Bookworld Beating Any Amazon Book Price by 10%

Lrekabkram on 06/12/2012 - 10:54

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Bookworld Price Guarantee

Here at Bookworld we are so confident of being able to provide books to you at a competitive price that we have introduced a Bookworld Price Guarantee. If you find a book on Amazon cheaper than the Citizen price you have paid here at Bookworld, we will beat it by 10%!

Personally I think it's about time Australian book stores got competitive. If only they could have done it before ebooks took over.

The ISBN13 must match both stores and you also have to note amazons delivery charge.

A quick example is The Walking Dead Compendium V. 1.

http://www.bookworld.com.au/book/the-walking-dead-compendium… - Price $59.39

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1607060760 - Price $34.66 + $17.98 Shipping = $52.24

Since the 10% is off the amazon price it should then come to $47.016

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  • jv on 06/12/2012 - 10:55
    +1

    Price Guarantee

    This is a policy, not a bargain… belongs in the forums…

  • Crowmanz on 06/12/2012 - 11:18

    wow almost placed my order for The Walking Dead Compendium V. 1. with amazon this morning

  • sane on 06/12/2012 - 11:25
    +3

    That's got so many terms and exceptions that it's designed to avoid being competitive.

    1) It's only only a 'claim your money back' scheme, they aren't actually changing their prices. And the form to claim is not short or easy.

    2) It's one book plus the delivery, so in reality it's Amazon price+(50-100)%-10%. Most people buy more than one book at a time if they have to pay delivery. Or see point 5.

    3) Lots of terms about not matching discounts (so what do you think they would do with the large Amazon discounts, exclude them as 'promotions'?)

    4) The exchange rate used is dodgy ($1.61=£1 vs the current market of $1.54=£1)

    5) And what about Book Depository? eg Terry Pratchett "Dodger" hardback = $15.50 vs $20.80 from Amazon US and $23.39 from Bookworld)

    Nah, it's so wrapped up it's designed to look competitive, rather than BE competitive. If they want to actually be competitive it's simple. Run all the books through booko.com.au and make sure that every time Bookworld appears as a seller, it's at the top of the pile on their usual price.

  • Moderatorscotty on 06/12/2012 - 11:32

    Thanks for the information. However as both @jv and @ProspectiveDarkness stated, forum is probably a better place to post this.

    Moved to the forums.

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