World Wide Purchasing & Distribution

[Skoshi Tiger]

It is very frustrating. I really want to show my support for Oleg and Co by pre-ordering the Collectors edition, but can't.

I ended up buying ROF from ebay from over seas and it arrived a week or so before it got in the stores over here in WA. If Ubi can't get it's act into gear I may have to do the same for Bob!

Cheers!

[Screamadelica]

Ahh, that familiar feeling as the rough end of the pineapple is applied. Still hoping for something special from EB. Must have that boxed set!

[Wolf_Rider]

with pricing "starting at $89.99", I'm wondering what the collectors edition will cost though

[Screamadelica]

Looks like it will be fairly expensive. The Shogun 2 Total War Deluxe Set is coming in at $169 AUD, hopefully it won't be as much as that. Why are we charged so much especially with the Australian dollar being almost equal to the US dollar?

[Wolf_Rider]

yeah, but ya get a chess set with that one

duno about the pricing structure, some vga are marked up a huge amount... it can't cost $200 ea to ship a card out in bulk

[julian265]

I like to get simple games through steam, but given the way updates have worked with IL2 and RoF I'd prefer to be able to choose when to apply any updates, and keep different versions on disk, which will hopefully be possible with CoD.

Looks like I'll have to pay the margin's of several useless middle-men again...

[Wolf_Rider]

Still no pre-order listing @ EB

A good place to buy online is www.ozgameshop.com , Alot of new titles that are $100 or there abouts here are $50-60 on that site , shipping is also FREE and it comes from the UK which is pretty good.

Pretty much you save atleast %30. It's worth a look.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Screamadelica

Looks like it will be fairly expensive. The Shogun 2 Total War Deluxe Set is coming in at $169 AUD, hopefully it won't be as much as that. Why are we charged so much especially with the Australian dollar being almost equal to the US dollar?

Exchange rates are not necessarily related to retail prices.

I used to work for Harvey Norman Electrical in NSW back in the 90's.

We were importing electrical goods in Yen -- against which the Aussie dollar was rising, so we were getting them cheaper than ever.

However the Aussie dollar was falling against the US dollar -- so we were able to put all our prices on electrical goods UP by 10% (even though we were importing them cheaper) and blamed the government and the "bad Aussie dollar" for the price hike.

We made a fortune for a while.

[Screamadelica]

Ahh, so that's how it works. I'm guessing at the boxed set selling for around $129 AUD, or I'll eat Feuerfalke's shorts if Tree hasn't already digested them. I like the idea of bombarding the retailers with phone calls until we get some information. Will put in a call tomorrow.