aspqrz02
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IF there WERE licensing restrictions and, despite what you claim to be able to infer, there are currently NO actual statements saying so, that mandated producing hardbound books for each copy of the game to be sold, I would be amazed and astounded, not to mention completely flabbergasted, to find that said licensing restrictions DEMANDED that the purchaser ave no choice but to accept shipping of the physical copies. What a sensible company would do, if, indeed, they are required by contract to produce physical manuals and include them in the sale price, would be, in this case, given the large number of potential customers who are turned off by the huge shipping and customs imposts, to allow them to pay for the whole thing, including the printed manuals, and then choose 'no shipping' on the understanding that the disks and books would then be destroyed in the warehouse. You could even charge a nominal fee - say the $9 that shipping inside the US seems to be - to cover the cost of destruction of the books/disks and you'd get many people happy to save $50+ on shipping and ghu knows how much additional for customs etc. That would seem to cover all bases ... if not, you could use my other suggestion from another locked thread and get the same effect. I mean, lets get real, there's no way they can force you not to send a parcel to any address you please, is there? The lame and completely ridiculous excuses (no, I don't accept that they're 'justifications') that they have given show they really don't get it. So, as we say in Oz, don't encourage the b******s Phil
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