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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Faulty math. You've spent $50.28, so far you've gotten 6 books-that's $8.38/book. Yes, you have the micropay rebates-but that will increase the number of books you got, not the amount spent.
Assume (to make things come out evenly) you do a little better on the books you purchase with micropay, 'paying' only $8.08/book. That gives you 5 more books for which you've spent no additional money, so you spent a total of $50.28 for 11 books, an average of $4.57/book.
Now that's not bad so I'm not denigrating the deal you achieved, just showing the correct way to calculate the per book price.
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With the current 40-60% rebates that are being applied even to Micropay purchases it is easy to achieve about $2.50/book, even with initially buying expensive books with 100% rebates to get the credit.
The correct calculation is of course the amount of real money spent divided by the total number of books obtained after using up your credit.
I just bought 4 expensive books for $55, getting $56 in rebate (one only had 60% rebate instead of 100%, but the large transaction bonus for the $50 purchase gave me enough extra to get 100% + $1). I then bought 12 books and 3 short stories with some of that that credit. So, discounting the short stories, I got 16 books for $55 or $3.44/book, already a great deal. However I still have $27 in credit left. I've just bought so many books this month I have to figure out what else I want!
-Marcy