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Buying games now! Will they be here for christmas?

  • 08-12-2007 3:20pm
    #1
    dazftw
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    Im getting 3 Xbox 360 games for Christmas and im curious if I ordered them today or tomorrow what are the chances of them arriving before Christmas day, I would usually buy them at gamestop or whatever but I could save a bit buying online..

    The website im thinking of using would be play.com or play-asia.com even though I never used the later.. I just used play.com for some pc games took about a week to come!

    EDIT: Ok so the games on play.com are actually more expensive than ones in the shops.. what you think of play-asia?

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  • #2
    Dman001
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    Play-asia may not work out as cheap as you would hope because you may get hit with import tax.


  • #3
    dazftw
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    Yea I was thinking that.. 3 games on there are working out 70euro cheaper in shops..

    I bought a camera lense of ebay before for like 700 I think it was I only got charged 40 euro tax.

    Would I be risking it getting charged same amount for games?

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  • #4
    kensutz
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    DMan is wrong. If you order games one at a time you will avoid import tax. Just make sure they're region free before you order.


  • #5
    MayoForSam
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    Apparently play-asia shipping has gotten really slow recently, so it's not very likely that anything ordered from now on will be delivered this side of Xmas.


  • #6
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Play-asia also might not ship the games into Europe at all. If they're valued at over €25, then they're fair game for the tax man.


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  • #7
    tman
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    jor el wrote: »
    Play-asia also might not ship the games into Europe at all. If they're valued at over €25, then they're fair game for the tax man.

    They're frequently used by bordsies such as myself, and I've never heard of them not shipping something due to it being over a certain value.
    They won't ship PS3 games to Europe, but you'd have a hard time finding any asian store that will after what happened with Lik-sang...

    Delivery times are crap recently though, so expect them the week after crimbo if you order now...


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