There send to be a whole bunch of terrible Amazon e-books that are being posted at the moment.
In my opinion, books that haven't really sold any (or just a handful of) copies at their normal price and then being made free, to me is not really a genuine bargain and should not be listed on here.
Am I the only one that sees it that way?
I agree. Is there a way we can filter these out? Others might be interested in the free e-books.
Subjective, it can be a bargain to someone else
but but but
post count = penis size
Lol it's looking grim for you my friend.
Post count 2.
Aardvarks are known better for their noses than their members..
Lol :) what about hucksters? 6 :p
Meanwhile slippery fish on 22 :p
Actually zero, forum threads are counted too.
It comes with the territory I think. I felt the same when I got sick of seeing rubbish apps making it to the front page. Unfortunately I got jumped on and shot down with negative comments for daring to "down vote a free thing."
Do you recall which deal you down voted?
It's not showing in your list of voted deals except for a $50k car deal, but maybe your neg got revoked?
I've had down votes revoked before. Not sure if that was the case there?
Also, unless you have ironclad proof to why you downvoted, your comments will likely be extremely unpopular.
I get comments negged a lot in the forums lately. Doesn't mean they're wrong though haha.
Not that they hold a grudge or anything…
Incidentally, it was also their first deal vote. Great contribution at the time.
Rubbish is a relative term. Don't want to judge a book by its cover, but Amazon usually does have reviews posted. And anyone who posts or votes on such a deal doesn't think it's rubbish.
Maybe you can neg vote such deals if you genuinely consider the book to be rubbish?
I've ordered a couple so, I'm not judging by the cover.
The one that was the most poignant example was this one, which just had terrible recipes. My 2 year old (who's actually German, unlike the author of this book) could come up with better meals.
Okay I think it's good you neg voted to share a different view and your evaluation of the content. I think that will often reduce the number of + votes.
Maybe you need some others to neg vote with you, but personally I'm not about to go reviewing free ebooks.
Unless you are German too your 2 year old is only half-German and then only by blood.😉
No substitute for growing up German which is really what makes a German a German.😆
I actually agree with you. In the eyes of the law he's 100% German and 100% Australian though.
Plus I only speak German to him and he's been in Germany before. Still not the same, but better than nothing.
Thought the same thing. Most of the cookbooks are all by the same author, Anthony Boundy, who seems to be an expert in 459 different types of cuisine.
I suspect hardly anyone actually downloads the book let alone reads them. I wonder how many have finished reading any of them
But I know people like to collect them for whatever reason.
The argument could be made for shovelware games, absolute trash that i would never download but I add them to my Steam library anyway. I wouldn't want to ban them from being posted as deals
If you're just hoarding them why not just get them from tpb?
Some drop trading cards which are worth a few cents. I don’t even download the games from Steam, why would I bother pirating shovelware?
Just to clarify, the problem isn't the calibre of ebooks. It's the calibre of voters. And the fact there's no voting option to say "thanks, but I won't upvote so as to avoid confusing the world into thinking it's a front-page-worthy deal". OzBargainers were heavily upvoting flight deals as countries began closing their borders…and even cruise deals. Never overestimate the intelligence of the general population.
Haha, yes, thanks for that clarification, I agree!
If there was also a "nah" option rather than just a "F@$%ING NO!!!one!!!" option and a ratio decided whether this was front-page worthy or not, would be fine. The bar for a downvote on here is extremely high and often hard to justify, even if it's a terrible product/vendor.
If anything, it has taught me more about reading and producing. Anyone can write a book with amazon, you dont need a publisher.
Its good to have that skill in being able to read/skim a book, and know if its going to be terrible. You need this for all sources of information. Hard copy books do this, and are marketed heavily.
I don't like threads where people complain about catagorys of threads/deals that they don't like. I'm tempted to start a thread about it but don't want to contradict myself.
Hi all
I'll put my hand up and say that I am one that posts ebook deals. I have to agree that the quality of the ebooks posted as of late is questionable which is why I've decided to do the following -
1) limit ebook deals to once a week though I might share the odd ebook if I find something that is good.
2) Posts to include a number of ebooks that cover a range of subjects where possible.
2) Post ebooks with a minimum 4 star rating.
Thanks, that sounds good. Could I ask for one more?
4 star rating and a minimum of 20 reviews
I personally don't have any issue with the deals.
Some seem interesting but I don't think I would ever read any of the books but I'm sure others might. (Just curious.. have you read many?)
If you were keen try improve quality of posts:
I think a rule of thumb should be "Would you post this as a deal if it were half price?". If the answer is no then I think it is something people are unlikely to really find useful.
Maybe there should be a long running deal for free amazon books and free udemy courses?
(Or something similar to petrol price thread?)
Yes.