rogifan said:

These books aren't that expensive for hardcover. All but one are $35. I wish we could see inside to get a feel for what the content is like. Is it mostly a picture book? I still might order though I'm sure shipping will be crazy.

Well, I live in upstate NY, and I had two shipping options, both 3-business-days. They were both under $3. One was a "package", one was ...something else. I forget, but it might be the difference between a padded envelope and a box. I chose the latter and paid the $2+ for it. I bought three of the books (Fashion, Guitar & Bass, Museum Tour Book - I skipped the celebration book because it seems to be local only), and my total was about $96 & change.

You can calculate your shipping in your cart, too. I was surprised it was so cheap, but I should have mine by Wed or Thurs.

TrivialPursuit said:

so as a european customer i can't order these yet?

i just tried signing up and adding my home adress
but it won't let me select a country other than us,
canada or mexico.

anyone know if this is indeed the case?

rogifan said:

Ok they're using different shipping for the books then. I just pretended to order a $15 key chain and they wanted $12 for ups ground shipping.

Holy shit, seriously? That's ridiculous.

TrivialPursuit said:

IstenSzek said:

It's very sad indeed that whoever is running this shop is alienating all Prince fans across the world.

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Maybe I have it wrong and that all Prince fans only actually live in Minnesota?

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darkroman said:

It's very sad indeed that whoever is running this shop is alienating all Prince fans across the world.

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Maybe I have it wrong and that all Prince fans only actually live in Minnesota?

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Well that's a good bit of hyperbole.

rogifan said:

IstenSzek said:

so as a european customer i can't order these yet?

i just tried signing up and adding my home adress
but it won't let me select a country other than us,
canada or mexico.

anyone know if this is indeed the case?

I don't think they have overseas shipping options yet.

hmm, too bad

Agreed with everyone who is annoyed that these can't be shipped overseas. To much stuff we're missing out on or paying well over the odds because we can't buy direct.

tbokris said:

These are not the way to do a book on Prince. 4 x 100-130 pages for $35 each? Why didn't they make 1 decent book and charge $50-60? I doubt the quality of these books [Edited 4/16/17 0:16am]

I dunno, I kinda of like that they are in specialize volumes, it leads one to think they may add more in the future and also let people who may not be interested in fashion but yes on the guitars pick and choose to their interests

Then of course there's the rest of us that want it all

I'll be buying these after my trip (don't want to NOT be here/in town when they attempt to deliver).

I don't mind ordering an extra or two but I know that shipping overseas can be hefty from Canada so not sure if it's worthwhile to do that

lust said:

Got excited. Added all three books to cart and no shipping outside North America and Mexico. Very dissapointed. Flippin amateurs. If anyone wants to do a good deed and let me send the books to them to be sent on to me, I'd love you forever and Paypal you the shipping cost plus a little extra for your trouble.

I totally agree with you, Amazon keep doing this shit, only showing the Postage and Handling costs at the very end, when they have your card details and everything else, and the price is either ridiculous (More than the book itself) or they don't ship to New Zealand.

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Amazon need to stop this, and our Consumers Council are running a campaign to end "drip pricing" which is where advertisers do not show additional fees in their prices. Postage and Handling fees are notorious here in New Zealand, which might as well be Mars for the northern Hemsiphere. Even a poaperback I bought 2 years ago cost $12 for the book and about $35 for the shippage and handling.

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Concert and show tickets are notorious, as these are sold by "agencies" like Tickettek and Ticketmaster (Mostly faceless Australian corporations, who treat NZers like we are the colonial bull and wards and dependencets of them), who whack on additional levies, service fees, fees to print out tickets, even if you do it at home, and excessively high card fees.

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Shane had they said yes, 4 hardcover books from the US would have cost you at least $80 in their "Shipping" fees.

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Also annoyed here, virtually none of the new books about Prince are available yet and we only got afew memorial magazines all wildly overpriced.

not for sale outside the US??

then,


eBay is the only way for us european??

tbokris said:

Doozer said:

laytonian said:

lust said:

Got excited. Added all three books to cart and no shipping outside North America and Mexico. Very dissapointed. Flippin amateurs.

If anyone wants to do a good deed and let me send the books to them to be sent on to me, I'd love you forever and Paypal you the shipping cost plus a little extra for your trouble.

Doozer said:

lust said:

Got excited. Added all three books to cart and no shipping outside North America and Mexico. Very dissapointed. Flippin amateurs.

If anyone wants to do a good deed and let me send the books to them to be sent on to me, I'd love you forever and Paypal you the shipping cost plus a little extra for your trouble.

I'll be glad to help you with that. Orgnote me.

lust said:

Doozer said:

I'll be glad to help you with that. Orgnote me.

Thank you so much. That's very kind of you. However, I received an org note from a friend in Australia who advised that here in NZ and also in Australia, the postal service have a system where you register for a U.S address and it goes to their warehouse where they ship it to you and for much cheaper than most companies who DO ship here will charge. Wish I'd have known before I bought all the other books I've been ordering but for this one, it's perfect. Perhaps there's a similar service run by European postal services for others here.

That's great. The offer stands for anyone who wants to use my US address.