The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

[Aaron]

I ordered one off ebay for 25$

Guy probably built in the basement or something

[Flagg]

Does someone have to draw you a diagram to build a bucket lol

Apparently?

[Flagg]

I ordered one off ebay for 25$

Guy probably built in the basement or something

Didn't think about Ebay. I want an electronic one, though so I can just inhale rather than holding it in my mouth til it's cool. They are hella expensive, though.

[Aaron]

I got a digital but it's probably basic. I saw one for 199, digital and mixes cool air in.

[Flagg]

199 Canadian is like 3USD. Awesome.

[Aaron]

LOL, comes from Amsterdam.

[Flagg]

Yeah, but there are some places I can go to locally. Not ordering something from fucking Amsterdam.

[Losonti Tokash]

man a canadian dollar is now 97 cents here

[Aaron]

Highest its been in my lifetime

[Count Chocula]

Six years ago the Canadian dollar was .66 to $1.

666

think about it we're in the end times

[starku]

man a canadian dollar is now 97 cents here

American exchange rates ate hilarious

The only people dumber about FX are the English

[Phantasee]

we went up to 1.10 USD to 1 CAD for a bit, aaron

that was sweet

everyone was buying cheap shit in the US for cheaper than ever

but books were still more expensive in canada

dumb enough to publish both prices on the flap

[Count Chocula]

we went up to 1.10 USD to 1 CAD for a bit, aaron

that was sweet

everyone was buying cheap shit in the US for cheaper than ever

but books were still more expensive in canada

dumb enough to publish both prices on the flap

US & Canada best markets for books published in New York. What does that say about England?

"fook books, let's have more chips and beer!"

[Phantasee]

what the fuck does that have to do with england???

[Aaron]

Oh right, I forgot about that.

Wasn't London a major publishing hub?

[Count Chocula]

well england's the closest english speaking state to the USA aside from canada and hawaii i suppose and trucks can get to canada very easily whereas they have a bit of bother driving to england and by the time they drive there over the Atlantic the exchange rate's likely to have changed. So that's why we don't have the price in pounds on the jackets of our books.

[Phantasee]

yeah well when our rates did change we wondered why our dollar was at parity or worth more yet we pay anywhere from 3-10 dollars more

you don't let people know they're being fucked y'know

it was always a sore spot, but we kinda shrugged and went along with it because our dollar was known to be weaker

have to keep on top of your shit if you don't want people to question your pricing schemes nahmean

[starku]

Printing prices on books at all seems an anachronism
And those in au have uk/au/us/can prices so

Publishing industry out of touch etc

[Count Chocula]

yeah god forbid Ace or Baen or Tor price in US$ on the jacket so they make their margin then oh i don't know sell to Canada at an arbitraged price based on trends in different currency values like every other fucking manufactured item. why not price Honor Harrington Space Witch of Honor in Euros? dunno.

that part of book pricing always struck me as a little fucked up, 'cause the math really ain't that hard.

[Darth Fanboy]

yeah well when our rates did change we wondered why our dollar was at parity or worth more yet we pay anywhere from 3-10 dollars more

you don't let people know they're being fucked y'know

it was always a sore spot, but we kinda shrugged and went along with it because our dollar was known to be weaker

have to keep on top of your shit if you don't want people to question your pricing schemes nahmean

The cost of doing business across a border, even the longest unprotected border aside from Snooki's vajayjay, is quite high.

[starku]

They're all stocked, inventoried, shipped, and priced electronically
This is literally nothin to do with some asinine idea to just use USD for no reason
The point is printing any price on the book is dumb because it'll just be priced over anyway, rendering it useless

Beyond letting customers know much they're getting marked up

Does a coke can need a price on it?

[Darth Fanboy]

They're all stocked, inventoried, shipped, and priced electronically
This is literally nothin to do with some asinine idea to just use USD for no reason
The point is printing any price on the book is dumb because it'll just be priced over anyway, rendering it useless

Beyond letting customers know much they're getting marked up

Does a coke can need a price on it?

There are a lot of retailers that do not price over the books here in the US. I think only the major book chains do that for most titles. Places like Wal Mart or Target may do that with some titles but not all and they don't generally carry that many books either like a Barnes and Noble would.

This does not mean that I disagree with you. The publishing industry is crooked as fuck, how else do you explain why the term "bestseller" is used. When all it means is that retailers have a shitload of copies on hand for you to buy since they are the ones buying the damn copies.

p.s. there are also some beverage cans with prices printed on them over here also.

[starku]

I have never seen a book not on sale . Books not individually priced are almost always three for ten bucks toilet paper stuff

But if it useful in the is why do it for non us copies or indeed for publishers that generally don't sell in the us unless prices are unusually static there? Very strange. Even high end stuff (books priced at hundreds of bucks) sometimes have prices printed on, I have seen prices printed on fucking leather bound books

Who does this help? Why do they hate the illegal immigrant stock boys ?

[Zod]

this article has an interesting explanation on the whole pricing phenomenon

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012 ... ng-shafted

[Oxymoron]

In France books have fixed prices set by the State.