, 30, 30, 30... And the smaller ones we won't bother with. Now most of those smaller ones were on specific genres. There have been a ton of 10-25s. Not even counting individual books (weeks with 8 100% rebate books, plus 35% rebate on author's titles). Then there were at least 2 wishlist specials.
I just ran my spreadsheet that I keep. I think I had emptied my micropay account at the end of last year. Here are the numbers for this year:
(BTW, I noticed this does include two books from Cyberread that I had a discount for)
Items: 115 (and 1 year membership purchase)
List Price: $1,065.42
CC Cost: $445.33
Savings $: $620.09
Savings %: 58.2%
Wow, it was even better than I thought. My overall savings for all books purchased over the 1 1/2 years I have bought from Fictionwise is 53.9%.
Now, we must also include the $83.88 micropay dollars in my account right now, and 1 free book coupon that I haven't used (there was a 100% rebate on membership a few weeks ago).
Looking at my records, the last member's 100% rebate sale was around June 20th, 2009.
Also, keep in mind that I am pretty lazy. Many of my purchases are on Sunday night before a sale ends (  ). All I do is check my email, and the new books list each Monday. Then I jump on any decent sale. That is all you have to do. It can be done even without bying $1,000 dollars in books. Just trust in the Micropay. |
Well I really wasn't trying to call anybody a liar, I was more thinking the person was not calculating the discount correctly. FW rebates are tricky most people belive a 100% rebate gives them a book for free. It isn't it's more like a 50% discount. Essentially you need to cut all rebates in 1/2 and that is the true discount.
So in order to get a 60% discount you had to have bought a book at 100% rebate then used the rebate money on a 20% sale to get a 60% discount.
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pdurrant I didn't mean you per say it was more of a generic "you", I should have said "me" as that is who I was really thinking of. I find I do have a long reading list as well, but since I mainly read academic/non-fiction there are books that get preempted from the list and resorted based on recommendations or current need. I definitely have all the patience required to get a good deal when purchasing leisure books.
BTW great topic!
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