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

[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.