Has Amazon Gone Crazy?

Posted May 21, 2008 * Comments(3)

I’ve just been looking at getting a copy of the newly released Cocoa Programming 3rd Edition (tip o’ the hat to Scott Stevenson) and, as the link from there is to the U.S. Amazon site I saw the price there,

amazon.com

then going to my local U.K. based Amazon page to place an order and,

amazon.co.uk

well, what the fuck is that all about exactly? Check out the conversion rates…

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 28.79 British Pound = 57.526 US Dollar 28.79 US Dollar (USD) = 14.991 British Pound (GBP) Interbank rate +/- 2%

That’s getting on for sixty bucks! almost twice the price of the US site. That’s just fucking ridiculous.

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3 Comments so far

  1. Ronald Hatcher on June 10th, 2008

    I saw the same thing, so … ordered it from Amazon.com (since it was only available for pre-order in the UK) paid the international shipping and it was still loads cheaper than getting it here (and it arrived in a week too!)

  2. Ian on June 10th, 2008

    I’m probably going to do the same, it’s just really annoying to have to muck around like this.

  3. James fry on July 16th, 2008

    Welcome to rip-off britain/europe.