"Heirloom Knitting" @ Amazon

Amazon claims to have Sharon Miller's "Heirloom Knitting" for $36 with free shipping if you choose "slow boat via Australia and points south" shipping option.

I just ordered, we'll see if it shows up or if they string me along for three months before admitting they don't have it at that price.

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Wooly
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Today's status email from Amazon shows scheduled shipping during the first week of June. I'd better check to see if they've already billed my card :P

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:38:07 GMT, Wooly spewed forth :

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Wooly

Good luck, Wooly ;-) Aud

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Aud

To bad that you have had such bad luck with Amazon.com. I have ordered here in Canada from Amazon.ca and have had great service. Even when I order books as gift that go to other addresses. Great discounts as well.

Most of the time though, I will buy from our little local bookstore. It is indeed a bit more money, but on the other hand, I get great service, and lots of help and a friendly chat. Nice to have choices

Els

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Els van Dam

All the books I ordered from Amazon.com arrived as scheduled or even=20 some days in advance. This with all of their shipping options. Also books I ordered as gifts to other addresses in other countries=20 arrived as promised. I don=B4t have any complaint to make on amazon.com (yes, I have one, they= =20 don=B4t almost carry Italian books LOL).

Hugs,

Anna Maria

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Anna MCM

I have also had very good luck with Amazon, both the American site and the British site. Sometimes books arrive in less than a week. Unfortunately, the British site never has free shipping outside of Italy.

If you want Italian books, I have also had very good luck with Internet Book Shop, an Italian site. The URL is

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B Vaugha

I never buyed from the British site, since the American one is a bit=20 cheaper for my choice of books. I have a friend here who buys from the=20 Bristish one and she=B4s happy with that as well.

Thanks! I=B4ll try it!

Hugs,

Anna Maria

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Anna MCM

The only time I've ever had an order rescinded by Amazon it was an Amazon Marketplace order (used book) and the vendor emailed me to say they didn't have the book anymore. I've never had an issue with them charging my card for something that wasn't actually shipped.

Dawn

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Dawn Alguard

Everybody seems to think I'm complaining, which I'm not. I *am* skeptical for a couple of reasons.

  1. The price. This book retails for -53 everywhere I've found it. Ordering from UK doesn't produce any savings because shipping a book this size is a bit pricy.

  1. The website initially told me the book is in stock for immediate shipment regardless of shipping method but the follow-up "status report" states they can't ship until the first week of June.

1 combined with 2 makes me think they won't be able to sell me the $36 book and will instead attempt to upsell me in June to the full retail price. Or, perhaps they're hoping that by delaying shipment I'll spring for overpriced "urgent" shipping on my dime.

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:38:07 GMT, Wooly spewed forth :

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Wooly

I meant outside of the UK, of course!

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B Vaugha

I'm afraid to buy anything from non-European sites, because many packages end up having customs, plus VAT, plus a flat "customs handling fee" attached, and it can often be more than the value of the merchandise. Doesn't that ever happen in Sweden?

My daughter was doing research in Ghana all last year. She came to Italy for Christmas, and did a good deal of Christmas shopping on the internet, having all the gifts sent to Italy. About half of them had this misfortune. The VAT for some of them was 50%; for the smaller gifts, the customs handling fee exceeded the value.

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B Vaugha

AFAIK, books are free from custom taxes because of an International=20 convention (correct me please if I=B4m wrong). As for other things, yes, they should come with customs. I only buyed a=20 DVD from Amazon.com and it came without anything from Customs attached.=20 I didn=B4t indagate further ;-)

Hugs,

Anna Maria

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Anna MCM

I had a look on amazon.com and I saw that the discount on retail price=20 is 37%. It=B4s possible that they are selling some items with no gain. The bookseller gain in Italy is about 20%, I don=B4t know about USA. Sometimes booksellers have to sell without any gain in order to keep=20 their clients, the market is very tuff (I worked as a bookseller many=20 years ago in Pisa, Italy). It=B4s also possible that they choose this book because they saw that=20 there are many queries on this title and so they decided to keep the=20 price low. Sorry for my English today, it=B4s even worse than usual, but I have a=20 terrible headache.

Hugs,

Anna Maria

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Anna MCM

Well, don't do that. The ship date has nothing to do with the shipping method. The ship date is when they'll put it in the mail. When I look at the item, I see "usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks" before I've even put it in my shopping cart. I expect that the low price has attracted a lot of orders and by the time you finalized your puchase they'd run out of copies on hand. If they can't get new stock they might cancel your order but I'd be very, very surprised if they tried to up the price on you.

Dawn

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Dawn Alguard

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