World Wide Purchasing & Distribution

[swiss]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Our retailers recently had the hide to also try and get local taxes added to international online purchases... If you cant compete in a global economy in retail with the advent of online sales its time for some of these people to think about a new vocation in life!

Have you ever run a business which has to compete with a huge online market?
Having a warehouse in the middle of nowhere and running a homepage has quite a different cost structure compared to a local shop with employees in the business district of your town.
You can never - ever compete with online prices.
Your local software shop's prices have to be higher than than the ones of the eshops, and you have find a way to justify them; service f.i..
How many computer shops with a real world shop where in your area 10years ago, how many today?

Sure trying to tax esales is cheap(and wrong), still you have to understand their position - in the end the consumer loses too, as there won't be any local shops left.


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Sprache Deutsch (language German)

That's why I wondered if they really press two versions.
Most games sold over here are multi language(they just dont mention the language option on the cover).

Originally Posted by ghodan

Then reading about bol.ch already having it for pre-order i have send a email to the customer service of bol.com and got this reply:

Wow - the swiss replied in Dutch?

[drewpee]

Apology's to all for my ranting. I have upped my medication and should be rite. Ok where were we. Thats rite, I'll have a hard copy thanks.

[ghodan]

Originally Posted by swiss

Wow - the swiss replied in Dutch?

uuuh no. www.bol.com is their Dutch site.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by ghodan

uuuh no. www.bol.com is their Dutch site.

Ok - I see.
An international eshop with a swiss spin-off domain, you dont see that very often.
Thx.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by swiss

Have you ever run a business which has to compete with a huge online market?
Having a warehouse in the middle of nowhere and running a homepage has quite a different cost structure compared to a local shop with employees in the business district of your town.
You can never - ever compete with online prices.
Your local software shop's prices have to be higher than than the ones of the eshops, and you have find a way to justify them; service f.i..
How many computer shops with a real world shop where in your area 10years ago, how many today?

Sure trying to tax esales is cheap(and wrong), still you have to understand their position - in the end the consumer loses too, as there won't be any local shops left.

Swiss, Its an Australian joke. They were refering to the Harvey Normans franchise which over here is quite big and they are very aggressive with their sales and have driven alot of little retail shops out of busness capturing a large market share, they are perceived as being very profit driven and service is one of those points that they could improve on. Mr Norman is now the one crying out that he can't compete even though they use a lot of off shore warehousing etc to reduce costs and minimise tax and payroll expenses.

Cheers!

[gonk]

here is another site to check out... http://www.puolenkuunpelit.com/kaupp...n&currency=EUR


I have not tried it yet...so don't blame me...

Still looking for one that is A... in english.. and B... take Paypal... C.... Ships to Australia

[Screamadelica]

Just had a reply from Finland. Their customer service has said that the Collectors Boxed set they are advertising is an English version. I asked them specifically about the manual and map, so hopefully this is the right version for us. They say the game is for the Australian region on their add. They also have an Australian page for the website , so no translation problems there. The Collectors set, including postage is only a few dollars more than the Australian download price! And Gonk, they take Paypal. The address of this wonderful website is boostep.com. Are they any good? Have no idea, but worth a look.

[Screamadelica]

P.S Make sure you leave just one copy for me to order too, thanks!

[gonk]

RGR... thx

[pupo162]

Any poruguese managed to get a track on the game??

i found 0, the nearest go i found was "aeroteca" in Madrid.


cheers