second box of books

[thespian.livejournal.com]

1: if you haven't paid for your pre-ordered Harry Potter book, please do so soon. And then remember to tell me. We'll take paypal, but you need to bring my attention to the payment. Just tell me the address that your payment is from so I can sort it out from the rest.

2: I know I missed someone saying to me the other day that they were interested in being on the second list of books, if we get another 10 of them. But for the life of me, though I remember the context and words, I've forgotten the person. Please remind me if you see this.

The current list of book orders is here:

http://community.livejournal.com/baitcon/29703.html

the first 10 people will be getting books. The second list will be getting books *if* we reach 10 orders. We need 6 more to do that. There will not be books to be bought there; they must be preordered, because I'm a really lame dealer's room. On the off chance we hit 20, I will then wait list people in case others don't pay beforehand ('cause I'm not carrying $700 around on the trip). The store can only spare 20 books from their own first weekend sales.

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Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Silverbackbutch was the "et al" in my original request. She and her wife want a copy to share. If you don't hear from them since they are moving right now and might not have internet between now and Baitcon, I will pre-pay it for them.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

ignore previous response. woke up 7 minutes ago. got it. if we fill the second box I'll contact you.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Price?

[thespian.livejournal.com]

the list price, $34.99.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

eagh. nevermind...

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Amazon is actually selling it for less than cost (the max wholesale discount you can get on this book for bulk is 45%, and they're selling it at 50% off, with a bonus $5 card to spend in August).

I genuinely don't mind when they sell things at 20-30% off; they don't have a store, and we do, we provide a much better service, and space for the community to actually come game, play, read, craft, put on plays, writing groups, and more.

But anyone selling this particular book under $22 is doing so in bad faith. I have to admit, I really wish that Harper Collins was releasing it under iPod rules, because the number of people who seem surprised that a bookstore would be selling a book at the price that it's marked with is irritating.

(while you didn't do it, I get about 3 people a week who say, 'Oh, I'll get it from Amazon' right after asking the price)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Nah. It was a matter of buy or not-buy rather than buy here or buy elsewhere. I have no need to own it and don't own the rest, and given that it took me until a couple weeks ago to read #5 I'm perfectly capable of waiting on #7 until some indeterminate time.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

I haven't managed to get into the store to pre-pay yet. Would you mind emailing me paypal info so I can take care of this? candle_light @ LJ works (mind the underscore). Thanks!

[thespian.livejournal.com]

posting here so anyone else will see, too, our paypal is general at pandemoniumbooks dotcom.

afterwards be sure to mail me and tell me what address you paid from.

Thanks!

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Hi. I've just sent a paypal payment through and I've emailed you the details. Thanks!

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

While we wouldn't want to back out of being part of the second box, we're only going to be in the States for a week after Baitcon and J really wants to have the book to read on the return journey to the UK. He asked me to let you know that if a second box hasn't been filled by a week before Baitcon, then we'd want to make other arrangements.

Hope that doesn't screw things up too much.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

It's now 10 July and we're wondering how much of a second box has been filled. We wouldn't want to prevent other people from being able to order if we backed out, but if the second box isn't close to being filled, we'd like to look into ordering the book elsewhere. There a loooong trip back to the UK in our future and J is particularly keen to have HP to read on that trip.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

doesn't look like the second box will be filled, but I have 4 people on the first box who haven't paid yet and who I'm giving until thursday to cough it up. you're first on the list of waiting people because you have a more pressing need than most ;-) I don't think getting you a copy will be a problem, and if I mess it up, you can have mine and I'll suffer through until I get back to get it ;-)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Thanks for that. ;-)

But the timing of the urgency might have been mis-communicated (sorry!). We aren't heading back to the UK directly after Baitcon; we'll be around for another week. Since our need is to have the book by the time we leave the US (the 30th), we're happy to get the book by other means. No need to bump us up to the front of the waiting list. In fact, we should be last priority since we wouldn't likely get to reading the book before the 30th.

Since it looks like it might be a close call on filling the first box if the 4 remaining people don't pay and you need 4 more orders to fill it, please post the status on Thursday or as soon as you know it. If it looks you'll definitely need our order to finish filling the first box, we'll do so. Otherwise, we'll order the book through other means.