Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of 
£7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.

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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

On 4 Sep, 15:58, Alan  wrote:
> Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of
> £7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.

That's very good. What is the cheapest you have seen the GBG for for
CAMRA members?

In message 
, 
Offramp  wrote
>On 4 Sep, 15:58, Alan  wrote:
>> Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of
>> £7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.
>
>That's very good. What is the cheapest you have seen the GBG for for
>CAMRA members?

The CAMRA members price is £10 + £2.50 p&p whereas the Amazon price is 
"free postage". As there is no such thing as free postage the Amazon 
price to non-members for the book is possibly closer to £6.

-- 
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

In article , Alan
 wrote:
> In message
> ,
> Offramp  wrote
> >On 4 Sep, 15:58, Alan  wrote:
> >> Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members
> >> of £7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.
> >
> >That's very good. What is the cheapest you have seen the GBG for
> >for CAMRA members?

> The CAMRA members price is £10 + £2.50 p&p whereas the Amazon price
> is "free postage". As there is no such thing as free postage the
> Amazon price to non-members for the book is possibly closer to £6.


BUt CAMRA do not make any profit on these - and they really need it
atm!

GBG is the biggest money maker they have.

-- 
Chris de Cordova (West Cumbria & Western Lakes) www.westcumbriacamra.org.uk
Whitehaven Beer Festival: 20th & 21st Nov 2009 (www.whitehavenbeerfestival.co.uk)
www.cumbrianbreweries.org.uk for good craic on our beers!

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.

In message , Chris 
 wrote

>BUt CAMRA do not make any profit on these - and they really need it
>atm!

If there is no profit in supplying the book to Amazon then there is 
absolutely no point in doing so. Every copy sold through Amazon is one 
less copy that could have been sold at a higher price by CAMRA. If no 
profit is being made from the Amazon sale then the price charged by 
CAMRA for each book it sells needs to be higher to maintain overall 
margin. CAMRA ultimately set the pricing policy at Amazon by supplying 
them in the first place.

Even if a larger print run resulted in cheaper books (per unit) it would 
still make no sense to dump them into the market if zero profit is being 
made.

I suspect there is insufficient demand for the guides at the listed 
price plus £2.50 p&p, or even with a  couple of quid knocked off the 
cover price, that is being charged by the parent organisation.

Even some of the traditional outlets may be less than profitable these 
days. Listening to a radio programme recently it appears that to sell 
via the well known High Street distributors not only has the publisher 
got to heavily discount the cover price but they have to pay for the 
shelf space if they want the book anywhere on view that encourages an 
impulse purchase, or even a considered purchase

CAMRA still maintain a silly price differential between members and 
non-members whereas in reality the Amazon deal under cuts even the 
cheapest  "double special"  ( order in advance and pay by direct debit) 
member pricing.  CAMRA web price for non-members £17.49, current Amazon 
price £7.99 (both incl postage)

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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

"Alan"  wrote in message 
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>
>
> Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of £7.99 
> for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.

Bought.  Thanks.

On 5 Sep, 11:49, "Musicrab"  wrote:
> "Alan"  wrote in message
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> news:V3F2RFCdsSoKFwzS@amac.f2s.com...
>
>
>
> > Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of £7.99
> > for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.
>
> Bought.  Thanks.

I might join you!

On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:48:40 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
 wrote:

>On 5 Sep, 11:49, "Musicrab"  wrote:
>> "Alan"  wrote in message
>>
>> news:V3F2RFCdsSoKFwzS@amac.f2s.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of =A3=
>7.99
>> > for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.
>>
>> Bought. Thanks.
>
>I might join you!



I already have done - I am awaiting delivery from Amazon at this very
moment!!!    8^)

Regards
  

KGB

Alan wrote:
> 
> 
> Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of 
> £7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.

Mine arrived this morning !  Not had one for a couple of years and so 
was surprised that this one seems like a monster tome - 888 pages !  I 
don't remember it being that size before.
--
JohnB

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:55:03 +0100, JohnB   
wrote:

> Alan wrote:
>>   Amazon are currently doing a special price for non-CAMRA members of  
>> £7.99 for the 2010 Good Beer Guide.
>
> Mine arrived this morning !  Not had one for a couple of years and so  
> was surprised that this one seems like a monster tome - 888 pages !  I  
> don't remember it being that size before.
> --
> JohnB

Mine's on it's way. It's all these new micro-brewers and their beers.

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