john g
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Joined: 10/6/2000 From: college station, tx usa Status: offline
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Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1: Apologies for the redundant message.
I responded to the post that started me thinking this, but wanted it to get a bit of light by putting it in its own thread (not that that will make a difference, but hope you foreign guys appreciate my trying to solve you difficulties).
I still say the best way to get a Mega Campaign to some place like Europe has to be locating a reliable friend in the US step two mail them the money (yes just mail the the dang money).
step three the friend buys the cd for nothing more than it really should cost anyone in the civilised world.
step four he merely puts it in ordinary mail, yes ordinary mail, nothing fancy, a bubble envelope and a piece of card board shipped airmail.
With conversion to US funds, Matrix shipping costs to friend, friends cost to mail to person wanting cd, I refuse to believe this will exceed half the cost it appears to be for fans in Europe. Its insane to do it otherwise.
I have thought about it. I have sent music to a girl I know in the US. I never ask for anything. I just like to be nice. I can garantee you if I plan on buying Mega Campaign, and I likely will, I am not planning on letting any insanity ruin my purchase. I happen to know she can buy it for the civilised price of what it costs a US citizen and then no more than a couple of bucks for re routing through mail to me. And since I am nice she will likely not even ask for the mail cost to me. I might as well be living in the US effectively.
Why isnt anyone thinking of these sort of strategies (or is this why my friends routinely lose to me hehehe, I think outside of the box).
There are a few problems with this approach, if you plan to actually send currency through the mail, you might be interested in the experiance ham radio operators have.
When trying to get a confirmation of contact card from a foreign country, the preferred method of helping out is sending international reply coupons to defray the cost of postage. If the ham on the other end thinks that isn't enough, often the only way to get the card is to send what we call green stamps (dollar bills). In quite a few countries those never make it, postal workers will pilfer envelopes that appear to have money in them.
When I was living in South Korea, we were warned not to bother subsribing to anything like Playboy, they would never make it past the APO workers who would take anything they wanted home.
In these days of increasing computer use, don't be surprised if cd mailers get filched from the mail, that postman might have a computer at home needing free software.
Anything you want this much I wouldn't trust to an insecure method like normal post. Unless your friend can copy it off and send you several copies over several days in the hope that one might make it thru.
Not to mention what happens when your friendly customs agents show up, wondering why you are not paying import tariffs on products you are importing.
Someone also has to foot the bill for the currency exchange unless you have a source of dollars you could mail back to the US.
If you want to smuggle disks into your country, why not make friends with an airline flight attendant and have them carry it back with them when they work a flight from the US.
I thought about doing that when I was collecting miniatures and was buying them from Games Workshop in the UK, if you think you have to pay a lot for shipping cds just try shipping lead. thanks, John.
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