I've arrived!

[andrewducker]

A couple of days ago I received this email:

Dear Andrew,

My name is Lucy and I am the webmaster of the book price comparison site: BooksPrice.com . Recently we released a new redesigned site and we thought it might be interesting to you:

Booksprice.com is a free service of finding the best price on books among the major online stores. Our real time price comparison can help you save as much as 60% from the retail price. At BooksPrice you can look for the cheapest price on new & used books, and also compare the price on a purchase of several books together.

I will appreciate if you can post a comment on your blog "May Contain Nuts" about our service, to inform your readers about this useful and free service.

We appreciate the effort and time that is involved in our request, and would like to thank you with a small gift in return.
Please choose between the (already) classic "The Time Traveler's Wife" or one of the books from the Price Nobel Winner Orhan Pamuk: "Snow" or "My Name is Red", and we will be glad to send it to you. Just reply to this e- mail with your chosen book and your shipping address and we will send the book to you.(Don't forget to write us your feedbacks, too).

This offer is not connected to posting our site on your blog but we will be very happy if you will write about us!

I hope that you find the service interesting. If you have any queries or you'd like more information, kindly contact me.

Sincerely,

Lucy Orbach
Webmaster
www.booksprice.com
428 E 83rd St. #2F NY, NY 10028

Huzzah! People are offering me bribes to write about them!

Needless to say, book pricing sites aren't my area of expertise, I live 3000 miles away from New York, and I don't approve of bribery. But should you wish to wander over and take a look, or knock them forever from your list of companies you're willing to use, you can now make an informed decision on your own time.

Comments

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose you could see it as a bribe if you were so inclined, but you could also see it as payment for services rendered. Either way, Yay free book!

[andrewducker]

A bribe _is_ payment for services rendered.

It's merely an immoral one - as they clearly wouldn't expect me to say "Go use this site - they're paying me to say that!"

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Then it all comes down to whether you'd consider this to be immoral, which is a matter of opinion.

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

"the Price Nobel winner"? Oh dear.

[momlady.livejournal.com]

I've received 2 such messages several weeks ago. One I did link to because I write about quite often. The other one, however, I did not link to because it came from out of "nowhere" and wasn't a subject I was interested in. However, neither one "offered" anything. In any case, I consider it spam.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Ooh, blatant spam. Given that they'll send you books whether you blog about them or not, you may as well take them up on it.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Hmn. I envy you. I think. Well done at any rate :).