Just found this on my wish list:

Then there is a button that says Buy from PBS market.

It's on a few of my wishlisted books. Cool new stuff...must investigate!

Cheryl



Oh, cool, another fan of Dave Duncan!  I haven't yet read his Alchemist series, but I love the King's Blades and related stories!

Whoa.  Have you been to The Market???  This could be seriously dangerous!!

Oh, I'm glad they implemented that feature.

I wish I could see it--apparently none of my WL books are available in the market. Figures!

I only have 2 from my WL in the market, but I was happy to see how cheap the books were. I think it's a great new feature, especially if there is a WL book you're dying for. Does anyone know where the books come from that they're selling?

i was wondering the same thing, where do these books come from?

They are overstock books that PBS has made a contractual arangement to sell.

I'm wondering if the shipping is stacked or charged for individual book.

I went looking in the Club Communications to see if they'd sent the monthly newsletter, hoping for more info, but nothing there yet. I haven't looked at the market yet...haven't dared. LOL  So it's kind of like PBS meets Bookcloseouts.com or something. Cool beans!! I am not sure how much I'll use it, but it's great to have the option for some books.

ETA...went to look. It says there are 6700+ books in the PBS market, but I wonder how many are actually wishlisted. It looks like only 2 from my WL are there.

Cheryl

I ordered 3 trade size paperbacks. I paid $9.17 + 2 credits. The shipping was $4.46, total $ 13.61. Great deal! Thanks PBS!

The shipping if I ordered only 1 would have been $3.45, so for another $0.99 they shipped the other two. That works out to about $1.49 per book for the shipping.

Ok then they are stacking the shipping because the info on the market says they are using media mail to send them.

I hope the movie and music industry will be equally generous and help expand this feature to Swapadvd & swapacd as well.

I ordered and they are stacking the shipping.  This is such a great idea - I hope it will assist in getting some stalled WL books moving, too.

Does anyone know - can you pay with PBS money, and if your shelf is on hold, do just your auto-request books show up on there?  I have one WL book on there, and it's on AR.

I ordered 3 trade size paperbacks. I paid $9.17 + 2 credits. The shipping was $4.46, total $ 13.61. Great deal! Thanks PBS!

The shipping if I ordered only 1 would have been $3.45, so for another $0.99 they shipped the other two. That works out to about $1.49 per book for the shipping.

I see that they also charge a .50 transaction fee.  Is that per book or per order?

Is that per book or per order?

Per order, AFAIK.

It's per order.  They're pretty explicit about it when you go through the checkout process.

For people looking for more information on The Market, if you look way up in the right corner of you screen next to Logout you'll find a Whats New! link. There is a section added to that on The PBS Market.

I contacted them & asked - didn't see my questions addressed anywhere on there.  I can update with the response if anyone else wants to know those things as well...

As far as I know, PBS money can still only be used to purchase PBS Postage services.  There is talk about being able to use it for other services and goods in the Kiosk, but I don't think they've implemented any changes yet.

So, I think the answer to above question is No, you can't use PBS money in the PBS Market.

ETA:  I think any active WishListed book, on AutoRequest or not, would show up in the Market if available.  (Excepting WL books on hold; I don't think they would show up.)

It's per order.  They're pretty explicit about it when you go through the checkout process.

Well, that's very reasonable.  I just pretended to order one book so I could see what the postage would be.  I am happy to know that they combine postage unlike Amazon who charges a whopping 3.99 per book.  I wonder how they sell any paperback books these days, especially when they now have competition from the Book Depository whose prices are lower and who ships for free.  I got a new book from the Book Depository 5 days after I received the e-mail that it had been released and was on it's way.  That's pretty quick to make it across the pond.

and if your shelf is on hold, do just your auto-request books show up on there

Any of your Wish List books, regardless of Holds will show up there. I have one book on my WL that I placed on Hold because I ordered it from the Market in the testing phase and it shows in the list (it also shows that I have it on Hold).

I also tested the Vacation Hold. I put one on auto-request, one is on Hold, and I took the auto-request off of the other. All 3 books showed in the listing and I could see the status (Hold, Auto, Not) on all 3.

I am happy to know that they combine postage unlike Amazon who charges a whopping 3.99 per book

Really? I just purchased two books on Amazon and paid a little less than $5.00 for shipping. Shipping was definitely combined. Are you talking about books Amazon has in their warehouse or books from Amazon sellers?

But on topic, I'm excited about this new feature. I wish it saved the items in my cart though. I wasn't ready to purchase yet, and when I came back to my computer and opened PBS again my cart was empty. Other than that, I think it's a good feature, and I already saw quite a few books that were on my WL at one time, but were removed because I didn't think I'd ever get them.

The Amazon Marketplace (buying from third-party sellers) charges $3.99 per book. From Amazon itself, shipping is combined (there's a per order fee, and then an added amount for each additional book or other item). Then, they have the 4-for-3 deal on most mass market paperbacks and many other books (buy four and one of them is free), and free shipping if you spend $25 or more. So, I have no problem at all seeing how they sell books or other things in such large amounts. The fact they're a well-known and highly trusted site that has a huge selection doesn't hurt either. They aren't like the discount sites, where they may or may not have a book you're looking for, because they have pretty much anything in print (and quite a bit not in print).

So, I think you're confused Kate. Sorry.

In any case, what I actually popped in to say was that I have 3 books from my WL that are in the Market. They aren't titles I'm dying for though. So, now I have a decision to make. I LOVE the new feature though. It could be a HUGE help to making the WL move on some books.