Comments on: Ordering books from overseas http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/ Nick Ramsay, blogging from Japan. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:27:52 +0900 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mike Miller http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-3935 Mike Miller Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:36:07 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/#comment-3935 Nick, Great site. Was wondering if you have ever used any of the online book comparison sites when shopping overseas bookstores. They can include the shipping costs in their price comparisons and point you to the cheapest price. Two of the most popular are Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/ and Addall: http://www.addall.com/ Cheers, Mike Nick,

Great site.

Was wondering if you have ever used any of the online book comparison sites when shopping overseas bookstores. They can include the shipping costs in their price comparisons and point you to the cheapest price.

Two of the most popular are Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/ and Addall: http://www.addall.com/

Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Mike http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Mike Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:43:33 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/#comment-294 Yeah shipping can be quite expensive when ordering online! I ordered some cosmetics for Kikumi and im sure they are like 3 small jars of make-up and its costing like $15 to send... and thats the slow rate... the actual cost of the cosmetics is $30 and so basically almost half the cost of the cosmetics is being added to the total cost of $45... kind of ridiculous and thats the price you pay for shopping on the net... great deals but they get you with the shipping... Yeah shipping can be quite expensive when ordering online! I ordered some cosmetics for Kikumi and im sure they are like 3 small jars of make-up and its costing like $15 to send… and thats the slow rate… the actual cost of the cosmetics is $30 and so basically almost half the cost of the cosmetics is being added to the total cost of $45… kind of ridiculous and thats the price you pay for shopping on the net… great deals but they get you with the shipping…

]]> By: nick http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-290 nick Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:59:57 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/01/ordering-books-from-overseas/#comment-290 To follow up, they sent me the weight of the books which was 4.8kg, so I went to the U.K. post office site and used their calculator to work out the price of surface mail to Japan. Surprisingly, it was more expensive that the shipping costs Scholastic charged. So, in the end, I swallowed my pride and completed the order. Seven years of math curriculum and worksheets! Yep, this is all research material for my planned revamp of my Math Worksheet Wizard site. To follow up, they sent me the weight of the books which was 4.8kg, so I went to the U.K. post office site and used their calculator to work out the price of surface mail to Japan. Surprisingly, it was more expensive that the shipping costs Scholastic charged.

So, in the end, I swallowed my pride and completed the order. Seven years of math curriculum and worksheets! Yep, this is all research material for my planned revamp of my Math Worksheet Wizard site.

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