New Harry Potter book all deals please post in this thread

Jummy

rdwarr wrote: »

£4 at Asda Stevenage between midnight and 1am.

I just got back from there and heard the announcement whilst shopping.

veruccasalt

MANDIE wrote: »

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!

Actually, I think you will find the opposite. The stores are all hungry for the early orders. Once the hype is over, you will find that Tescos, Asda, Sainsburys etc stop stocking it and the price will rise upwards.

THen the paperback will come out in due course.

veruccasalt

lauren_1 wrote: »

£5 is amore reasonable price and encourages literature more than £12.99 or so.

Actually, I disagree with this, I dont think £5 is a reasonable price to pay. Clearly, it cant cover the costs of producing, distributing, ordering, displaying, printing, artwork, materials......whilst paying those in the supply chain a decent wage. Someone somewhere is losing money-the big supermarkets can afford to do so, but very few other retailers can.

I therefore feel that £5 for a hefty hardback book is a quite obscenely low price to pay-and we are all guilty of fuelling the greed of the Big 4 Supermarkets and our consumer society.

So I am all for a fair price for a fair product (and I agree with raising income tax to pay for better public services for society as well, in case anyone asks! I think it is the Socialist in me!)

ramit

JABWootton wrote: »

Sainsbury's are looking at selling it for £4-97 so they can claim they were the cheapest

I'm surprised non of the big shops have done a deal where if you spend, say, £50 in store you get the Book FREE.

Is this true about Sainsburys? I heard they were selling at £8.87

funnyguy

I just got a voucher from sainsburys yesterday saying £1 off any book/magazine if I spend over £5..So I will buy my paper and book from there tomorrow and with my sons 15% discount card it will cost me £3.38...

vippymini

i do hope your right about sainsburys dropping the price, especially as we have 15% staff discount!!

otherwise i may have to go to morrisons...:cool:

purplepatch

sherbie28 wrote: »

Does anyone know if Amazon are gonna price match with the online offers? I pre-ordered mine from Amazon ages ago and I'm sure I remember reading something about a price match.

The guarantee was that if the Amazon price changed between ordering and dispatch you'd pay the lower price. See here.

Don't forget that if the Amazon price drops within 30 days of dispatch, you can email Amazon to ask for the difference to be refunded. Same applies to anything you buy from them.

Coldfinger

rchddap1 wrote: »

Mine have been ordered through Waterstones online. However the receipients wanted the adult version.....

Adult version???? Wow, I didn't know they did an uncensored version.

Harry Potter and the Dirty Harlots.... how blue is it?

thumperpie

Further to recent comments about the audio book version of Harry Potter, RNIB can supply the book in alternative formats of Braille and Daisy CD. Daisy is a structured audio format (basically MP3s with structure and markups) that you play using a Daisy player or some Daisy software on your PC. Price - £17.99, link here: -

http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_item.asp?n=11&c=456&sc=0&id=1295&it=2&l=2

The_Old_Bag

Got my copy at 12.30 this morning from Asda - £5. No mention of the £4 between 12 and 1 that rdwarrr mentioned happening in Stevenage.
Asked in Tesco and told price would be £10, unless you spent over £50, then would be £5.
Tbh, I think 'bookstores' know that supermarkets will undercut them everytime on one off like HP. That is life I'm afraid. Surley it is no crime - esp here on MSE - to buy at the lowest price. At the end of the day my buying the book from Asda has probably rung up a net loss to Asda - they must be selling under the cost price.
Equally my shopping at Tescos usually involves a lot of coupon useage, and dtd etc on overcharges, so again I should think independent stores would be relieved when I walk past them :rolleyes:
I do patronise local businesses, and tradesmen, but I have to count the pennies.

p.s I think the HP books are brilliant, just think what they have done for literacy in this country ( and probably abroad too) - as compared to the various "Government Initiatives" over the years. 12 years ago, could you have imagined people queuing for a midnight deadline for a childrens book release !!! All I had to inspire me was the likes of Enid Blyton and the Famous Five ! I know which I would have preferred.
I think JKR deserves a knifehood, if not to be made the first living Saint:A She deserves every penny she has made, Good luck to her