Les_the_Sarge_9_1
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And there is one other option available, friends on the opposite side of the water :). Or in some cases border.
Sending commercial mail is seldom easy I guess. What is common in one country might not be common in another.
I have to date only experienced confused frustration or lack of experience when dealing with persons living in Europe.
I for instance have sent simple cds containing lots of commonly downloadable free files to persons in foreign locations. The most significant being the Steel Panthers core program (at several hundred megs that a large file for people not lucky to have a broadband connection).
Here in Canada, it is as easy as buying a Postal Money order to send money to some distant location. A Postal Money order is genuine cash, but it is not actual currency. It is trackable secure and reliable. A person in the US has much the same ease of sending funds. You smply go to the post office and state you want a specific indivdual sent X dollars.
But this appears to be either not common in Europe, or some European countries are just not capable of it. It is also possible Europeans don't casually understand the value of doing this perhaps.
Different countries requiring differing solutions.
Matrix games though hasn't exactly been on the scene for the last 20 years though. So they are not able to say they have perfected getting their product to every spot on the globe 100%. But that is sure changing fast.
In 2002 you would have been lucky to see a Matrix Games product sitting on anyone's shelf let alone foreign ones.
By 2005 who knows, they might be a well recognised game name even in countries that seem distant.
But all this takes time.
Getting back to the friends comment though. If you can't get satisfaction with a local operation, then it is time to sit and contemplate unusual methods.
Always makes me chuckle that I seem to be posting this over and over. I have bought three items from online sources between 2002 and 2003. I bought all three of them through remote assistance. They were ordered through an online friend living in the US.
My cost to get the item, same cost to a US citizen plus 2 bucks.
It was not the costs that some are being frustrated over.
I incur currency differences of course 29.95 US is not 29.95 Canadian after all. But I have yet to pay for exotic shipping into Canada no customs, no additional expenses at all. I have only had to pay the cost to have a friend mail the item as personal mail from them to me.
In Canada and the US, a computer game (a cd in a jewel case) is not worth more than 5 bucks airmail even including the cost to purchase a cd mailer envelope.
That's of course a cd and jewel case only. Explains why a person has to be a bit fussy to want a manual that is not going to be read cover to cover like a novel, and likely will be consulted only a few times before being sent where all your other manulas were sent.
If you can't get a game into country X for a sane price, its time to make a good close friend at a place close to the source me thinks.
Of course so many wargamers are people that don't socialise well it seems :)
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