Theages
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Joined: 2/16/2007 From: Austria Status: offline
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I live in Austria (Europe). In December 2014 I bought "War in the West" boxed version (EUR 81,99). The shipment cost was EUR 2,50. Today I checked, the price is EUR 93,99 and shipment is EUR 34,52 (!!). So the shipment cost ist the same as it is now for SC. 1 US-Dollar ≈ 0,94 Euro The shipment cost first implied to me, that they are shipping from the US (WitW came from within the European Union), which leads to the problem of import taxes, which are calculated from the product price and the shipping costs, which raises the total price by another at least 20%. BUT: My last purchase showed Matrixgames address in Great Britain. I looked on FedEx home page, what I would have to pay for a delivery from Matrixgames' address to mine. It showed EUR 47,20 (!!!!) for a 2kg package (~ EUR 39 for 1kg). So Matrixgames does charge less than the nominal fee. When checked how much the Austrian "POST" would charge for a shipment from Austria to Great Britain it only showed EUR 15,75 (cheapest with recipient signing. When I checked UPS it showed EUR 97,09. British Royal Mail would cost about EUR 20,00. I think the shipment cost is prohibitive. Sidenote: I also could not purchase the digital version, because my VISA did not work. It had worked 7 days ago on Matrixgames-store and did work today on the store of another vendor.
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