Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]blooper notice the 12 in the title.sorry for wasting bandwith On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:34 AM, simon jessurun <simon.apekop@gmail.com>wrote: > Wow that book looks nice!is my daughter in there to? > Could not order it yet . > Slight problem with my wife''s manolos and the credit crisis. > Sorry for the ignorance I'm a bit over stressed lately. > thx for letting me know > simon > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Geoff Hopkinson > <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>wrote: > >> Brian, thanks for looking and commenting. We have now had more than 1000 >> people preview the book. I wrote to Blurb on the Premium saga. They insist >> that the order system does NOT take into account the country of order and >> the Premium option is available everywhere. That was Blurb Europe that >> responded. My first order has left from USA. Last Yearbook came from >> Switzerland. I can only assume now that maybe the various web servers >> world >> wide have yet to catch up on the ordering pages?? >> Its frustrating to deal with what seems to be clunkiness on Blurb's part >> here. What should have been an extra opportunity for people has somehow >> turned into a distraction. Sigh. I can only say that I edited the book >> options today and what people SHOULD see is the softcover at USD 27.95 >> which >> buys them the premium paper version and no plain paper option. That is >> exactly what your screen shot displays. Thanks for posting that. If anyone >> still sees USD 24.95, then you should also see an option for Premium with >> it. That adds $3.00 >> >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ >> Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 12 Leica Users book is now available >> >> Whereas I DO get the premium paper option. >> >> I think I know what's going on. Blurb.com does not actually own any >> printing >> presses. They are a front-end broker to local printing companies around >> the >> world. Probably what's happening here is that Blurb knows where you are, >> and >> knows which printer is the one that's closest to you, and knows what that >> printer's capabilities are. If you live someplace whose nearest >> Blurb-contracted printer can do premium paper, then it will show up as an >> option. >> >> Here's a screen dump of what I see: >> http://reid.org/~brian/misc/12premium.png >> >> >> > Hoppy, >> > I hunted for the premium paper option - its available on 34 books, and >> > yours is not one of them. >> > Cheers >> > Jayanand >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >