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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Do you think prices will drop much further

    Not with Interest rates being this low ;)
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    edited 25 November 2011 at 3:58PM
    Wheezy wrote: »
    Do you think prices will drop much further, tomterm?

    I read somewhere that Kindles are being sold at a loss, even at current prices, Amazon's strategy being build as much e-book marketshare as possible, with the profits coming from selling digital content afterwards.

    Amazon has been consistently dropping the price 40% plus a year. There will be a kindle that costs the same price as a hardback book not necessarily next Christmas, but certainly by the Christmas after. I'd lay odds that it won't be long after that the newspaper companies offer you 1 free kindle with a year e-newspaper subscription.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Amazon has been consistently dropping the price 40% plus a year. There will be a kindle that costs the same price as a hardback book not necessarily next Christmas, but certainly by the Christmas after. I'd lay odds that it won't be long after that the newspaper companies offer you 1 free kindle with a year e-newspaper subscription.

    Thanks.

    purch wrote: »
    Not with Interest rates being this low ;)

    There you are again purch, regurgitating the same old Kindle-bull memes and fall back positions. Yawn.
    Kindle prices can only go down, look at this graph


    chart-of-the-day-kindle-price-forecast-feb-2011.jpg

    :)
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    edited 25 November 2011 at 4:32PM
    I'm not saying that you're wrong; however, round my way kindles are in massive demand. It's impossible to get them in the shops and they are fetching up to £2,000 on the black market.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    I'm not saying that you're wrong; however, round my way kindles are in massive demand. It's impossible to get them in the shops and they are fetching up to £2,000 on the black market.

    I'll sell you one for £1,000.

    (sorry, mom)
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,467 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    I'll sell you one for £1,000.

    (sorry, mom)

    It's half-price compared to the £2000 ones because it's lost it's premium price as it's no longer a new-build?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Fake Merkel has continued tweeting away merrily today. My new favourites:

    Buying Sterling and gold. No reason.

    Pleasant lunch with the boys. Bit embarrassing when Monti had to call @Lagarde for permission before tipping the waiter.

    My AAA rating > RT@BarackObama: This Thanksgiving, what are you most thankful for?
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Thinking of LydiaJ.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Fake Merkel has continued tweeting away merrily today. My new favourites:

    Buying Sterling and gold. No reason.

    Pleasant lunch with the boys. Bit embarrassing when Monti had to call @Lagarde for permission before tipping the waiter.

    My AAA rating > RT@BarackObama: This Thanksgiving, what are you most thankful for?

    Black Friday phone call with @BarackObama. Discussed taking what little money is left and f**king off to Brazil.

    Cashing in my Euros at the airport. Crap exchange rate but it'll be worse on Monday.
  • sss555s
    sss555s Posts: 3,175 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Thinking of LydiaJ.

    Me too

    It's a horrible time which we all have to go through at some point and all our best wishes are with you.
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