polkadotbliss said:

Unfortunately it's not cheaper.
It's $10 to set up an account, $30 for a one-time use, plus the cost of the CD = $52 = £37 = €40.

Do you remember how much the 21 nights book was when it first appeared on Amazon for pre-order? It ended up dropping to around £15 upon release.

Amazon have to put some price up. It may end up being less. Everyone needs to take a deep breath and stop getting your knickers in a twist.

KeithyT said:

No one's knickers are in a twist, we are just reacting to a real piece of information just posted on amazon. They originally had a different price, this is the second amended one.

as soon as anyone comments negatively on here, we get the usual.. oh calm down, knickers in a twist comments. we are just discussing it! We are talking about cd's for gods sake not world politics.

I'm off to the States Fri 10th April staying near quite a few Target stores, I guess I could buy some for you guys & post when I get home? Works out approx GBP 9.22 per copy plus UK postage which is not that much. Anyone know what the customs restrictions are? Don't fancy a full body search
[Edited 3/16/09 3:33am]

KeithyT said:

Yeah, it was around £20.

lalalailoveu said:

You know what? I personally wouldn't ask you to do it. But it is so nice to hear of someone who, in genuine fan kindness would do that. Take a bow, you are a good reminder of what was fun to be a prince fan...

and here i was thinking it was only the american and british governments that believe they have a licence 2 print money !!

Rorywan said:

and there was me all confused...

yeah unfortuately we british seem to have to pay double the price as to what the us are paying.....
l thought the price was a bit deep but why ????

according to the amazon pre-order sales
the price is £33.29 then vat so after tht its comes to £34.72 (meanin $49.28 )
thts 50 dollars we re paying compare to the americans....

l thinks its all to do with michael jackson selling more tickets than he did maybe prince is pissed abt it....maybe lm wrong...

but l want to knw why we have to pay twice the price dont make any sense to me

am still thinking whether l shud buy or not...

piccolo7 said:

The price is actually £33.29 including VAT, but that's still 4 times the US price!

piccolo7 said:

There is no Target outside of the USA, so we have to pay the normal price. It's that simple.

rwn said:

That's got nothing to do with it as Target's e-commerce business is run by Amazon.com so that blows that reason for the high price out of the water..

blacksweat said:

Eye thought the album had 30 tracks not 28.

lalalailoveu said:

Wow, long time no see!

PurpleRain747 said:

I guess From the Lotus and Back to the Lotus are counted as tracks elsewhere.

how can us in the u.k. get the albums on the 7th coz its a tuesday an we always get new releases on mondays.

alexandernevermind1999 said:

We aren't beyond the deflationphase yet, in the UK?
Yet we see inflation from Prince?

I released a single for charity in November, which had dealer price of £1.69. All retailers listed the single for £1.99 or £2.49, with the exception of Amazon, who had it up for £4.99. So it is they who are making the margin here, not Prince. Prince should have thought about the rest of the world though, because we don't have an alternative way of buying the CDs.

Pharaoh4TheMuse said:

Your a good person.... I dont think it can help me but woulda been nice

LondonStyle said:

Oh well good to see the Pirates still at work on the 7 sea's.....
http://music.shop.ebay.co...acat=11233

Well if Prince is only offering download on his site, I'm not buying. I won't pay for downloads PERIOD!

But if he is shipping physical discs to europe at a similar price to the USA + P&P then I'm in!

toe said:

If this is an import - as I suspect it will be - then this price is soley down to Amazon.co.uk cashing in.

I'd be VERY surprised if P has anything to do with this price at all.

wow.

i really hope thats a mistake.

also, as someone else said, prince aint the one pricing this.

and why on earth would this be because of MJ! lol absolutely mental thinking.

well, 33quid is too much, im not paying it, i will import it.

15 copies will be sold in europe lol

growbotham said:

ah yes, didn't think like that. good points.

i think your right.

£33 on amazon is the projected dollar sterling conversion at 7th april, which is the start of the new fiscal year. if you thought 08/09 was bad, just wait till 09/10 starts

it's a combination of america having obama as president, whereas we get brown. even america got to pick it's own president this time around

give it a couple of weeks and it will be reduced down in the amazon sale by 90% as prince will probably have done a deal to give it away free with heat magazine when jade pops her clogs, and they'll be handing copies to everyone going to the o2 to see michael jackass, that's if he doesn't get locked away before july and bothers to turn up. he'll probably dress up bubbles and teach him to moonwalk and lipsynch and no-one will notice the difference

alexandernevermind1999 said:

"Clockin' the Jizz"

Order it from an Amazon Marketplace seller based in the US who's bound to have it through amazon.co.uk. You'll only pay £1.21 shipping.

sisterfate76 said:

lmao

Here is the import:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/L...568&sr=8-4

mypancakeplaces said:

Label: Warners

so im confused, if this is the import...its cheaper then the actual uk release!

i think its almost certain that the actual uk version price is just a little mishap