Thought I'd drop the group a quick observation regarding Amazon.
I'm always on the eye out for O'Reilly books and keep an eye on Amazon pricing (both new and used) for the books in my want-list.
A strange thing just happened I haven't noticed before. In the last .5 to 1.5 weeks Amazon.ca jacked up the "new, sold by Amazon" prices on nearly all the O'Reilly titles I am watching (some recent titles, some ancient) about 20%! In that time the CA$ went down by at most 2%.
My guess is it's one of three things:
1. Jacking prices up for Christmas because they can get away with it. 2. Jacking prices up before Black Friday/Monday(whatever) so they can claim their new prices are "sales" when in fact they are the prices from 2 weeks ago! 3. They held back the CA$ pressure as long as they could then finally broke and jacked them up 20% in one go.
#3 seems unlikely because their prices fluctuate nearly every day, probably on the exchange rate.
Indigo prices seem to have followed Amazon, so it looks like this is a common book store tactic.
If you don't need a book for a present, might want to wait until January to buy as prices should drop by 20% again. Even more if the CA$ ever recovers.
Also, buy the ebooks from O'Reilly directly, instead of Amazon/Kobo. That way you get them without DRM.
On 2015-11-19 3:37 PM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
Thought I'd drop the group a quick observation regarding Amazon.
I'm always on the eye out for O'Reilly books and keep an eye on Amazon pricing (both new and used) for the books in my want-list.
A strange thing just happened I haven't noticed before. In the last .5 to 1.5 weeks Amazon.ca jacked up the "new, sold by Amazon" prices on nearly all the O'Reilly titles I am watching (some recent titles, some ancient) about 20%! In that time the CA$ went down by at most 2%.
My guess is it's one of three things:
- Jacking prices up for Christmas because they can get away with it.
- Jacking prices up before Black Friday/Monday(whatever) so they can
claim their new prices are "sales" when in fact they are the prices from 2 weeks ago! 3. They held back the CA$ pressure as long as they could then finally broke and jacked them up 20% in one go.
#3 seems unlikely because their prices fluctuate nearly every day, probably on the exchange rate.
Indigo prices seem to have followed Amazon, so it looks like this is a common book store tactic.
If you don't need a book for a present, might want to wait until January to buy as prices should drop by 20% again. Even more if the CA$ ever recovers. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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