[ILUG-Social] Online Bookstores

[Oisin Kim]

I've slways found micromail in Cork to have excellent service, they were
recommended to me by someone who has had good experiences with them,
Next day delivery by courier is 5 quid as far as I remember

Oisin

-----Original Message-----
From: social-admin at linux.ie [mailto:social-admin at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
Brendan Kehoe
Sent: 07 August 2002 22:24
To: David O'Callaghan; social at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG-Social] Online Bookstores


On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:21, David O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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?

In the reverse, I can encourage you to not try using the Easons online 
ordering system.  After waiting a month, I wrote them only to find that
some 
books were out of stock (not indicated on the website when I was
ordering), 
some out of print (also not indicated), and one would actually show up
via 
regular post---in a week's time.  For one book that I was told was out
of 
stock, I found that the store on O'Connell Street did in fact have two
copies 
of it on their shelf.  I just bought it there and asked for it to me
part of 
everything that I was cancelling.

I'm really interested in what places in Ireland people have found are
able to 
do a reasonable job with online ordering.  Amazon has been attacked for 
overtaking the local bookstore owner, yet I'm finding a lot of local 
bookstores have a lot of trouble executing the online sales model.

B

-- 
Brendan Kehoe
brendan at zen.org

http://www.zen.org/~brendan/


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