Amazon Orders

[Vocenoctum]

Re: Wal-Mart Rulz! Amazon Droolz!

Everyone who bought from Amazon got cheated, IMO, on both price and delivery time.

Wal-Mart.com sold me the 3.5 books for 41% off cover, that's just $17.62 per book, and I'm getting mine Tuesday the 15th!

I'm paying 40% off cover from Amazon. Is Walmart also free shipping?

 

[Iron_Chef]

Re: Re: Wal-Mart Rulz! Amazon Droolz!

I'm paying 40% off cover from Amazon. Is Walmart also free shipping?

Amazon's site says the 3.5 books are only 30% off cover price so I don't know where you pulled that 40% off figure from. They include free "super saver" shipping, so you are correct in that regard. Wal-mart does not give free shipping; standard Wal-Mart shipping for the 3.5 books was $4.04, IIRC. Still a savings over Amazon, even with free shipping.

 

[Vocenoctum]

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Amazon's site says the 3.5 books are only 30% off cover price so I don't know where you pulled that 40% off figure from. They include free "super saver" shipping, so you are correct in that regard. Wal-mart does not give free shipping; standard Wal-Mart shipping for the 3.5 books was $4.04, IIRC. Still a savings over Amazon, even with free shipping.

When you check out, you can send a deal to others through email. They get another 10% off. Someone posted here a while back that when he ordered he'd put in other people's emails. So I sent him my email addy. So I get 40% off total.

 

[Iron_Chef]

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When you check out, you can send a deal to others through email. They get another 10% off. Someone posted here a while back that when he ordered he'd put in other people's emails. So I sent him my email addy. So I get 40% off total.

Okay, but that's not the deal you get if you just order them straight off the site without some special unadvertised offer.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Note: if it's like mine, they gave you an upgrade to 2nd day, but now are charging you for regular shipping. ($6 or thereabouts) as opposed to free shipping.

Nope. Mine's still a little over $50. (I got in on the "Share the Love" thing, giving me an additional 10% off.)

 

[Heretic Apostate]

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Okay, but that's not the deal you get if you just order them straight off the site without some special unadvertised offer.

Only unadvertised if you've never bought anything from Amazon.

Of course, most people consider it annoying, me included. Except this once, of course.

 

[Vocenoctum]

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Okay, but that's not the deal you get if you just order them straight off the site without some special unadvertised offer.

Never claimed otherwise
I mentioned what I paid, you said "I don't know where you got that price from" so I explained.
Life goes on.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

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Life goes on.

LIES!! It doesn't!! We're all going to die!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[haiiro]

Mine has an arrival date of april 2004.

A friend and I preordered from Amazon on July 9th, and received this same arrival date. Now their site lists the books as available within 2-3 days. At one point in the order process, the page quoted July 19-21 as the arrival date; at other points, it showed the April 2004 date. Very odd.

This was too dodgy for us, so we cancelled our orders and switched to Walmart. I should know tomorrow if the order is en route, but thus far it looks a lot more likely than Amazon. That's a bit disappointing, since I've always had good experiences ordering from Amazon. Ah well.

Whenever it gets here, that will be a very exciting package.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

I ordered two sets of books for a friend and me today, and the shipping date is 7/16 and the delivery date is 7/18.