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Posts: 2 · Joined: Jul 3, 2007 Location: Preston Posts: 2

ASDA, a British supermarket chain owned by Walmart, hahave fallen out with Harry potter publisher Bloomsbery over the retail price of the book. ASDA say Bloomsbery's £17.99 price tag is too high!
What do you think is a fair price and how much are you willing to pay for the new book?

See full article and other HP trivia here:http://www.lep.co.uk/news?articleid=3035902

Posts: 123 · Joined: Jul 14, 2007 Location: Narnia Posts: 123

in the USA, it runs around $30, which I think is pretty pricey. I got a deal on mine by ordering online from Amazon.com so i'm only paying $21.99 or something with shipping and handling. I've heard of other people getting it for less, too, but I think that for $30, it had better be pretty good. Unless it's massively big. But still, I agree. Too expensive.

Posts: 373 · Joined: May 7, 2007 Location: Sussex, UK Posts: 373

I think its an okay price, if people want the book that badly people will pay it so....

So ASDA arent selling any now are they ??
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Posts: 2 · Joined: Jul 3, 2007 Location: Preston Posts: 2

And now, would you believe it - Tesco and ASDA are selling the book for £5 - that's about $10 US I think!
http://www.lep.co.uk/entertainment?articleid=3046907

I think the idea is "get 'em in the door and they'll spend, spend, spend"

The big supermarkets can afford to sell like this - i.e. making a loss on some products - which makes me like them even less!

Posts: 17350 · Posted: July 20, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject:

geesh thats cheap! I think they're going to be $17 at walmart, I thought that was a good price. but compared to $10 its not.
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Posts: 23 · Posted: July 20, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

The Canadian price for the book is $45. I'm getting it from chapters.indigo.com and I'm only paying $32 with priority shipping. It's pretty expensive.
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Posts: 28374 · Posted: July 20, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

yeah its something like that here... close to $30... well it really depends on the demand for the book. the demand is REALLY high, we all know that. naturally the prices will soar up too.
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A bit expensive but you're getting 700+ pages to read so it's not really that big of a deal to me.
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anyone that paid over $20 got hosed big time. Walmart sold if for $17.

Posts: 70 · Posted: July 23, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:

I pre-ordered my book and it cost me about $20.00 in the us.
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