I've gotten shipping charges waived before when I ordered from Amazon. Dunno whether it's some offer thing or what. I ordered 5 books which cost more than US$100... Amazon shipped express and didn't charge me for shipping. Unfortunately I do not know if it's a regular thing they do, or was I plain lucky.
If ordering through Borders, you usually have to wait for a few weeks. Advantage is you can pay in S$ and no additional shipping costs (which would have been priced in anyway!)
Another quality, non aquatic-related post from mrs budak!
keep us posted.----------------
btw, I'm not sure who mentioned this earlier, but I just called Borders and they confirmed that they can bring in this book. So we may be able to just get it from borders. As for the price, they will have to check as its not available on the system. The lady told me that she will call me back in 3 days time... so don't go rushing off to order yet. this way we may be able to save shipping costs...
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thomas liew
Unfortunately I do not know if it's a regular thing they do, or was I plain lucky.
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Amazon.com gives great service. I once bought a set of DVDs from them. It was a collector's set of 7 DVDs. When I came to the last one, nothing happened when I put the DVD into my player. Something was wrong with the DVD so I wrote to Amazon to complain. I didn't want to send the whole set back to them as it would mean incurring furthur shipping costs.
Amazon.com was really amazing. They sent me a brand new set free of charge by courier. They didn't just replace the faulty DVD, mind you. They sent a whole set and they didn't even insist that I return the old one.
Loh K L
This happened to me as well. I ordered the Superman collection (4 DVDs) and the first and most important DVD Superman 1, had a bad skip problem near the end of the film. I emailed them and said that only the 1st disk was bad, but they just sent me all 4 DVDs again.----------------
Amazon.com was really amazing. They sent me a brand new set free of charge by courier. They didn't just replace the faulty DVD, mind you. They sent a whole set and they didn't even insist that I return the old one.
Loh K L
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So anyone wants Superman II, III, IV and a skippy Superman I on DVD, let me know[]
eggz
I'm not so lucky. Got a mafia trilogy and it was fine. Then a few months later, the 2nd movie doesn't work anymore. Wrote to Amazon but it was more than 90 days already. Too late.
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
No Problem... will post their (Borders) reply once I hear from them.----------------
keep us posted.
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Allen
latest update.----------------
On 11/12/2002 7:48:13 AM
got a reply from Robert of aquabotanic.
for 10 books the price is usd60.
shipping is 3-4weeks.
but he is unsure of the shipping cost.
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shipping cost for 10 books is us66.2
shipping time is about 7 days.
there is a cheaper rate, which is being checked, but shipping time is 7-8weeks.
thomas liew
Baton courtesy.....service with a smile!
7-8 weeks could be by ship.[
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Tawauboy,
Do you know how that price is calculated? Ie. By per book, or by weight category (i.e. fixed price for anything within a weight range), or by size category, or...?
Vincent - AQ is for everyone, but not for 'u' and 'mi'.
Why use punctuation? See what a difference it makes:A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
Vinz,
Sorry no idea.
if by courier, then it will be by weight.
by surface shipment, then it will by size.
thomas liew
1) tawauboy
2) eggz
3) vinz
4) hwchoy
5) simon
6) budak
7) bfg
ryan
9) anakin
10) loupgarou
11) benetay
12) geoffrey
13) lip
14) Allen_1971
15) Jacian
16) sherchoo
You guys have any idea if the plants pics are water color or photographs in this book?
BC
1) tawauboy
2) eggz
3) vinz
4) hwchoy
5) simon
6) budak
7) bfg
9) anakin
10) loupgarou
11) benetay
12) geoffrey
13) lip
14) Allen_1971
15) Jacian
16) sherchoo
17) gmach
Don't be afraid of my duck!
Reports from APD say it's colour photos. Also that it has probably the most comprehensive coverage of crypts in any reference book. That's it.... I must GET IT!!!
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On 11/14/2002 2:06:08 PM
You guys have any idea if the plants pics are water color or photographs in this book?
BC
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hello all,
photographs. very nice ones.
Wahboy
waHHHhh very interesting leh.. but its too expensive for me man...
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On 11/14/2002 10:21:34 PM
Reports from APD say it's colour photos. Also that it has probably the most comprehensive coverage of crypts in any reference book. That's it.... I must GET IT!!!
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budak, you crypt-siow ar? must pass my some tips leh, I crypt-baby
why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica
Passion through Apisto
Crytos are really nice plants, leave them in an area untouch for months or even years will show their true colours .
Cheers!
Benetay
for 7-8 weeks shipping time, the rate is cheaper by about 30% compared to 7 day delivery.----------------
On 11/14/2002 12:26:50 AM
latest update.----------------
On 11/12/2002 7:48:13 AM
got a reply from Robert of aquabotanic.
for 10 books the price is usd60.
shipping is 3-4weeks.
but he is unsure of the shipping cost.
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shipping cost for 10 books is us
shipping time is about 7 days.
there is a cheaper rate, which is being checked, but shipping time is 7-8weeks.
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so it approx us
thomas liew
Quite frustrating really... I just spent the last 30 mins talking with a borders employee. To cut a long story short, I haven't heard from the lady I spoke to, and so I decided to give a call. Unfortunately I didn't get the name of the person I spoke to last time... Instead I ended up talking to 2 different customer service reps who in short told me that they don't know how much the book would cost....
Anyway,he told me that the usual practice is that they will take the retail price of the book and multiply by about 1.8 for USD... meaning we have to pay S$84.50X1.8 = 152.10...
So unless I hear from that lady who I spoke to earlier, I doubt it would be cheaper to go through borders
Allen
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