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Old 07-23-2024, 06:06 PM   #1
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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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Not to mention that pretty much everything from the Big Five are exempt from the program, but eh.
Do you have a specific title that you can't get through their program?
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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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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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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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.
Can you redeem your point for Star Trek eBooks if you travel to India?
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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 )
I actually recently noticed in the latest VIP sale that there's 2-3 Trek books that were eligible for the sale and also redeemable, including that one. But most of them aren't.

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Can you redeem your point for Star Trek eBooks if you travel to India?
Not sure how I'd do that.
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