Buying books using Amazon vs Fishpond

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Since I live in Australia, shipping books from Amazon can be a significant cost in addition to the book price. Therefore, I was attracted to a New Zealand e-tailer called Fishpond who offers an Amazon lowest price guarantee.

However, there was some fine print where it can end up being more expensive than purchasing from Amazon. The catch is that shipping charges from Amazon are calculated as the sum of the base shipping charge and then the per item shipping charge, per book.

I’ve drawn up a spreadsheet (using numsum) to work this out. If you’re living in Australia, hope it helps you.

Comparison of Amazon vs Fishpond competitive pricing

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2 Responses to “Buying books using Amazon vs Fishpond”

  1. Virgil Dupras writes:
    No. 1 — March 19th, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    Hi. Could you please remove these posts from Planet Python? They’re kind of spammy. Maybe you could submit a Python specific feed instead?

  2. Chui writes:
    No. 2 — March 21st, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    Sorry, do you know of a contact at Planet Python. I had previously provided the RSS feed for all my python posts, but the new wordpress seems to have messed it up.

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