If you like reading books, you’ll like this!
This Bank Holiday weekend (plus a few more days - Thursday 21st May and Tuesday 26th May) www.BookDepository.co.uk is offering an extra 10% discount on all their books.
Just use the promotional code SVVLV on Friends and Family Offer page to save an additional 10% on their (already really rather excellent) prices & don’t forget they have free delivery to over 90 countries around the world!
ohh bummers I just ordered 4 books the other day. Mad deal on the cheapest prices already!
Dang Nabbit! I just did my book order! :D Book Depository is seriously the best online shop for books! If you're wanting to get a book, I highly recommend it! +ve For you
I just ordered last night too! Darn. Now I'll just have to think of something else to order to take advantage of this offer! :)
Yeah I use booko all the time - and BetterWorldBooks and Book Depository are usually the winners in price.
Just got 8 paperbacks for $63 :)
Even more reason to love this excellent retailer!
thanks for that, i've never heard of this site before! and i'm looking to buy a book, perfect!
Book Depository is so damn good already.
I ordered 6 books from them a couple of weeks ago, they came within 8 business days. A relatively similar priced cheap bookstore - Better World in the US - I ordered 6 books on the 17th of April… still no show.
Book Depository + 10% discount? Pure gold.
Yeah, I got a delivery just last week from Better World Books - took every bit of the promised time - but they come with a nice surprise in them :)
fwiw i ordered two books from BWB on 3/4/09 and they arrived 12/5/09. .
Book Dep is quite fast so in future i think i'll deal with them over BWB unless BWB has some crazy offer.
On the other hand BWB raises funds for charitable causes
I used BetterWorldBooks when there was a 20% discount promotion. Got my package but it did take a while. No complaints though - was expecting the delivery to take a while. I think both services are pretty decent.
How long did it take? Sometimes they can be very fast.
Great deal, by the way. Deserves to be one of the top deals.
My BWB order took 2.5 weeks. Don't know if that's good or bad but I wasn't expecting it to arrive soon at the time, so no complaints.
does anyone know if this would work for pre-orders?
Wow, excellent post KingLouis! What a great deal!
Although I did buy a book a few days ago, I held off on a lot of other titles on my wishlist. This 10% discount came just at the right time, especially with the AUD on a little bit of a rebound!
Pre-orders do work - just tried it.
I found this code works too: TD7EE7
What benefit does that code provide please Sike?
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Hi teaearlgrey, I think it's for the same offer, so no benefit. It's always useful to have another code though :)
OK Sike, so that code also gives a 10% discount then, so the same "benefit" as SVVLV.
All good!
I just don't understand why I haven't rec'd an e-mail about this promo'.
Oh well, OzBargain to the rescue again.
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I like bookdepository for its price and speediness but lately they shipped some of my books using normal envelopes instead of the ones with hard card box. The books arrived in pretty bad shapes.
Interesting. All my paperbacks have come in bubblerwrapped envelops. Dont think I've ever got on in hard card box.
Hmm…same
what is paperback, what it is diff from normal one??
it's the opposite of hardcover lol
@megaloman: Were they single books? I never got mine in anything bigger than single envelopes — even when my order had multiple books. The envelopes were the bubble wrap padded kind, though, so unless the postman was extra careless with yours… :(
Awesome deal! Was just thinking about buying some stuffs. ^^ Will definitely have to do it, now, hehe..now the question is whether it's cheaper with 2.5% (Commbank) credit card international charge, or using the weaker USD in my paypal account…
my last order was 2 weeks ago for 5 books. The books were pack individually (one book per pack). The first three arrived at the same time within 8 days; two with hard card box and one with bubble wrap. The rest of the books came later in the week inside bubble wraps. By the way, they were all paperback photography books, quite heavy and about A4 size. Perhaps they use hard card box because of the size?
Get a Wizard Clear Advantage Credit Card - no annual fees, and no international charge! Just load it up with credit! Great CC for travelling and purchasing online.
