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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:16am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jelly3 (1 MAR 2003 12:00am)
I have ordered from them 9 times in 2 years. Delivery has always been within 3 days.
What I don't understand is the box issue, I live in the UK, if I buy a boxed game then thats what I get.
On many games they give you the option, jewel case or box. So I really don't understand the problem, they don't force you to buy boxless just cause it's a European destination.
Postage is high so I always buy in bulk 8-11 usually boxed games at a time.
i didn't say they force you to buy the game boxless, i said they gave you a choice, but if you wanted to buy it with the box you were forced to pay courier (ie aprx the price of one game!)... of course that's not a problem to someone who doesn't care for the boxes but i do so it is a problem to me, and i know there are other ppl who want the boxes too so i give them this warning - they should search elsewhere first, where postage doesn't cost as much as buying another game... and like you and betje said, the solution to this would be buying a lot of games at once, but then again, what if you only want to buy just one game (like i did with QfG collection)
reminder: all this was about 1 year ago, so if this has changed DO correct me (but i don't think it has since noone has said so yet)
Playinggames interactive is the best for really obscure games.
how about a link to them then?
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:35am |
jelly3Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 73
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Sorry, Aya Brea,
I missunderstood.
Usually with one game, I trade on Gametz & pray my fellow trader continues to be as trustworthy as their ratings indicate.
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:37am |
jelly3Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 73
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Playinggames interactive are at,
http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/homepage.html
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:39am |
jelly3Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 73
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Playinggames are at,
http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/homepage.html
I don't even post this on my Gametz page in case someone sees a rare game and gets it first. Very selfish of me I know. :-[
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:54am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jelly3 (1 MAR 2003 12:39am)
Playinggames are at,
http://www.playinggamesinteractive.com/homepage.html
I don't even post this on my Gametz page in case someone sees a rare game and gets it first. Very selfish of me I know. :-[
thanx for the link... and i can understand your point about gametz don't worry!
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 1:31am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Just so there is no misunderstanding: CDAccess is unequivocably one of the most reliable and reasonable places to purchase adventure games. For U.S. shipping the prices are not only reasonable, but low compared to others: $5.95 gets you 2-day delivery no matter how many games you buy.
When comparing the fairness of shipping costs you have to compare apples with apples. The few times I've had to make any purchase, private or commercial, from a source in Europe, I've always had to pay at least double the price of shipping from the U.S. I've never looked on that as unfair, that's just the reality of purchasing from overseas, no matter which direction it's in!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 2:07am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | the unfair thing is that cdaccess gives you the option of courier ONLY (when you want boxes) and not standard mail like others do... sure standard mail from the us would cost more, but courier costs A LOT more
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 3:17am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (1 MAR 2003 2:06am)
the unfair thing is that cdaccess gives you the option of courier ONLY (when you want boxes) and not standard mail like others do... sure standard mail from the us would cost more, but courier costs A LOT more
What's unfair about it? Different businesses handle things differently for various reasons. Have you ever checked into what those reasons might be? They're not doing it just to make your life difficult. CDAccess is a very small company- sometimes that has a lot to do with how cost-effective it is to ship to other countries by various types of mail. If other companies are shipping by standard mail, they may have reasons for handling it that you don't know about- maybe they have European warehouses or something.
You have the freedom and the right to get your games from a company that can provide you with the best deal. CDAccess doesn't have some sort of obligation to meet your exact needs!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 11:14am |
Wandering_FoolIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | For those of you looking for UK based info on Adventure games, and other genres, look no further than the site at http://dawnoo2002.proboards6.com/index.cgi it may be just what you're looking for.
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 12:05pm |
| Deleted User | ...and one of the (many) things I like about CDAccess is that you can see how many copies they have in stock.
Betje
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 5:23pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (1 MAR 2003 3:17am)
You have the freedom and the right to get your games from a company that can provide you with the best deal. CDAccess doesn't have some sort of obligation to meet your exact needs!
in the very beginning i was thinking that some ppl have comprehension problems, but know i'm 100% sure it's just me having communication problems! : i can't believe i always get an answer totally irrelevant to what i said!
did i say cdaccess has an obligation to me? did i? cause i keep reading my posts and finding NOTHING like that mentioned... i said:
cdaccess' postage rates are TOO high for Europe cause they force you to pay courier, unless you don't want the boxes... whatever the reason, it's their right to... and it's my right not to like it, and to warn all europeans to search elsewhere first, where games can be sent using standard or free shipping
(and i know i'll get an irrelevant answer again :)
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 6:01pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Aya:
I think you are probably right that this has to do with a communication, language-difference problem. Here's my take on it: It starts with the fact that adventure gamers are sensitive to the fact that there are relatively few reliable sources of adventure games. Practically no game-sellers stock much in the way of adventure games. So here is CDAccess which probably has the best and most comprehensive adventure game inventory of any of them.
Now someone comes along and says that their shipping policies are 'outrageous' and 'unfair'. Perhaps you don't realize that these are potentially inflammatory, provocative terms which imply that someone is 'doing you wrong' as opposed to just following reputable business practices that alllow them to make a reasonable profit. Maybe you didn't mean them that way, but that's the way they come across.
Why does this matter to me? Because I rely on CDAccess for a number of my AG purchases and they have always been 100% fair and reliable. Sometimes there prices are a little higher than the competition on a few games, but I often overlook that because of their reliability and fast delivery; sometimes service quality is worth paying a little more for. And often their prices are even lower than what the same games sell for on Ebay. The bottom line is that I would hope that all of us try to support the few businesses that still take adventure games seriously as a commercially-viable product!
P.S. I would be willing to bet that the reason they insist on using courier service is that they have had complaints because of slow delivery by regular mail and/or the packages not having arrrived at all. Fedex, on the other hand is extremely fast and reliable. I don't know that this is the reason for a fact...it's just my guess. (When I've ordered a package even from Canada, it's taken as long as 3-4 weeks to come by regular mail).
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 6:11pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | SirDave you're absolutely right about everything you said... but the fact that there are very few adv games sources works both ways... so you can imagine my frustration when i FINALLY found the QfG collection box i was missing, only to discover i had to pay double the price to get it :... i don't have anything against cdaccess and i know they stock some pretty hard to find staff, but like you said a customer always seeks the best deal... so when you know you'll have to pay so much money for postage, you just search elsewhere first, and leave that as a last resort, and that's what i warn european gamers about, in order not to get overenthusiastic about finding an adv they wanted, without knowing how much they'll end up paying for it (box included always)
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| 1 MAR 2003 at 8:55pm |
| Deleted User | By the way, Miss Aya, are you still looking for the Quest for Glory collection? If you are, I know a European on-line store that still sells it. New, so probably new in box. Don't know how much they charge for shipping boxes. I ordered only once from them and that game came in a DVD style case.
Betje
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| 2 MAR 2003 at 12:57am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Betje (1 MAR 2003 8:54pm)
By the way, Miss Aya, are you still looking for the Quest for Glory collection? If you are, I know a European on-line store that still sells it. New, so probably new in box. Don't know how much they charge for shipping boxes. I ordered only once from them and that game came in a DVD style case.
Betje
thanx betje but i got the collection from cdaccess then... i just had it sent to a person i knew who lived in the usa and she sent it to me afterwards... the whole process i think took 10 days
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