New Harry Potter book all deals please post in this thread

MANDIE_3

Hi all
Apparently the £5 Asda deal is now sold out online but is still available instore. I wanted to get it online as well as we don't have an ASDA near by. Still once the hypes died down its bound to be available cheap somewhere!

Poppycat

Yes its a free market but unfortunately the bigger picture is that many small independent stores may go under. It isnt just competition that will be hit but choice, as supermarkets will not stock a huge variety unlike the many small independents.

phantomteabagger wrote: »

It's a free market, what's the problem.

allsinginganddancing

Asda has sold out on line so its off to the store!

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lauren_1

I love it, had to snigger when BIL ordered his from waterstones for a good part of £35 for 2, good on asda. I dont care if overpriced indipendant book shops go under or take a dip in their takings with 3 books to buy (my siste rwants one, my daughter and myself) £5 is amore reasonable price and encourages literature more than £12.99 or so.

johnnyshuttle

deanos wrote: »

Probably because it will put the smaller bookshops out of business and when they are all gone the big boys can charge what they like ?

Our bookshop in town is charging £9.95 which is good for a small bookstore, but now everyone will go to the supermarket to get a copy.

Oh well we could do with yet another charity shop on the high street when it closes

Yeh, it's the same where I live, Charity shops, hole in the wall, pubs and foreign take aways!

John

rchddap1

Mine have been ordered through Waterstones online. However the receipients wanted the adult version....so if there is a better deal on offer on the day from a store we can go grab them...whilst I return the online ordered ones to a store to get a refund. Either way I'll have two happy girls.

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deanos wrote: »

Probably because it will put the smaller bookshops out of business and when they are all gone the big boys can charge what they like ?

Our bookshop in town is charging £9.95 which is good for a small bookstore, but now everyone will go to the supermarket to get a copy.

Oh well we could do with yet another charity shop on the high street when it closes

I don't exist simply to keep businesses profitable. If I can save money I will. If a shop goes out of business so be it.

ameliaejones

im just buying mine from water stones

alchemista

Poppycat wrote: »

Yes its a free market but unfortunately the bigger picture is that many small independent stores may go under. It isnt just competition that will be hit but choice, as supermarkets will not stock a huge variety unlike the many small independents.

Do you realize how old this argument is? It goes probably back to the first humans. You can't defeat progress, you can only delay it.

We shouldn't have let people use agricultural machines because the bigger picture was farmers wouldn't have as much work. We shouldn't have domesticated animals, because then the poor hunters couldn't work. We shouldn't have invented e-mail because the postal services would lose out..... and so on and so on...

scat

Speaking as a Librarian I don't care where people buy it! The fact that so many do buy it is a great thing! Small independant stores can't compete in cases like this but the sensible ones won't even try! In the long term getting more people hooked on reading can only be a good thing. They all stand to profit from that.