Book buying as masochistic endeavour

[thebitterguy]

Okay. I REALLY want the Morrison New X-Men omnibus. Much more than I thought I did, because it's turned into such a chore to get it. Now, my FNSLCS is selling it for cover (i.e. $120 Canadain). So no. Dragon Lady has promised to sell it to me for less, but a strange quirk of physics has rendered them incapable of having a copy for sale when I'm in the store with money to buy. So, I start looking online.

If I go to Amazon.com, I can get it for
62.99 US. This is actually the best option so far, even if I do get dinged for GST & Customs, which is unlikely given what I've heard. Oh, wait. No free shipping. Fuckberries. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem, except it weight is seven pounds.

While I can get it for$67.14 from Buy.com, they'll also charge me for shipping if I get it there.

Amazon.ca will sell it to me for $100.80, which is NOT a corrrect translation of the US price. However, I'd not have to pay for shipping.

Chapters has the best price, having it for $73.32, also with free shipping. This is, of course, fucking useless as it is out of stock. Thanks a lot, Heather, you whore.

They can also sell it to me for $67.05 used, so I dunno if that's worth it. It depends how 'used' it is, really.

Have I angered the saint of book buying? Am I a bad person?

Comments

[skaiser.livejournal.com]

Well,

Keep your eyes open. The problem with the book is that Diamond ships marvel stuff. Diamond doesn't have any proper distribution set up for Canada. So Indigo has to make mass purchases and sit on them until over all quantities go down, and then make another purchase. Its just too hard and expensive to keep constant open channels with Diamond as everything has to come up from the states, rather than a warehouse here in Canada.

[thebitterguy]

Any idea as to the frequency they get them? I've got a coupon that I'd like to use.