Packt publishing ebook offer

[administrator]

Should post in technical but thought more people might see it here over Xmas. Packt publishing offering ebooks for £3 +VAT each when you buy more two or more.
Seasonal eBook Offer - Buy 2 or more $5 each | Packt Publishing

This is 70-80% off most of the ones I have just bought. Or would do if their site wasn't being such a dog

[realityhack]

Their site is a bitch, but thanks, bought a few for peanuts.

[administrator]

Their site is a bitch, but thanks, bought a few for peanuts.

Ay, not a good advertisement for their web books as they can't seem to get their own site working Managed to spend £50 somehow

[administrator]

Just bumping this as the offer closes today. Considering the hard-copy books sell for £20-40 then £3 for the PDF / ebook is pretty good value. You can also send the ebook to your kindle once you set it properly

[NickFitz]

Hmm, they seem to have made a mistake with my order

I added three ebooks to my cart, and it showed the subtotal as £9, plus £1.80 VAT, making a grand total of £10.80. All correct, thought I, and went to checkout.

Then I elected to pay via PayPal, and the system only sent the subtotal through to PayPal's payments system, meaning I didn't pay the VAT

Now downloading my files before they realise…

[d000hg]

Isn't that normal NF, to avoid VAT going all the way round the houses?

Regarding Kindle, they list Kindle as an option for the books I bought - I have PDF, mobi & kindle as well as a "send to kindle" link but they sell these titles as Kindle books when I was checking their reviews on Amazon, so possibly this is title-specific?

And yes the site is shocking... the front-end is fine but I got 502/503 errors, page load timeouts, etc. The one on the final stage of payment was especially annoying - do I hit F5 or not - but everything appears to be OK if I can just get to download the files!

[NotAllThere]

Offer ends today, in fact. So still time to fill your eboots.