Where to buy 卫斯理 (Detective Wesley) books in Singapore?

[tamarind]

Hi Pen88n,

Personally I will not spend that much on a taobao seller unless the seller has many good customer reviews, otherwise it is risky. Can you share the link ?

Pen88n:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"markfch\"]You know, I've never read a Chinese book outside of text in my entire life ...... until I became a dad and found out that I've to teach my son Chinese. Never in my life would I expect that one day I'll order a stack of Chinese novels for my reading pleasure & in order to improve my language skill.

:salute: to markfch.

The series of book are interesting and I just check my collection and realize that we have purchased total 24 books from local as well as dangdang during the this year book fair as well as from dangdang.

24 books? That is nearly the entire set - 30 books. I am still contemplating should I just buy the 30 books set, or should I start with just the 10 books 1st set, then continue to buy the 2nd and 3rd set. Very tempting to buy the entire 30 books set (price is about $70+ exclude courier charges) but DH will no doubt nag about it again.[/quote]

[Pen88n]

tamarind:

Hi Pen88n,

Personally I will not spend that much on a taobao seller unless the seller has many good customer reviews, otherwise it is risky. Can you share the link ?

Pen88n:

24 books? That is nearly the entire set - 30 books. I am still contemplating should I just buy the 30 books set, or should I start with just the 10 books 1st set, then continue to buy the 2nd and 3rd set. Very tempting to buy the entire 30 books set (price is about $70+ exclude courier charges) but DH will no doubt nag about it again.

Tamarind,
I've not bought the 30 books set yet. I'm now looking at the 1st set of 10 books only. Probably will get the 2nd and 3rd set if DS is really interested. For myself, I'm ok with reading the traditional Chinese version fron NLB.

If you are interested, here is the link for the 30 books set:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10198994929

[corneyAmber]

I don’t plan to buy the whole series cos no place to store them…but if anyone buying I don’t mind sharing half, 1/4 etc…and can still read the books and get to keep 1/4, 1/2 etc…of the books. I have read some and don’t mind re-reading.

[Pen88n]

Brenda10:

Pen88n:

[quote=\"Brenda10\"]

:salute: to markfch.

The series of book are interesting and I just check my collection and realize that we have purchased total 24 books from local as well as dangdang during the this year book fair as well as from dangdang.

24 books? That is nearly the entire set - 30 books. I am still contemplating should I just buy the 30 books set, or should I start with just the 10 books 1st set, then continue to buy the 2nd and 3rd set. Very tempting to buy the entire 30 books set (price is about $70+ exclude courier charges) but DH will no doubt nag about it again.

Thank you for your information as I'm not aware that the entire set is 30 books.

I get the 1st book 老猫 for DD to try and she loves it so I slowly get in the rest.

The price that you quoted is very attractive and is impossible to pay this amount if buy from the local.[/quote]Brenda,
The 10 books set works out to be <$30 without courier charges. Adding in the charges, I would expect to pay ~$4-$5 per book, which is still less than what I would have to pay if bought locally.

Everytime I get online to start buying from Dangdang (previously), everything looks so attractive and will end up burning a hole in my pocket again.

This round considered as their Christmas presents :evil:

[tamarind]

Hi Pen88n,

OK.

To others who are keen to buy from taobao,
That page belongs to an individual seller, not a company. Personally I feel it is safer to buy from big bookshops like this :
http://winshare.tmall.com/shop/view_shop.htm?prc=1

[Brenda10]

Pen88n:

Brenda10:

[quote=\"Pen88n\"]24 books? That is nearly the entire set - 30 books. I am still contemplating should I just buy the 30 books set, or should I start with just the 10 books 1st set, then continue to buy the 2nd and 3rd set. Very tempting to buy the entire 30 books set (price is about $70+ exclude courier charges) but DH will no doubt nag about it again.

Thank you for your information as I'm not aware that the entire set is 30 books.

I get the 1st book 老猫 for DD to try and she loves it so I slowly get in the rest.

The price that you quoted is very attractive and is impossible to pay this amount if buy from the local.

Brenda,
The 10 books set works out to be <$30 without courier charges. Adding in the charges, I would expect to pay ~$4-$5 per book, which is still less than what I would have to pay if bought locally.

Everytime I get online to start buying from Dangdang (previously), everything looks so attractive and will end up burning a hole in my pocket again.

This round considered as their Christmas presents :evil: [/quote]Hi Pen88n,

Yes, if you get it from local, the price is various from $8.15 to $10.69 before 10% or 20% discount (with membership). Therefore the price is still worth it.

True, all these books (EL or CL) really burning a big hole in my pocket since we have started to buy them for DD.

Our collections also include a lot of DVD too! :moneyflies:


The only return is hopefully they gain a lot from all these investment!

[markfch]

tamarind:

Hi markch,

How I wish my hubby is like you. There is no way he will read Chinese novels on his own to improve his Chinese. He would rather read the English version of the original 西游记.

If my dw is as good as you in teaching languages, you can be sure I'll shake leg, drink coffee and hum my favourite tune all day long. Let the expert (you) do the job lah, haha.

I suspect that my dw is very relaxed because she knows that I'm very on-the-ball kind. Smart girl.

Brenda10:

寻梦 is one of the wonderful novels that I still like to read even after several years.

Ok, I go buy this 寻梦 to test water first. Thanks for the recommendation.

[BlurBee]

Brenda10:

Hi Pen88n,

Yes, if you get it from local, the price is various from $8.15 to $10.69 before 10% or 20% discount (with membership). Therefore the price is still worth it.

True, all these books (EL or CL) really burning a big hole in my pocket since we have started to buy them for DD.

Our collections also include a lot of DVD too! :moneyflies:


The only return is hopefully they gain a lot from all these investment!

:shock: Din know the books now cost so much. When I was teen, the book cost $3-$5.

[Brenda10]

BlurBee:

Brenda10:

Hi Pen88n,

Yes, if you get it from local, the price is various from $8.15 to $10.69 before 10% or 20% discount (with membership). Therefore the price is still worth it.

True, all these books (EL or CL) really burning a big hole in my pocket since we have started to buy them for DD.

Our collections also include a lot of DVD too! :moneyflies:


The only return is hopefully they gain a lot from all these investment!

:shock: Din know the books now cost so much. When I was teen, the book
cost $3-$5.

Yes, you're right. The price sticker $3.90 was still on those version (繁休字）that I had bought many many years ago. :sad:

[Atan]

During those days, we were too poor to buy books. I think the wisely books that I read fm Upper Pr to Sec sch were either borrowed fm friends or the sec sch library. At that time, my sec sch had the whole series . I will seriously consider buying the whole set to read again when I find the time.