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    Will you still receive money for the sale if I buy your Practical Programming for Strength Training and DVD from Amazon?

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    Of course. We don't donate books to Amazon. But our customer service is better.

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    I ordered from amazon only because of my prime membership. I also bought practical programming on kindle. I wouldn't reccomend that there are just some books where your better off owning the hard copy.

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    I agree about the customer service being better. When I ordered books from aasgard I got free shippnig and they were to me in three days. The same day I ordered some stuff from amazon and there free shipping took eight days (the product wasn't even shipped for four days.

    Kudos to Aasgard !

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyc View Post
    I agree about the customer service being better. When I ordered books from aasgard I got free shippnig and they were to me in three days. The same day I ordered some stuff from amazon and there free shipping took eight days (the product wasn't even shipped for four days.

    Kudos to Aasgard !
    Good to know. I bought the triple pack (SS, PPST2, and DVD) off Amazon. It took a while for them to be shipped. When SS 3rd edition (or some other cool books) comes out, I will be sure to order directly from the source.

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    I got antsy when my video (ordered from Amazon) hadn't got to me in 2 weeks so I logged a complaint to Amazon. I ended up getting one in about 2 days after that. I'm assuming my complaint got to Aasgaard and you guys shipped it. Then I got the one from Amazon too.

    This is a confession, I still owe you 20 bucks plus interest.

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    Wrong guesses, Colo. We have absolutely nothing to do with Amazon's shipping as we only sell directly to Amazon and not through them.

    They have warehouses distributed over the country which means that their delivery times are in general lower than they predict and lower (on average) than single point retailers for a given type of shipping. My guess is that those whose things took a while chose the "super saver" option. The trade off for that particular free shipping option is that your order is low priority. For Amazon, this means after the shipping paid and Prime orders. If you buy any significant number of things actually sold/handled by Amazon on Amazon, Prime's the way to go.

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    So Aasgaard thugs aren't on their way to collect from me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bigwiggle View Post
    I ordered from amazon only because of my prime membership. I also bought practical programming on kindle. I wouldn't reccomend that there are just some books where your better off owning the hard copy.
    PPfST is a great purchase on the Kindle - In particular, I use the example TM program at the back of the book, to calculate my volume/light lifts, based on what my PRs will be that friday. After doing my warmup sets, I switch my iPhone from GymBuddy (great way to track your sets) over to Kindle, see what percentage of my 5RM my Press, Squat, and Bench should be, and then program accordingly for that day.

    I'd be prepared to say that PPfST is, of the 70-80 books or so on my Kindle, the most read book on my iPhone. I can't wait for SS to come out on a Kindle. Except for Jim Wendler's 5-3-1, I haven't purchased a paper book in 2+ years, and don't plan on doing so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ghshephard View Post
    PPfST is a great purchase on the Kindle - In particular, I use the example TM program at the back of the book, to calculate my volume/light lifts, based on what my PRs will be that friday. After doing my warmup sets, I switch my iPhone from GymBuddy (great way to track your sets) over to Kindle, see what percentage of my 5RM my Press, Squat, and Bench should be, and then program accordingly for that day.

    I'd be prepared to say that PPfST is, of the 70-80 books or so on my Kindle, the most read book on my iPhone. I can't wait for SS to come out on a Kindle. Except for Jim Wendler's 5-3-1, I haven't purchased a paper book in 2+ years, and don't plan on doing so.
    I have to say that the last sentence was somewhat unexpected, given that 5/3/1 isn't even available on elitefts in paper. I had to buy mine on Amazon.

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