Caolan McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:21:22 +0100, David O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > What are your recommendations for buying books (technical and
> > otherwise) online, from Irish or European sellers. Is there
> > anywhere that has as good a selection as, say, Amazon but
> > deals in Euro?
>> amazon.de and amazon.fr ? :-)
Having recently checked out both of these, for a selection of
books, the exact same basket of books cost more in both .de and
.fr (taking delivery charges, VAT et al into account) than buying
the same thing in amazon.co.uk
The books I used to check were
1) C unleashed (Heathfield et al)
2) Design Patterns (Gamma et al)
3) Computer Graphics, principles and practice (Foley et al)
I was hugely surprised that amazon.co.uk worked out cheapest - by
a considerable margin, too - something like 12 euros after
freight was taken into account.
Cheers,
Dave.
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David Neary,
Marseille, France
E-Mail: bolsh at gimp.org
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