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Old 11-28-2024, 10:47 AM   #17416
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A word of warning: Kobo just renewed my VIP membership automatically yesterday even though I had turned off the auto renew function (I even verified that a week ago). I got the $10 (plus tax!) refunded, but it was surprising hard to get to customer service chat. They seem to have changed the interface.
Thanks for the heads up. I set my auto-renewal to be by Points this year and have more than enough, so I'll keep an eye on whether they charge my card instead.
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Old 11-28-2024, 02:05 PM   #17417
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Yeah, they make you go through an "AI" chatbot (which I'm not entirely convinced is actually AI...)
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Old 11-28-2024, 08:28 PM   #17418
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A word of warning: Kobo just renewed my VIP membership automatically yesterday even though I had turned off the auto renew function (I even verified that a week ago). I got the $10 (plus tax!) refunded, but it was surprising hard to get to customer service chat. They seem to have changed the interface.
Thanks. I'd had my auto-reneweal set to off and it was on. Turned it back to off.

My membership isn't up until end of January so will keep an eye on it.
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Old 11-29-2024, 10:11 AM   #17419
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Yes, I check mine regularly when it's about to renew to make sure it hasn't toggled back to auto renew.
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Old 12-01-2024, 02:59 AM   #17420
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So not had any black Friday discount code for VIP membership anyone got a code
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Old 12-01-2024, 03:28 AM   #17421
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So not had any black Friday discount code for VIP membership anyone got a code
I’m interested in this too.
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Old 12-01-2024, 10:30 AM   #17422
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Haven't seen one. Any regular coupon code works on VIP for a discount.

Last time I needed to renew, I bought the giftcard, got my free $10, and used that free $10 to renew my VIP.
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Old 12-01-2024, 03:28 PM   #17423
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Haven't seen one. Any regular coupon code works on VIP for a discount.

Last time I needed to renew, I bought the giftcard, got my free $10, and used that free $10 to renew my VIP.
There was one in September that I just missed out on and someone got an individual code emailed to them in October. I signed up for emails from them but they never sent me any. First company where I’ve opted in to promotional emails and didn’t immediately got bombarded by emails multiple times per day.
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Old 12-05-2024, 03:57 PM   #17424
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Aside from being part of a specific sale, is there any way to tell how long the discount for a specific book will last?
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Old 12-05-2024, 05:03 PM   #17425
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Aside from being part of a specific sale, is there any way to tell how long the discount for a specific book will last?
Nope. Seems like 24-36 hours for most of them. I've lost out on far too many deals by sleeping on them, and sometimes it seems like by the time I get the eReaderIQ notification, the deal is already over.

Sometimes they go longer. No clue what the calculus is behind that.

Only trick I've found is that Kobo has a section for "deals that end tonight", which at least lets me know they're about to end:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/list/act-...6sh5zgjc2MFXHg

But that's about it, and I have no idea what all goes into that filter (i.e. if the book has to be a specific threshold of noteworthy for its sale to show up in the above).
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Old 12-05-2024, 06:12 PM   #17426
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Nope. Seems like 24-36 hours for most of them. I've lost out on far too many deals by sleeping on them, and sometimes it seems like by the time I get the eReaderIQ notification, the deal is already over.
Ugh yeah— I've lost out on more than one nice bargain because my survey payouts arrived just a few hours too late.
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Old 12-06-2024, 05:20 AM   #17427
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Ugh yeah— I've lost out on more than one nice bargain because my survey payouts arrived just a few hours too late.
That's like buying toilet paper and later realizing they forgot to perforate the entire roll. Talk about frustration!

What is wrong with Kobo? [Rhetorical question.]
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Old 12-06-2024, 05:09 PM   #17428
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In the end I just paid the 6 to renew as wanted 6 books in the 99p sale and got c1200 points as it was on 10 X points offer too
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Old 12-08-2024, 01:41 AM   #17429
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Kobo has another $50 +$10 giftcard promo now, started Dec 6. It's quite depressing how much of that $60 I've already got sitting on my wishlist
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Old 01-01-2025, 05:43 PM   #17430
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Just got notified: 50% VIP membership for one year. Use code 2025; offer good until 2025-01-05. I just used the code to regain VIP membership.

This is for Kobo Canada; don't know if it's valid anywhere else.
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