Warren Seen

amazon.com knows where I live (mostly, I’ve only had one order that got returned to them as undeliverable). So why, oh why, can they not display, at LEAST, an approximate local currency price for the books I’m looking at? I’ll take the disclaimer that it’s a guide only, etc, just please, save me from flipping between the books I want and an FX converter to figure out how much it’s really going to cost me.

Footnote: I wonder how much amazon is eating into Au brick+mortar bookstores? I never bother with my local bookstore for 90% of what interests me, it takes them longer and costs me more to order the books I want in from their warehouse or whatever. Maybe 10 years ago people were willing to put up with this situation, but not when they can find a better service online in another country.

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