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Old 12-26-2013, 02:26 AM   #106
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ROFL... As an IT person, I completely understand. I looked at Diesel's checkout as well and I agree with the assessment... Somebody's gift card is getting eaten away. I also didn't actually go through with a purchase, though.
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Thanks for the note and I appreciate the heads up on this matter. The gift certificate was for a specific user and it is no longer active.

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Old 12-26-2013, 04:42 AM   #108
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"A Game of Thrones", the first book in George R. R. Martin's "A song of Ice and Fire" series is available at Amazon UK for 99p today.
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Since it's an attempt to establish whether some of the bargains in the thread were legitimate, I think the discussion is relevant to the topic.
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Old 12-26-2013, 07:20 AM   #111
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Stephen King's The Shining and Doctor Sleep are $1.99 each at Amazon. The latter is also on sale at B&N.

In what looks like an annual event, two of Kim Harrison's "Hollows" books (For a Few Demons More and White Witch, Black Curse - books 5 and 7) are $1.99 across the board; I remember getting book 4 on sale last December. Amazon, B&N, and Kobo all show the reduction, which makes me think it's a publisher promotion.
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Dang, I recently paid full price for both those.
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I[…]I reckon that any reduction from entering a voucher code is fair, providing that one's not deliberating coding something to break a badly written parser and inject new code!
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The technical explanation: It looks like they are using a SQL LIKE to check the coupon, rather than an =. In conjunction with the % in the coupon (% is a wildcard), this is bringing up all of the coupons that start with 20 (using '20%' as the example), which means that coupon 200000000000123, 200000000000124, 200000000000125 are being brought up. Then they select which ever one of these is at the top. It looks like the list of coupons that match is not being sorted, so which coupon is at the top and selected is almost random.
Oh. So it was very nearly a badly written parser and injecting new code. I can only plead that it wasn't deliberate. How embarrassing, for me and for Diesel.

Back on topic:

Kobo Uk have two anthologies with new Sookie Stackhouse short stories in them for £1.30 each today.

I would have bought them, but I keep getting error messages back after returning from Paypal.
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Old 12-26-2013, 08:56 AM   #114
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Speaking of US/UK and ebooks... Do any of you know if I could purchase an egift card from nook.com (say $10) and send it to a "friend" in the UK to purchase ebooks from nook.co.uk? There are some scifi ebooks my "friend" wants that the NookUK store has that KoboUK is missing.
Best ask B&N help - the Nook UK store doesn't seem to offer gift cards so it may not accept them either, especially since they will be in US dollars.

In the parallel Amazon case I suggested buying a UK gift card in pounds with a US plastic card.

You might look to see if other UK ebook stores have the book and have gift cards that you can purchase. Luzme.com will help.
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Old 12-26-2013, 12:13 PM   #115
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Raymond Feist posted on his FB wall - his last 5 books (2 Demonwar and 3 Chaoswar) are on sale for $1.99 @ Amazon.com.

Grabbed 'em...still haven't read Magician's End. Will have to wait until later tonight to convert for my Nook though. I always like to re-read a whole series each time a new book comes out but given the size of the Riftwar books I'll be OK with the last 5. I read a good hunk of it again last year anyway.
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Book view cafe has 50% off sale on a whole bunch of their books, since a number of their authors write fantasy and scifi this may be of interest to some. Files are DRM free and your choice of mobi or epub.
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Book view cafe has 50% off sale on a whole bunch of their books, since a number of their authors write fantasy and scifi this may be of interest to some. Files are DRM free and your choice of mobi or epub.
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BVC’s Half-Price eBook Sale
All titles on this page 1/2 price from Dec 26 through Jan 6. Discount applied at checkout.

Being lazy I want to know which books *by author* are in the sale but the listing is by title.
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Best ask B&N help - the Nook UK store doesn't seem to offer gift cards so it may not accept them either, especially since they will be in US dollars.

In the parallel Amazon case I suggested buying a UK gift card in pounds with a US plastic card.

You might look to see if other UK ebook stores have the book and have gift cards that you can purchase. Luzme.com will help.
The Nook UK store says the same thing as the US store when you purchase a book: that any gift cards in your account will be applied first, then any remaining balance will be taken from the credit card on file.
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Amazon UK has six books by Neil Gaiman on special offer today:

Stardust, Neverwhere, American Gods, Anansi Boys and Smoke and Mirrors are all £1.49
If anyone missed these five during the Amazon daily deal, Kobo UK now have them at the £1.49 price.
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Here's what's happening at Diesel: Basically incompetent software developers.

The coupon entry value is not being filtered before being passed to the database. And, the check in the database for the coupon is not correct.

The technical explanation: It looks like they are using a SQL LIKE to check the coupon, rather than an =. In conjunction with the % in the coupon (% is a wildcard), this is bringing up all of the coupons that start with 20 (using '20%' as the example), which means that coupon 200000000000123, 200000000000124, 200000000000125 are being brought up. Then they select which ever one of these is at the top. It looks like the list of coupons that match is not being sorted, so which coupon is at the top and selected is almost random.
I've given up trying to talk to them. Their deal of the day broke months ago: it still displays nearly daily, but links to random search pages instead of a book and the book displayed on the front page as the daily deal apparently is never sold by them, as any search for it will find nothing. All they say is that things break, people are working on it...

It's their front page!

I mean, take the daily deal widget off the page if they don't have those books available (or pick books they do have for sale).
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