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"Special Offers" at W H Smith
In W H Smith today to get Writers' Forum mag to read while waiting for hospital appointment.
Decided to treat myself to a couple of books. Picked up "The Blasphemer", Nigel Farndall - buy one get another half price. But then chose "The Five people you meet in Heaven", Mitch Albom and "The Other Hand", Chris Cleave , so put Blasphemer back.
Meanwhile partner is saying "Spend £12 on any books and get one of these for £2.99"
Spent another 15 minutes looking at this selection trying to decide which was better value. Decided to go with what I had chosen and promised self Blasphemer next week. Got to till and was offered "Richard and Judy's Book Club offer...The Blasphemer... for half price. So bought it.
Got home and in bag with books and mag is a "spend £12 on books and get £5 off" voucher plus a "get Richard and Judy's Trespass for half price" voucher.
Are all these "special offers" designed to confuse ? Or is it just me ...
(if I look on Amazon for the 3 that I have bought, I bet I could have got them there cheaper anyway ! ;) )
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When I've checked later, the two books I bought, are cheaper than in Smiths. And they are books I want, not half want because in Smiths they never seem to have what I want.
Now i go to the library usually. You have to read the new books in a week, but it's worth it!
Thought that was just me!
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But with Amazon, you can't browse as easily as in a book store. You can look up a book of yur choice, but how do you find a book that you'd otherwise not know exists?
quite a lot do charge £2.00, £2.50 for books you could buy at a jumble for 30p each, although Sally Army, Barnados and Cancer Research, in my opinion are the cheapest. PDSA also do three for a pound.
I rarely go into Oxfam because their prices are usually silly although did go recently and buy a very nice hardback Harry Potter for £2.50 which I was happy to pay as my son hadn't read it and it was next on his list