Kobo Discounts: Coupon Codes + Discussion

[samhy]

Originally Posted by PeterShow

UK and France = Code does not work
India = only credit card

Honkong has funny prices: $77.69

Well it worked for the 18 books I've bought from France (I never travel for electronic things).
I hope you'll find a way to make it work

[library addict]

Sadly Kobo has decided my credit card is unwanted No holds or anything per my bank. Kobo has done this in the past.

The new checkout screen has nowhere to put my Indigo card. And I have mostly depleted my Paypal balance. At least it let me buy that way, even if I never got the confirmation screen the books are in my library

[spersephone]

All the ones I'm lusting after aren't couponable, unless I go for a trip, which I don't want to. Oh well.

[Chapter One]

Originally Posted by library addict

Sadly Kobo has decided my credit card is unwanted No holds or anything per my bank. Kobo has done this in the past.

Can I ask what happens when you try to use your card?
I can no longer use my main Kobo account as every time I try to pay for a book I get a blue page saying there was an internal server error. Its been doing it for a few weeks now.
I can use the same card with no problems on a different account though.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

I haven't been getting receipts for my purchases but I'm not worried because this has happened before and they'll eventually turn up.

The sales have gone through as normal as far as I can tell. As you'll recall this happened last October or thereabouts as well when the new checkout first came into use.

Originally Posted by septentrion

I tested the code in the French store and it worked.

Edit : and it's multi use!

Edit edit: when does that code stops working?

Originally Posted by Lady Stardust

I have no idea - it just says

Enjoy till it lasts

What happened the last time that we didn't get Receipts, and there was a fire sale on, was that when Kobo sorted the Receipts problem, and they started to roll out to everyone, the codes stopped working.

It appears that there is a direct link to the Receipts working and the codes validating.

[FizzyWater]

Well, bought my first book that - when it hit the library - said it was just available as PDF. I don't know if Kobo is worth it, even with all the coupon codes.

[Josieb1]

Hubby and I are using the code tonight in the UK store, so far we've bought 20 books. No recipts yet but I am downloading each book as we purchase.

I am hoping the worst that happens is that when Kobo realise whats happening and have a fit they don't honour the purchases and remove the books from my library.

They can't make us pay full price can they?

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Well, bought my first book that - when it hit the library - said it was just available as PDF. I don't know if Kobo is worth it, even with all the coupon codes.

Thats happened to me tonight twice. It's never happened before, but not all books are like that. If you look at 'Available on these Devices' if its empty then its probably a PDF, at least that seems to be the case for my two.

[stoicho]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

Hubby and I are using the code tonight in the UK store, so far we've bought 20 books. No recipts yet but I am downloading each book as we purchase.

I am hoping the worst that happens is that when Kobo realise whats happening and have a fit they don't honour the purchases and remove the books from my library.

They can't make us pay full price can they?

My paypal payment is shown as pending (HKD) but the books showed up just fine to download in my library.

Anyone remember what happened last time?

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Chapter One

Can I ask what happens when you try to use your card?
I can no longer use my main Kobo account as every time I try to pay for a book I get a blue page saying there was an internal server error. Its been doing it for a few weeks now.
I can use the same card with no problems on a different account though.

I get a message in red saying something went wrong (sorry can't remember the exact wording). In the past it used to happen if I purchased 10 books without fail. My credit card worked fine yesterday with the 65% coupons.

Usually if I wait 24-48 hours it goes back to working.

I will have to re-add it and at the moment it won't let me. I deleted my card info to see if that would allow the Indigo card option to appear, but no luck. The option does appear on the old checkout, but the big coupon doesn't work with old checkout.

I think you should probably contact Kobo customer service if you have been having the issue for so long. I just did a chat (about a poorly formatted book) so they are there now.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

Hubby and I are using the code tonight in the UK store, so far we've bought 20 books. No recipts yet but I am downloading each book as we purchase.

I am hoping the worst that happens is that when Kobo realise whats happening and have a fit they don't honour the purchases and remove the books from my library.

They can't make us pay full price can they?

I don't think so. All of my books from the magic coupon code last year are still in my library and they never charged anything extra.

[zelda.owns.link]

I spent around $70 and bought 86 books. Only stopping to go get another Kobo gift card for my account.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

Hubby and I are using the code tonight in the UK store, so far we've bought 20 books. No recipts yet but I am downloading each book as we purchase.

I have received a Paypal receipt for every book I've purchased; and yes, I've downloaded each book after purchase.

I am hoping the worst that happens is that when Kobo realise whats happening and have a fit they don't honour the purchases and remove the books from my library.

They can't make us pay full price can they?

How would they "make" you pay full price? If a message or e-mail shows up that I owe them X amount of money because of over-using a promo code, I'll tell them to take a hike. What would they do? Just take the money from my bank account? Not possible. Send someone to shoot me? Nah.

They could refund the amount spent, and take the books from the library. I think the very worst that could happen is that they consider the purchases a misuse of their service, and they'll delete all the books and the account without giving a refund.

In my point of view, you can't release 90% multi-use coupons into the wild and then bitch about people using it a lot.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by stoicho

My paypal payment is shown as pending (HKD) but the books showed up just fine to download in my library.

Anyone remember what happened last time?

Nothing happened. There was a multi-use ultra-coupon of 85% or thereabout just before Christmas, and a contest that spit out 70-80% coupons like breadcrumbs.

All of the books I bought are still in my library. Never heard anything, never got to pay anything extra.

Paypal sends me these receipts:

"You have placed an order for $0.70 at Kobo."

If I have 10 of those, I assume Paypal will pay Kobo 10x $0.70, and at the end of the month, will charge $7 on my creditcard. (Which is in my Paypal account, not my Kobo account.)

That is what happened last time. If anything else would happen, I would find that exceedingly weird, and would cause me to mistrust Kobo and Paypal forever.

[Josieb1]

Thanks for the reassurance. I haven't had any receipts yet but still not worried. I've been able to download all my books