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« on: June 21, 2009, 11:28:58 AM » |
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 Following the advice that if you raise your 99 cent book to a buck, Amazon will dsicount it to 80 cents, we raised the price on Murphy's World: Essays From Martial Artists Wired ... checked this morning and Amazon gave it a whopping 1 cent discount. Well, there's a bargain for ya!
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Carol Hanrahan
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2009, 11:35:52 AM » |
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They did that to me too. After awhile, they lowered it to 0.80. Give it a day.
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angelad
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2009, 12:48:42 PM » |
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LMAO.
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Kevis 'The Berserker' Hendrickson
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2009, 01:10:13 PM » |
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They did that to me too. After awhile, they lowered it to 0.80. Give it a day.
Thumper, Carol's right. It takes about 24 hours for the Amazon computer to update the 20% discount. Within a day your book should be lowered to 80 cents. |
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Dave Dykema
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« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2009, 06:41:48 AM » |
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I lowered the price of my books on Friday and am still waiting for the discount to show up. Anybody else ever had to wait this long?
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Elmore Hammes
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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 06:49:56 AM » |
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I had a short story (  ) priced at $1.99, decided to lower it yesterday to $1.00 since my full-length novels were priced at $1.99. The discount processing hasn't gone through on the new list price yet, so it shows a recommended price of $1.00 with a selling price of $1.59 (the original discount price). I am not sure how people will react to seeing a higher sales price than suggested price! Hopefully this will clear up in another day or so and it will be priced at $0.80. |
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CS
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« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2009, 06:56:03 AM » |
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I think something is wrong with Amazon's price change mechanism right now. I noticed Wrong Number had only a discount of 5% instead of the usual 20%, so I knew a price drop was coming. But it never happened, so I bought it anyway. I like a bargain, but I didn't want to wait to save 30 cents (or whatever it will be) when I had already gotten into the sample.  |
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Dave Dykema
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« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2009, 07:30:38 AM » |
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I've decided to price my books at $1.24, which will sale them at $.99. I think if you can keep it under a dollar magical, wonderful things happen as opposed to trying to eek out a few cents more and pricing at $1.49. Greed, if only for a couple pennies, doesn't seem to work on Kindle. Sounds like the lesson from a nursery rhyme.
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Thumper
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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2009, 07:16:54 PM » |
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Nice! They raised it to full price! I guess we should have left it alone...
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lkcampbell
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2009, 05:41:30 AM » |
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I don't know what's going on, either. I tried to reduce the price of one of my older books from $2.50 to $1.99. It now shows the list price as $1.99 and the purchase price as $2.40. On my other $1.99 books, it shows the purchase price as $2.00. I wish Amazon would fix whatever is screwed up. I wanted to reduce all of my backlist, but what's the point?
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Elmore Hammes
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2009, 06:54:54 AM » |
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I sent an e-mail to dtp-feedback asking about the price change delays, I will respond once I hear back. I am sure the list price of $1.00 with a higher selling price of $1.59 isn't exactly a positive for my short story...
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Greg Banks
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« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2009, 10:52:43 AM » |
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Following the advice that if you raise your 99 cent book to a buck, Amazon will dsicount it to 80 cents, we raised the price on Murphy's World: Essays From Martial Artists Wired ... checked this morning and Amazon gave it a whopping 1 cent discount. Well, there's a bargain for ya! It wasn't showing a 1 cent discount, it was reflecting the difference between the old list price and the new. The last time I changed the price of one of my ebooks it tool a few days for the price to update to reflect the discount. I don't know what's going on right now, but eventually the price will update. |
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Carol Hanrahan
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« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2009, 03:44:31 PM » |
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I dunno. Some of my discounts just disappeared. Now, they are up to 1.00.
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lkcampbell
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« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2009, 07:10:12 PM » |
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Well, I just checked, and my sale price finally matches my list price but there's no discount.
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Elmore Hammes
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« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2009, 07:24:54 AM » |
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I think they finally processed price changes - three of my titles changed in pricing - hopefully in a day or two discounts will kick in again (unfortunately the discount was dropped from a couple titles even though their pricing had not changed)
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Thumper
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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2009, 06:56:12 PM » |
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Looks like they're cutting discounts across the board. This bites...
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