Kobo Discounts: Coupon Codes + Discussion

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Sorry for asking this question. I know it has been discussed in this thread a lot, but it is a loooong thread, so I'll ask it anyway:

How do I travel to a more discount-friendly country in the Kobo store?

Under Account Settings, Payment Information, first clear your current payment info then just click the drop down and choose your new country. Save and then re-enter CC info. Some countries require a matching postcode (it will tell you), but for the rest you don't even need to change your address.

BTW, if you choose UK, there are 2 German publishers discountable there: Goldmann and btb Verlag.

[doubleshuffle]

Thanks. Managed it. That last bit about German publishers is interesting. I didn't know any were discountable at all.

[mitford13]

I think it's a combination of things - in Germany they can't discount because of the Buchpreisbindung, and in the UK they can but it's dependent on contracts with the distributors/Agency Pricing. There may be a couple more eligible than the two I mentioned it's just been a while since I did any searching and I don't remember. Always worth a shot to check.

Originally Posted by jeather

Out of nowhere, I just got a 90% off coupon from Kobo. Used it immediately (multitabbing doesn't work, I need to multibrowser it)...

This gave me a great belly laugh. Kobo gives a generous gift and the first thing someone thinks is how to abuse that kindness.

[Witty Username]

I just bought some of my wishlist with the SALE50 code. A book that costs £6.65 had £3.03 deducted.
Now I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I'm sure that is not 50% off the price. It's not even rounding up/down to the nearest penny.

[Chapter One]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Under Account Settings, Payment Information, first clear your current payment info then just click the drop down and choose your new country. Save and then re-enter CC info. Some countries require a matching postcode (it will tell you), but for the rest you don't even need to change your address.

I'd like to just add a note to this, as it might be helpful to some.
When I first tried changing my country, it wouldnt work and it took me ages to work out why.
After clearing any saved payment info and then changing the country and postcode, if needed, I would then click Save, and assume the new details had been saved.
However I eventually worked out that after clicking Save I needed to stay on the page until the words "Your Changes Have Been Saved Successfully" appeared in green up near the top of the page. Sometimes it can take 15-20 seconds for those words to appear. If I navigate away from the page before they appear, the changes dont get saved and so my country remains unchanged.
I dont know if others experience this lag before the changes are saved, but thought I'd mention just in case.
Also, sometimes, even after I've had the green message, I still need to refresh the Kobo home page a couple of times for the new country to kick in.

[samosa]

Originally Posted by Witty Username

I just bought some of my wishlist with the SALE50 code. A book that costs £6.65 had £3.03 deducted.
Now I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I'm sure that is not 50% off the price. It's not even rounding up/down to the nearest penny.

May be it's the VAT? The calculation looks rather complicated:
http://www.ebookpartnership.com/vat-ebooks-2015-means/

[Pierre Menard]

re traveling, something else people need to consider is foreign transaction fees on their payments, right? And afaik getting a gift card for payment still isn't an option in the US.

This is why I don't do the traveling, even though there's some books I'd really like to get that aren't available in the US. It just seems too complicated, with too many little things to remember / discover too late you didn't know about. They may all be covered in this thread somewhere, but the info is scattered across several hundred pages.

[carnival007]

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[cromag]

Originally Posted by Witty Username

I just bought some of my wishlist with the SALE50 code. A book that costs £6.65 had £3.03 deducted.
Now I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I'm sure that is not 50% off the price. It's not even rounding up/down to the nearest penny.

Originally Posted by samosa

May be it's the VAT? The calculation looks rather complicated:
http://www.ebookpartnership.com/vat-ebooks-2015-means/

Sounds likely. Here in the States, my state's sales tax gets added in, so the final cost is more than just half the ebooks' cost.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Pierre Menard

re traveling, something else people need to consider is foreign transaction fees on their payments, right?

If your card has them, of course. Not mine.

[murg]

Originally Posted by cromag

Sounds likely. Here in the States, my state's sales tax gets added in, so the final cost is more than just half the ebooks' cost.

Move to Delaware (at least in your Kobo address). No sales tax in Delaware.

[Number9]

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[samosa]

Originally Posted by Pierre Menard

re traveling, something else people need to consider is foreign transaction fees on their payments, right? And afaik getting a gift card for payment still isn't an option in the US.

This is why I don't do the traveling, even though there's some books I'd really like to get that aren't available in the US. It just seems too complicated, with too many little things to remember / discover too late you didn't know about. They may all be covered in this thread somewhere, but the info is scattered across several hundred pages.

I'd been getting the gift cards from Australia and Canada. This way some of the fees are avoided - some cards charge a per transaction fee - this way I got charged only one transaction for as many books as CAD$100 can buy...

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