Corrected

[dianeduane]

The problem with e-Junkie which would have asked readers for $599.00 for each copy of the MS Reader version of A Wind from the South.

(I think moderately well of my work, but, guys, not THAT well.) ;)

Comments

[mneme]

Heh.

But what if you'd found someone willing to pay that? :)

[dduane.livejournal.com]

I would have clutched my head (we get a lot of that around here), shrieked loudly and repeatedly at the thought of the post-holiday bills (doesn't bother me at the moment, I have an ear infection and am half deaf), and then told them to Get A Clue and give me $5.99.

[mneme]

Point. Morallity's a pain, isn't it?

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

*snicker* *makes note to self to get a copy in PalmOS format*

That way I can always say I have a book with me if I have my Handspring PDA.

=D

As for the headclutch... who knows, maybe someone willing to pay that much would figure "Maybe it's just THAT good". *teasing*

C.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

PalmOS is down under the other two in the sidebar. iPod (linked text files) will be following shortly.

As for the tease... (grin) Maybe someone would. But it would be wicked to take advantage: there's too much junk like that running around in the world as it is. (Today alone I received *twenty-three* "You have won Some Unlikely Lottery" spams.)

That said, if somebody wants to *purposefully* take leave of their senses, it's not like they can't use the PayPal link to do so. But bloody well I'll query them first. :)

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(and there's a thought in passing: I should put up a downloadable map pack for those who already have the Palm version.)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

So you're not Greenpeace?

BTW - what camera does P use?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

Re Greenpeace: :) Why, what did they do? I must have missed something.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Greenpeace overcharged its members a couple of weeks ago. Those members paying by monthly direct debit had their December-end subs overcharged by a factor of 100. So ... a member who paid £5.99 per month would have had £599 extracted from their account.

There were quite a few howls from their members - I wonder why, that's only 8 years 4 months subs in one go.

The difference here is that Greenpeace took the money first, whereas your customers will have seen the price first and had a theoretical chance to back out. (Theoretical only, of course. Who can live without aWftS? Happily, we have the two hard copies from '95.)

Another recent case of mischarging was when Blizzard's first tranche of credit card payments for the World of Warcraft game appeared on credit cards as having been paid to one of a number of hotels, including the Swallow Hotel in Harrogate. A nice take on it is here, but at least (a) the right amount of money was deducted, and (b) it went to Blizzard, who knew they'd had it, and honoured it. It was only the credit card statements that came out wrong, but at least one person I know cancelled his card before he found out.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Good gosh. Boy, if that happened on one of *my* DD's, they'd hear about it all the way to the Moon.

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

Oh they did - I don't know how many members they lost but it wasn't a small number, plus the cost of reimbursing fees and 'bad will'. Its the kind of software error which one can't believe was missed in testing.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

Aha. Very cute - that looks like a pretty good compact. Having just bought a new (to me, second-hand) Nikon SLR, I was wondering about interchangeability of parts, and remember him playing with filters. But now I recall, he was hanging out of the window of the Café Huguenin with a filter hand held over the lens. So unless he happens to have 67mm filters, no.

(And why, oh why, does every camera use a different memory card? My Fuji uses Smart Media, bellinghwoman's Fuji takes SD, my Nikon takes Compact Flash, and the Sony takes Memory Stick.)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

One does wonder - well, I wonder - what actually happened. It's not as though they hadn't been receiving DD payments for years from some of these accounts.

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

He has a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W17. Very sweet little machine. (7.2 megapixel.)

So [Unknown site tag] do you consider that you come out on top?? :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Who?

[hypatia.livejournal.com]

bah humbug, go back to work and stop following up before I can correct my tags :P

But the question stands... (how is the new baby by the way?)

[singer-mn-lead.livejournal.com]

that's a much better price. wouldn't pay that much for it. i'll spend that getting my library card replaced. as it is, i've got to tear the world apart looking for it anyway. even if i could pay either 599.00 or 5.99 i couldn't. i don't have the right computer to. i don't have a computer.

[singer-mn-lead.livejournal.com]

i meant to say, i heard it's a great book. wish I could read it.

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

I know I said the other day that price was no object when it came to getting one of your books--but even *I* wouldn't pay that much! (grin)