Gail On Tech

Cheap books, DVDs, movies, games and music

This week I have a family birthday and I knew exactly what I was going to buy: a book. Not just any old book mind you; a specialist numismatics book, in fact. So imagine my disappointment when I made the trek into my favourite coin store in Sydney to find that, although it had the book in question in the store, it was just for use by the staff for reference purposes and it didn’t stock it for sale. Bugger!

Thank God for the Internet! After a quick search of my favourite book bargain finder, Booko.com.au, I headed to the Fishpond.com.au site and picked up a copy for around half the price I would have paid in a regular bookstore.

So, if you’re looking for bargain-priced books — or DVDs, movies, games or music, for that matter — you really need to check out the Fishpond site.

You’ll find nearly 2.5 million book titles, over 200,000 CDs and almost 30,000 DVDs for sale on the Fishpond.com.au site, which you can search for by keyword or filter by format, age range, price and more. You can even sell your own used books on the site and get cash rewards for reviews.

If you find items you like but don’t want to purchase just yet, you can create a wishlist and you can view the wishlists of friends registered on the site if you want to know what you can buy them. There are also gift vouchers available for hard-to-buy-for friends and family — you can have a paper voucher courier delivered or you can have one emailed or sent to a mobile phone.

And if a ripper bargain isn’t enough motivation, if you spend over $49 in one sitting — and let’s face it, that’s not hard when it comes to book, movies and the like — you get free shipping, so it’s worth saving up your purchases to combine them so you qualify for this bonus.

With Christmas just around the corner, you’ll want to add this site to your browsers’s favourites .

Fishpond.com.au