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Old 04-28-2010, 05:36 PM   #226
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Well,

FW just added a couple of titles by Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilisation) which included a rebate, even with Micropay purchase, so I used up some more micropay and brought my balance down to $67. My theory, use up micropay dollars as soon as possible since B&N is out to destroy FW.
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Old 04-28-2010, 08:39 PM   #227
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Well,

FW just added a couple of titles by Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilisation) which included a rebate, even with Micropay purchase, so I used up some more micropay and brought my balance down to $67. My theory, use up micropay dollars as soon as possible since B&N is out to destroy FW.
Won't they have to refund unused Micropay if (when?) they shut the doors? It's practically impossible to use up the last bit of it, since you can't buy books on partial credit/partial Micropay.
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Old 04-28-2010, 08:59 PM   #228
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^ I can't see them refunding MP dollars, for the most part the are like 'bonus' dollars. hopefully you didn't pay cash for any.

I've got to figure out how to use my balance and use it quick. Things don't feel right here.
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I got mine down to .63 cents.
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Old 04-29-2010, 04:01 PM   #230
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I requested a refund for the unused portion of my BuyWise membership. I got this response less than 24 hours later:

As requested, we have returned the unused portion of your Buywise Membership...[remaining details removed]
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Old 04-29-2010, 05:31 PM   #231
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I requested a refund for the unused portion of my BuyWise membership. I got this response less than 24 hours later:

As requested, we have returned the unused portion of your Buywise Membership...[remaining details removed]
well... that was nice of them... now they are going to get a flood of requests for this.

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well... that was nice of them... now they are going to get a flood of requests for this.

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Yep, I made a similar request yesterday, and just received this response:

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Okay, I've asked our financial department to send the $104.95 (equal to 124.95 minus 20.00) back to your credit card.

Due to industry changes, our content suppliers are currently unable to offer certain titles from several large publishers. We are working with our content partners to resolve this.

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I hope the refund comes through as quickly as they removed my remaining $10 coupon codes and changed the expiration date!
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Old 04-29-2010, 08:39 PM   #233
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^ I can't see them refunding MP dollars, for the most part the are like 'bonus' dollars. hopefully you didn't pay cash for any.

I've got to figure out how to use my balance and use it quick. Things don't feel right here.
It does seem appallingly likely that they won't refund anything for Micropay balances, at least without being specifically asked (seems like they'd have to offer some such option for people who bought Micropay directly - and I doubt they'll bother to have a separate policy for them). Or maybe they could offer Ereader or B&N credit instead? At any rate, the situation does smell "off" enough to make me go buy a couple of trashy mysteries just now, so my micropay is down to $1.45.

P.S. And a couple of short stories brings it to $0.05. Has anyone managed to make it come out even?

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Old 04-29-2010, 10:49 PM   #234
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If you read on Fictionwise's MicroPay Help page at the very bottom it states:

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Sure! Send an email to support@fictionwise.com and tell us your login id and email address, and ask us for a refund. We'll get it out to you within 60 days.
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Old 04-30-2010, 09:14 AM   #235
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Great find and great post. I sent some karma your way. Might I suggest you start a new post with this headline??

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Old 04-30-2010, 06:55 PM   #236
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I decided today to try to run down my micropay rebates as I had a huge balance on it.

Two things I found out - there are very limited titles available now that the 5 majors have pulled their books (which sucks!) and they have started using technology which checks your location against your IP address, so even if you have a legit US address but you are accessing from a different country, it will come back with a message saying that your actual location and your address on the system do not match.

Between the geographic restrictions on books, the IP address checking and the limited titles, it was a push just to be able to use my micropay.

They certainly are not making it easy for someone to spend money with them, are they?

I'm sure FW must really be suffering from dropped sales.

Even the title selections for what's new and their 100% micropay rebates are terrible. It used to be that there was always at least 1 of the 4 100% micropay rebates books I would want to get right away and take advantage of the rebate but now there is nothing.

I'm just going to try to use up my micropay rebates as quickly as possible and then I'm not going back to FW again. It's just too bad as I have been a faithful customer for years.

It all started going downhill after the B&N purchase. Doesn't B&N realise that we are now living in a global economy? Don't they know that (1) the world is not the US only and (2) people from other parts of the world would like to buy from them too, if they only let them. What are they afraid of?
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I have worked by micropay rebates down to 13c. I don't think I could get it any lower than that.

Good bye, Fictionwise.

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Old 05-01-2010, 09:35 AM   #238
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Good find. Though I wonder if they distinguish between micropay dollars that were bought for cash vs. ones that were 'bonused', as that whole micropay account faq talks about funding your micropay account will real dollars - doesn't talk at all about the dollars you get when buying books..
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Yep, I made a similar request yesterday, and just received this response:

Karen,

Okay, I've asked our financial department to send the $104.95 (equal to 124.95 minus 20.00) back to your credit card.

Due to industry changes, our content suppliers are currently unable to offer certain titles from several large publishers. We are working with our content partners to resolve this.

Best Regards,

Simon
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I hope the refund comes through as quickly as they removed my remaining $10 coupon codes and changed the expiration date!
Well, I made the request on the 28th, received the response on the 29th, and the credit showed on my card on the 30th. I'm certainly not complaining, but I am a little surprised that they're in that much of a hurry to give the money back!
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