Ok.. this has to stop…

I was at books-a-million today and I was looking at the books I want to buy and read, and the books I want to read and not buy, and the books I want to buy and not read, but pretty much I was looking at the prices of the books and comparing them to other places, like Wal*Mart and Target for example.

So I see this sign 20% off Twilight.

Yes I have not read the book, I have waited for the movie to come out and my budget to allow me to watch the movie before I decided to read the book. Why you might ask? Let me tell you.

Because this is the rule of how things work, if you read the book before the move and it is a good book, the movie will suck, if you read a book based on the movie before the movie, the book will suck, if you watch the movie and then read the book that the movie was based on, you have a good shot of enjoying both.

So that is what I do.

Anyway, back to Twilight, so I see that it is 20% off WITH a membership discount card. So I walk up to the front desk and ask for the card, because my Pet Smart, my Food Town, Food World, PAW’s and all my other “We want to track your purchasing habits” cards were free, I expected this to be no different.

Now, I have to give the guy at the counter gold marks for really being a great salesman, but when I heard that I needed to pay 20 bucks for a discount card, I almost spit the over priced cup of black with two sugars coffee on his counter.

Now, every time I turn around I see brick and mortar book stores having “it hard” thanks to Amazon, but apparently they don’t have it “Hard enough” to give a discount card away for free to people that.. I don’t know.. want to buy books from them.

because lets be real, if I am going to fill out the forum for a discount card, I am going to buy a book with it, perhaps, a few, and “In the long run” does not mean squat when I only have 10 – 20 bucks to spend on books per pay check (if I am lucky), going home with a “Discount card” for next time, just does not cut it.

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So, now I am at home, no book, no discount card, and wondering who’s brilliant idea it was to charge people to be your customer.

I mean, Ok if you offred me something I could not get someplace else, sure, membership and all that jazz, specialy books, hard to find out of print stuff and I need to pay to be a member, ok, you got me.. but seriously… when you sell books… along with everyone else… I have no idea what they are thinking.

Anyway. That is my bit… and why I have not read Twilight yet.

When I get around to buying the book, I’ll give a review of it.

Thanks for reading.