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Get Free Shipping on Purchase of Books Worth £100 and above: Printsasia.co.uk-Online Bookshop

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Printsasia.co.uk-Online bookshop offering free shipping on purchase of books worth £100 and above.Very limited time offer.

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  • +2

    Perhaps you should offer free shipping regardless of the amount spent considering book depository does and they are generally very cheap.

    • The problem, as I understand it, is that Book Depository build in 'shipping' to their prices based on where you are (internet-wise) when you're looking at prices. That is why I always compare all-up costs before pushing the button on any purchase. I tend to use www.booko.com.au as my first port of call - I don't think that I've seen www.printsasia.co.uk listed as one of the options on that site though…

      • +1

        I've started to notice that TBD's prices aren't as competitive as they previously were after being bought by Amazon.

  • ^ Agreed. Edit: I did a couple of searches on some books of interest to me .. with shipping the prices are either slightly cheaper or slightly more expensive. Depends on the book I guess. Shipping under $100 looks like 2.75, so not too bad.

    • Really?

      I'm from England and the first time I came here one of the things that hit me is the inflated cost of books.

      (this only applies to a big reader, but…) don't look at the individual book prices - look at what how many you could get for £100.

      From experience, most middle-of-the-road books by reasonably known authors come to between £5-£10, where they'd cost ya about $30-$40ish in-store here (at least in SA - perhaps other states are different).

      So you could get between 10-20 books for £100 on average (let's call it an optimistic $170 with the exchange rate) instead of 10-20 for about $300-$600 (assuming all books averaged out to the lower end of my estimation at $30 - if they were $40, then they'd come to $400-800).

      That's a pretty substantial saving - don't knock it!

      Edit: before all the idiots start on me with "Well go back home if you don't like it here blah blah blah, I love Australia - I chose to live here and liked it of my own accord as opposed to was born here and was somewhat forced to like it, I just think this is an awesome deal and that they are really overpriced in-store).

      • Apples and Oranges.
        Don't compare with physical store. Almost everyone here knows that unless there's a magical sale going on, there's always a cheaper alternative online.

        FYI, He was comparing with http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
        And according to him, the prices are not too far off than what's on offer at printasia.

        • "unless there's a magical sale going on, there's always a cheaper alternative online."

          …but not from Australian retailers…online included. The two websites which you see as similar are both British…

          Personally, I think this is a comparatively good deal.

        • Yes, they're not Australian retailers, they're both British.

          So?

          Where in the world it is written that you have to buy from an Australian retailer to get a bargain in Australia?
          Heck, sometimes I get my books from amazon US.

          If you think this is a good deal, then good for you.

          All I'm saying is, if you want to compare, compare to what's available from Australia and that includes online stores that are based overseas.

      • Big W sell their fairly good size (at least at my local store in WA) adult fiction catalogue at 35% off RRP. I got a Cussler novel for the train home for $12.99 instead of $19.99. Pretty good deal for a brick and mortar if you ask me.

  • That is not a bargain.. I can get free shipping from book depository.co.uk… and that too at lower prices.

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