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Kobo VIP Point calculation
aka: overthinking things again for no good reason
I'm trying to figure out exactly how it's calculated how many VIP points are needed to redeem a specific book. I went through my wishlist comparing prices and points. Each of these showed up at least twice: 19.99 - 10800 15.99 - 8400 12.99 - 7200 11.99 - 6400 10.99 - 5200 09.99 - 4800 08.99 - 4400 06.99 - 4000 05.99 - 3200 04.99 - 2800 03.99 - 2400 However, I also noticed there were quite a few outliers, where the number of points was either higher or lower than others. Not to mention that pretty much everything from the Big Five are exempt from the program, but eh. So - any insights on how this works? is it set by price? by publisher? |
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Because I never managed to find a book that I can't get with points from my local kobo store, so I wonder if they are applying some geo-restriction on that. |
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Today, 01:34 PM | #3 |
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Any of the Star Trek books from Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster). Thankfully they're cheap and I still get VIP points for buying them, I just can't redeem.
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Today, 01:42 PM | #4 |
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It's geo-based, I can use my points to buy them (ie: https://www.kobo.com/it/it/ebook/boogeymen-3 )
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Not sure how I'd do that. |
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