Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >