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Just an idea about getting shipping help......

whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
edited 2014-06-29 07:18 in General Discussion
You see I don't mind playing the odd board game with my nephews. There is one in particular game that ive had trouble finding, called Age Of Conan. Its over $90 here in Australia but i found it on Amazon for $34. Unfortunately it will not be shipped to my country.

Would anyone help me by buying it and sending it to me or is it all to much mucking about. ? but then by the time you get charged shipping from Amazon and then to Australia, is it going to end up much cheaper anyway ?

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-06-26 23:42
    If you can get it sent to a person in the USA for a good price and free shipping, the forwarding might be a reasonable savings. I have two friends in the USA that will do this for me.

    But I think I save a lot more money by not even looking at Amazon. For books, I go to Abe Books and buy second hand.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-27 00:28
    yeah, but if you don't mind reading off a kindle then Amazon is the place to go ! But... technical books such as programming and electronics don't seem to be as good a value as others like history, bio's, fiction. I think I'll pass on trying to get that game. its too much trouble.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2014-06-27 01:01
    Have you tried buying it on eBay?

    Seems to be a few games there...
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-06-27 02:25
    Thousands of years ago, all roads led to Rome, now all roads lead to Ebay.

    I wouldn't mind reading off of Kindle... if I owned one. I have to buy Kindle books, migrate the format to be read in Calibre on Linux.

    If someone had told me 25 years ago that I would spend my old age tending to battery chargers, I would have told them that they were crazy. But the world is full of surprises.

    Eventually I may buy a touchpad that will read Kindle, but so far I work around this next step. Buy a real Kindle for $69 and pay for shipping to Taiwan? Nope.

    I stay away from Amazon, just like I stay away from malls and department stores. Out of sight, out of mind. It you see it, you want it.

    I am waiting for a Kindle that I can put in my back pocket and ride a cross-town bus without damaging the screen -- like a real paperback book. That would be something to behold.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-27 02:45
    i spilt coffee all over my kindle and now im back to using the kobo. the kobo store is nowhere near as good as amazon, but i did get a great mint book the other day. i am in no hurry to buy another kindle, its at least a hundred bucks for one here !

    i might copy your trick if i find a kindle book i just have to have, but thats unlikly. i seem to remember Brad had a nook or some ereader that he loved. i think it was in colour ?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-06-27 02:57
    If you ever get to Chiang Mai, Thailand; the used paperback bookstores are excellent -- maybe the best in Asia. I am not sure exactly why, maybe the Vietnam War. I can't seem to avoid good used book stores.

    I like the look and feel of the wall of bookshelves in my home. And I like my stereo music with the warm glow of vacuum tubes from a stereo that can't be tipped over in a breeze. It is hard to let go and deal with all these tiny things.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-27 23:50
    i think i read too much, ill read anything !! i like old book stores. best book ive bough so far is probably Hamlet. i know it word for word. so many common sayings are straight out of the pages of that play, one scene of many that are beaut is when hamlet is describing his depression. its never been described better and i'll guess you have read it ?
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-06-28 11:13
    I assume it's this game?

    By the time it get shipped, it will be close to $90.

    The postage came out to be about $56 though the US postal service.
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-28 12:05
    yes, that is the one. . i can get it for $90 here. Ithink i'll swerve off that whole idea. $90 is just too much for a game, then i think lots of computer games cost that much, but i wouldnt buy one of them either !!
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-06-28 12:16
    It's generally the tracking that costs the extra money.

    I can send a package USPS Worldwide between $8-$12 at 13oz depending on where it's going.

    The problem is that I can't really tell if it reached it's destination. As a small business person, I have to depend on the honesty of my buyers. If someone claims they didn't get a kit, I'm shipping another on my dime. If I started "loosing" packages consistantly around the world, I'd have to change the way I do things,.

    Large businesses like Amazon depend on the the extra tracking services which cost $20-$25 more to make sure the package reaches it's destination. Then pass the costs to you.

    Find a friend you trust in the US and have them ship to you. (Of course they have to trust you too. :) )
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-06-28 12:56
    I think the size of the game is one of the reasons it costs so much to ship.

    It's listed as:
    • Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 16 x 11 inches ; 5.8 pounds
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-28 13:12
    its still a huge amount of cents for posting a box! i dont know what the US situation is like but in australia posting parcells is getting very expensive, probly driven by the loss of so much mail that not many people send anymore. there was a rumor years ago that australia post was going to charge 2 cents for every email sent, it was really funny because many believed it . !!!
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-06-28 13:14
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    I think the size of the game is one of the reasons it costs so much to ship.

    It's listed as:

    Good lord! There is simply no need for this kind of foolishness.

    Print "bits" on paper and plastic to the tune of 5.8 pounds and ship. Egads...
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-06-28 13:15
    whiteoxe wrote: »
    its still a huge amount of cents for posting a box! i dont know what the US situation is like but in australia posting parcells is getting very expensive, probly driven by the loss of so much mail that not many people send anymore. there was a rumor years ago that australia post was going to charge 2 cents for every email sent, it was really funny because many believed it . !!!

    Yeah, I remember a simular rumor here in the states. It was to charge per "space". Until some clever hacker simply said we'd quit using ASCII 32 for spaces. :)
  • whiteoxewhiteoxe Posts: 794
    edited 2014-06-28 14:05
    Ive lost the right to laugh at anyone getting fooled on the internet after being fooled by a "Microsoft tech guy" and I even gave him full control over my computer by installing Team Viewer as he instructed me ;0
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2014-06-28 15:37
    whiteoxe wrote: »
    Ive lost the right to laugh at anyone getting fooled on the internet after being fooled by a "Microsoft tech guy" and I even gave him full control over my computer by installing Team Viewer as he instructed me ;0

    Ouch... Just warn others.. That'll make things even...
  • RS_JimRS_Jim Posts: 1,766
    edited 2014-06-29 07:18
    whiteoxe wrote: »
    Ive lost the right to laugh at anyone getting fooled on the internet after being fooled by a "Microsoft tech guy" and I even gave him full control over my computer by installing Team Viewer as he instructed me ;0
    We have had "the Microsoft tech guy" calling us for weeks trying to get us to fall for his line of BS. My wife finally went along with the gag and stood in our kitchen with a pad and pencil and wrote down his instructions. She kept asking him what am I supposed to see? Finally we turned her notes over to the local sharif's office. The next time he called we told him we had taken the computer to a repair shop! The last time he called my wife recognized his voice and called him by the name he used first. Next she told him the Police were tracing his call and he better leave Philidelphia as they were on their way to get him! Vola no more calls!
    Jim
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