Sony PRS-600 Listed At $100 [Selling Error Now Corrected]

[advocate2]

Here's the latest:

Unfortunately, one or more of the items that you ordered has been cancelled either at your request or because the item(s) are not available.

Your credit card has not been charged. If you paid with a gift card, the funds have already been decremented from the gift card; therefore we will mail a new gift card number which will take up to 10 business days to receive in the mail. Borders Bucks redeemed at the time of your order have been added back to your Borders Rewards account.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,


The Borders.com Team

[iandix]

For people outside the US we are getting e-gift cards (a 16 digit number) to use on their web site...

I just ordered the touch again using the e-gift card they just sent me. SO I'm paying (with $8.95 shipping to Australia) $183.97. I'm rather happy with that price, a lot cheaper than what they are selling in OZ at the moment

The funny thing is, it's still on Back Order :-)

[Latinandgreek]

I just received a $25 e-voucher as well. It will have to go towards a birthday present for my husband - I was really hoping that the reader would go through, it would have made a great birthday gift.

[Bilbo1967]

E-mail received as above - with a $25 e-voucher. Oh well, worth a try and effectively got $25 for nothing.

[ardeegee]

Anyone know if the gift cards will work with the used books in "Borders Marketplace"?

[iandix]

My GOD!!!!! I just checked the price of the Sony Touch at Borders here in Australia .. none in stock, at this price I can see why
http://www.borders.com.au/book/sony-...ilver/7341335/

they are also selling the Kobo reader now
http://www.borders.com.au/ereader

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The following is from Borders website...



I'm considering calling Borders on this if my order has gone from "in processing" to canceled. Canceling the order is changing it in some way.

File a class-action lawsuit.


Don

[Spiffy]

Originally Posted by advocate2

Here's the latest:

Unfortunately, one or more of the items that you ordered has been cancelled either at your request or because the item(s) are not available.

Your credit card has not been charged. If you paid with a gift card, the funds have already been decremented from the gift card; therefore we will mail a new gift card number which will take up to 10 business days to receive in the mail. Borders Bucks redeemed at the time of your order have been added back to your Borders Rewards account.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,


The Borders.com Team

Yes, its interesting that we got a second round of cancellation notices. My guess is that the first ones were human written, and the second round was done by something automatic (thus its claim that "one or more of the items that you ordered has been cancelled either at your request or because the item(s) are not available"--since neither of those things are actually true).

No e-voucher received as of a few seconds ago (I assume it would come via email). I wonder if its because I'm getting a physical card (I'm in the US though), if I'm later on a list, or if they're welching. I'll find out eventually, I guess.

[websjapan]

i've just got my e-gift voucher number. as i'm not in the usa it's a bit useless so am happy to off load it for $15 (paypal). pm if you're interested.

[m-reader]

Originally Posted by iandix

My GOD!!!!! I just checked the price of the Sony Touch at Borders here in Australia .. none in stock, at this price I can see why
http://www.borders.com.au/book/sony-...ilver/7341335/

This is a mistake, I think. Otherwise, they're living on a different planet

[abookreader]

I received my gift card in the mail today

it says
"Borders gift cards do not expire and are redeemable for retail merchandise only at U.S. Borders, Waldenbooks, and Brentano's stores, and for new book, music, DVD and video retail merchandise at www.borders.com."

It's unclear to me whether or not it will be valid for eBooks but I'm saving it to try.

[Shopaholic]

Originally Posted by abookreader

I received my gift card in the mail today

it says
"Borders gift cards do not expire and are redeemable for retail merchandise only at U.S. Borders, Waldenbooks, and Brentano's stores, and for new book, music, DVD and video retail merchandise at www.borders.com."

It's unclear to me whether or not it will be valid for eBooks but I'm saving it to try.

No you cannot use it to buy ebooks directly but you can use it to buy a Sony Reader gift card in the store which you can then buy ebooks with.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by Shopaholic

No you cannot use it to buy ebooks directly but you can use it to buy a Sony Reader gift card in the store which you can then buy ebooks with.

I think abookreader is referring to the new Borders ebook store opening next month.

[Ajax]

Got my gift card in the mail today as well.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by Maggie Leung

Seems that having your books accessible on other devices helps sell hardware. A good number of Amazon Kindle forum posters start reading on iPhones and iPod Touches, then buy a Kindle. Maybe Sony doesn't care about such sales in the scheme of things.

I think you are right about that. I have an iPhone & an iPad. What has become clear to me is that I need (okay, want) something larger than the one & smaller than the other for my mobile reading. The Sony 300 or 505 would be my choice (even if I didn't already have them) but because I can't purchase a single book and read it on all three, I'm being driven to get a Kindle2.

The only thing I can figure is that from a worldwide perspective, Sony views the Mac market as small potatoes.