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06-28-2010, 04:40 PM | #18 |
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Folks,
Though PocketBook-USA does not support this refund thing at this moment, we thought it would be proper to make some kind of nice gesture to those who purchased PBs one month prior to the price-cut. We don't know yet what we're going to do, but it will be something non-monetary and interesting. And since we're very open company, I'd ask you, folks, what YOU think would be the best to make you feel good about PB (money excluding): - a gift certificate for 2-3 free books from our online book store that will be put up soon. Well, not VERY soon, but, hopefully, by this September...; - some accessories like SD cards, leather covers, etc; - free dictionaries...; - your own ideas? |
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The dictionary pack that's coming is extra cost for existing customers, right?
That would roughly balance the books. (Or give'em a coupon/code good for any of the three.) |
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A store credit of some sort for the price difference would be lovely. I'd be willing to wait for the online book store. Thanks for hearing our voices
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06-29-2010, 12:56 AM | #24 |
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No, it only means that our manufacturer has dropped his prices, but that this drop isn't even nearly enough to catch the rise caused by the high dollar (or low euro, depending on the perspective). We keep the old prices only by our distributors accepting a smaller profit margin (thanks guys) and by us doing the same.
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06-29-2010, 02:08 PM | #25 |
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Still costing about 300$ in Europe [the PB 360], of course. With no falling prices in sight.
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I think big difference here is that for Amazon main business is selling books. It does not really matter to them whether they make any profit from Kindle since every sold Kindle will boost their book sales.
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It doesn't make sense to compare to straight USA prices since you can not get it for that price. (Unless you travel to USA for some other reason in which case you obviously should buy all electronics there.) Last edited by Kameli; 06-30-2010 at 10:53 AM. |
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Well, there's the issue of sales tax, I grant you that, but it varies from country to country (or state to state in the US, I understand). It still does not even begin to account for the differences in sales price. Local (!) shipping costs also apply in most cases, I don't know how you can seriously add costs of shipping to Europe (!) to your figure.
Make no mistake: if shipping from the US + taxes would result in a substantially lower price I'd certainly buy there. With the recent price cuts for the American market we're pretty much there. All that aside what I'm seeing is that list prices are slashed by 15% in the US with no similar mobility in the European market. Put bluntly, it pisses me off ever so slightly and makes me look even harder at alternative options. |
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There seems to be 3 problems atm: 1: Price in Europe is high 2. There is lot of different badly working PB:s reported on forum. 3. We are still waiting for stable new firmware. With these problems PB is currently not very attractive choice. Meanwhile I am satisfied of one I got but I would not recommend buying one until I see price cut, new stable firmware and some of the broken ones fixed with warranty. |
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2.True. We do replace broken PBs whenever they show up except when the screen is broken. In this case we repair for no profit. 3. True. Our new firmware is being worked on. We check the quality very thoroughly to make sure that there's no other disaster. |
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