Aaron Brown's new book "The Poker Face of Wall Street" had been getting good reviews on Amazon amongst others

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471770574/qid=1146592674/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/026-5480746-2507658

http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=34004

so I thought I would place an order. When I ordered it the book was priced at £14.11, so in order to qualify for free shipping I ordered some rechargeable batteries

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00064A0TG/qid=1146592868/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-5480746-2507658

They were priced at £4.79. However, what I didn't realise until checkout was that they were from a third party so would not qualify for the free postage. I didn't have time to go through the process again so completed the order.

The batteries hadn't turned up until this morning so I checked the order - the postage on the batteries alone was £4.50 (for 4 triple A batteries!!). After further investigation I found Amazon selling them for £5.82 - this would have qualified for free shipping. If I were Amazon I would rate prices with P&P included.

To further annoy me, the above book's price was slashed in half - I hope it's a good read!!