My sad story trying to buy the e-book "Looking for a challenge" from ibuk.pl

Revision en5, by nocriz, 2019-11-05 06:14:46

Hello, Codeforces!

A few days ago, the blog about the book "Looking for a challenge 2" was posted on Codeforces, I read a quarter of the book and found that the quality was really good. I talked with a few friends about the book and we decided to buy the popular book "Looking for a challenge 1", which should be good as well. At first we considered buying a paperback version, but it was quite expensive and I'm afraid that some problems may occur during the shipment from Poland to China.

After a few days I found the book "Looking for a challenge" was available as a e-book (pdf) on the website "http://ibuk.pl" for 66,50 zł, the cheapest I can find on the internet. Although I can't read Polish, I used Google translate to buy the book. After I purchased the book with a master card, I was able to download the pdf version of the book. With the excitement, I started to download the book. The internet speed was about 100 Kbyte per second, and the book was about 60MB. I thought that my Internet was too slow, so I changed the network connection a few times and refreshed. After that, I found that I reached the download limit, and was not able to download anymore.

So, the situation is that I spent 66,50 zł (about 17.5 US Dollars) for nothing, since I can't download anymore and I never finished downloading even once. I was really depressed since it is quite a large sum of money for me, and that I still don't have the book. I tried to e-mail the website (using google translate, of course). I figured that there may be Polish participants on Codeforces who knows about the website ibuk.pl or similar situations, so I posted this blog to ask for help. What should I do? Is it likely that the website will let me download again or send me the book? Who else can I contact in this situation?

I'm grateful for any of your help! Thank you!

UPD : I received the reply three days later and got the PDF now! Thanks everyone.

Tags looking for a challenge, book

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en5 English nocriz 2019-11-05 06:14:46 89 UPD
en4 English nocriz 2019-11-02 08:58:36 30 Tiny change: 'allenge 1". At first' -> 'allenge 1", which should be good as well. At first' (published)
en3 English nocriz 2019-11-02 08:55:24 186
en2 English nocriz 2019-11-02 08:51:47 944
en1 English nocriz 2019-11-02 08:44:05 788 Initial revision (saved to drafts)