Thanks for the suggestion, sadly, though, maybe cos I'm a poor student…-wry-
"We're sorry, but based on the information you've provided, we're unable to offer you a Wizard Clear Advantage MasterCard, as your application doesn't fall within our current acceptance guidelines."
Sigh. :(
awesome deal, hmm didn't think about the charge with credit card and paypal being usd, i just used paypal, it was easier.
If you prefer to be charged in USD, you can set Book Depository to display and charge in USD via the drop-down menu in the top right corner of any page on the Book Depository website.
Dont go USD though, AUS is strongest against the Pound.
That blanket statement can be slightly misleading given the fluid nature of international currency. In any case I have had a look at what works out better in the past and a lot of the times the conversions tend to be fairly similar.
eg: Currently: Tom Clancy Splinter Cell
In GBP = £5.33 = $10.8868378 AUD (@ 1 AUD = 0.489582018 GBP)
In USD = $8.42 = $10.8589115 AUD (@ 1 AUD = 0.7754 USD)
@GreenGuava: True, although it is also worth pointing out that with Mastercard and Amex (maybe Visa too) all transactions processed in a currency other than USD or AUD are converted into USD before being converted to AUD. This is using the current rate as set by the card provider though and this maye be better than the Book Depository rate.
@whichtyler: Yeah I've read something about that. That means that Book Depository GBP prices are first converted to USD and then finally to AUD, right? Just seems a bit convoluted to me, plus it makes the final AUD price a bit more variable given that the final AUD price depends on the cross conversion rates between GBP-USD and USD-AUD, which may be better or worse than the direct GBP-AUD rate. Bloody banks!
@GreenGuava: Surely the prices can't be all that different even if the conversion is done twice?
Unless books sell for thousands of dollars each, this should just be a difference of a few dollars at most, since most of the paperbacks there are around $8-10AUD and the hardcovers are like $20-30AUD
@KingLouis: Except that every currency conversion transaction has a profit margin (charge) built into it…
I do know that international M'card transactions used to be all converted via USD to AUD in years gone by, but I'm not so sure that that is still the case.
Perhaps someone out there that has current knowledge of these international banking transactions could please clarify/verify???
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fantastic! top bargain here and a fantastic site. iv bookmarked this one!
+1
Just placed three orders, discount worked each time. Might place a few more orders before it expires! Thanks once again to KingLouis!
Are the prices on BWB in AUD or USD?
USD
Um any one else now not able to use the additional coupon codes on checkout??
Coupon still works for me.
arhg I can't seem to find where to put the additional 10% coupon code! I did it yesterday without issue.
It's during checkout right?
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sigh I just spent $140 on this site lol
My epic fail @ saving :(
Or, you could say that you saved 10% more than you would have without the coupons :D
Just spent over £240—that's ~AUD$488—on 39 paperbacks. Do I have any contest?
Loving the already-cheap prices, free delivery, and additionally this discount code saved me almost $50. Thanks KingLouis, and thanks OzBargain!
lol $488AU for 39 paperbacks… I really thought that I would be the one at the top, but I spent no where as much as you lol
I'm getting 14 paperbacks and 1 hardcover :D
The 'best' I could muster was $365. Oh well, they were all titles that were on my wishlist anyway, so I would have bought them somewhere down the track. Just feels a bit thrifty because it was all in one hit. At least I saved 10% :)
Wow. Very nice. Book overload~ :)
I spent what USD I have, which is a modest under $100, but I'm happy with those I got, and definitely looking forward to getting 'em in the mail. ^^ First time preordering a book, too..
I should point out for those that are wondering how to actually use the promotional code, go to http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/fandf (friends and family) and then select the link to "go shopping". At the checkout page you'll see a textfield for the promotional code.
Thanks mate I was wondering how to do that!!
Ok time to buy books!
thanks!@
If you're still looking to take advantage of this offer, you better get in quick. Technically it should be expired (it is now 27 May in the UK) but the website still seems to be accepting the code, though who knows how long it will continue for.
Edit: It's over.
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Wow… 10% off the cheapest on-line bookshop around!!!
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