Blood & Rhetoric

that which enrages me can only make me stronger

Writing by Jana on Monday, 2 of June , 2008 at 8:43 am

I started an Adobe Illustrator course last week and I’m really enjoying it.

Illustrator rocks, despite that steep learning curve which also makes it incredibly frustrating — I’m looking at you, blasted PEN tool, bane of my current Illustrator existence.

But I digress.

I went to Indigo Chapters over the weekend to browse through their Adobe books and purchase the Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3 

Real World Adobe Illustrator by Mordy Golding

Indigo Chapters or Chapters Indigo, or whateverthehell it calls itself post-merger is Canada’s answer to Borders or Barnes & Noble. It even contains that certain requisite sense of giant corporate bookstore evilness with its often-controversial and censorship-happy founder,  Heather Reisman.

I vaguely remembered the price online being about $30 for this book. However, in-store it’s listed as $44.99. WTF? I look at another Illustrator guide that had looked promising online. Same weird price difference it would seem.

Am I mistaken? Was I really looking at the price for the previous CS2 version? Do I care enough to ask an employee about this potential discrepancy because I REALLY have to pee BADLY?!

I left, went online, and was right!

The Indigo Chapters/Chapters Indigo website lists the book at $32.33 or $30.71 for iRewards Members. Amazon.ca lists it at $30.86.

I go back to the Chapters-Indigo website to look at it yet again, and I see that the cheaper price is listed as the “Online Price.” Now, I don’t know if this in-store and on-line price difference is standard industry practice, and I’m naive, but whether it is or is not, it’s BULLSHIT business practise. A $16 difference is not acceptable to me and I find it  deplorable that they would gouge their customers in this manner.

So you know what Indigo Chapters? You can go fuck yourself up the ass via an unlubed dildo because I am simply not purchasing from you again. It’s Amazon again for this girl. They may be EeeeeEEEVVvvIIIIIiiiILLLLllllll!!!! but I guess my dollar is my bottom line because I don’t have enough of it to throw away to you.

P.S. Fuck you. Seriously.

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