I need some help

[cottoncandypink]

Amazon is a cruel mistress, and isn't price matching one of my books because not enough people are reporting that it's free elsewhere. If you guys could go report it as being free, it would be much appreciated!

It will ask you for a URL for where the free book is located. Give it this one: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/466205

The book that needs to be reported:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MMZVIKW - US
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MMZVIKW - UK

Apparently this isn't a thing in all markets. :/

(Scroll down to the product details. There's a link that says "tell us about a lower price.")

If you have an account with another Amazon marketplace, and want to report it there as well, the link is pretty much the same across the board, with the exception of the top level domain.

Thanks, guys! :D

(And don't buy it, please. It sounds odd, but if Amazon sees an uptick in sales at the current price, it will continue to not be price matched.)

Comments

[i_am_your_host]

Done! And...I downloaded the free version. Because.

Why is Amazon charging for it if you wanted it to be free?

[cottoncandypink]

:D!

Amazon doesn't have an option to set it to be free, which is dumb. So I have to upload it elsewhere, and tell Amazon that they're overcharging. *eyeroll*

[cook_the_rude]

The German version doesn't have the 'cheaper elsewhere' option, sorry. It's not copyright infringement, it's not inappropriate content, it's something else which Amazon.de probably doesn't have as books are price controlled in Germany. Which is why German eBooks are frigging expensive, as the publishers have jointly decreed that no eBook shall be cheaper than a defined percentage of the current printed edition.

[cottoncandypink]

Rude. I had no idea.

Welp. I wonder how expensive some of my ebooks have become since they're also available in print. :/

[cook_the_rude]

Well, the price control only applies to German books (original or translated), so they can price yours as they want. But that's why books or eBooks haven't got that option here.

[cottoncandypink]

Wow. I wonder how many books get bought on the German marketplace that are free elsewhere.

[cook_the_rude]

Many of them, I suppose.

[herr_bookman]

Done and done. Congrats on writing a book!

[cottoncandypink]

Thanks! :D

[bjornwilde]

I am not seeing the option for "cheaper elsewhere", perhaps because I've already bought it? I had forgotten I did that and need to read it now. = ]

I should add I'm looking on the US site and I did do a word search in case I just was missing it.

[cottoncandypink]

It should be right here: http://i.imgur.com/GM40XX6.png

If not, *shrug* Amazon is weird.

[bjornwilde]

Ah, I see it now. And submitted feedback.

[cottoncandypink]

Yeah, it's not exactly in the most conspicuous of places, is it?

[bjornwilde]

It's almost liek they don't want to know of lower prices.

[fry_sandhu]

Done. I do have it on my to buy list though at some point, how long do you need me to hold off?

[cottoncandypink]

Well, it's going to be free, eventually. If Amazon ever gets off its ass. You might as well just grab it from Smashwords.

[nocarename]

Done and reported on the Canadian iteration of Amazon.

[cottoncandypink]

:D Thanks!