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- 8/29/2003 3:31:38 AM

Pawlock

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[QUOTE=Blunderbuss]Hmm. e.g. Korsun Pocket bought online. $49.99 + $8.95 (I think?) shipping. Total Price $59.94. Converted to �37.40, with several days delay for delivery.

Alternative. Fifteen minute drive to Metrocentre. �29.99 from GAME. Maybe trade in an old PS2 game (after blowing off the dust :D ). Get loyalty points on card. Ten day no-quibble refund policy, so if I don't like it, back it goes.

I really AM on a limited budget. If I want to buy something, I look around for the best deal. Besides, Matrix will still make a profit on the sale, regardless of where I buy it from.

Another thing. Before I found this (and Battlefront's) site, I hadn't really considered the notion of supporting an individual games publisher. This is a new concept for me to deal with.[/QUOTE]

Shoukd have tried Duchet games, �26.99 + �1.00p&p within UK.

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- 8/29/2003 5:21:36 AM

Hertston

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[QUOTE=Blunderbuss]Hmm. e.g. Korsun Pocket bought online. $49.99 + $8.95 (I think?) shipping. Total Price $58.94. Converted to �37.40, with several days delay for delivery.

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You forgot the import VAT (tax, to not EU folks) you will get stung for when it arrives - that's another tenner you will either get billed for later (courier) or have to pay before you get your package (post).

The Matrix distributors in the UK, Just-Play, provide a very good service IMHO, reasonable prices and release not long after that in the US. For once, the �30 price tag for KP compares very favourably.

Battlefront provide a reasonable service [I]provided[/I] they havn't signed a distribution deal with bloody cdv for the game concerned. If that's the case, you get a censored (Wafflegrenadiers, anybody ?) game with .pdf manual months late. Which I wouldn't mind, [I]if[/I] Battlefront would still sell direct - but they now refuse to ship to Europe anything that .cdv have licensed.

HPS ship cheap (mail, but it still arrives in 3-4 days), but you still get stuck with the VAT. There's a couple of Euro retailers who distribute their stuff with minimal P&P costs, though.

Interesting point on supporting individual publishers. I certainly look very closely at all Matrix games even if I don't get all of them, and you do come across some interesting stuff that way that you wouldn't normally consider. I'd never have bought ToS:WS if anyone else had published it, and for some reason the Fading Suns game appeals - not normally my sort of thing. Squad Assault and Highway to the Reich I'd have bought anyway having played their previous non-Matrix incarnations. I hope Highway gets better exposure from Matrix than Battlefront gave Airborne Assault - AA is easily the best computer wargame I've ever played, and that includes Combat Mission 1&2, Uncommon Valor and now Korsun Pocket. Sad so few of the BF "combat zombies" ever tried it.

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