Videogamesplus delivery times?

yawnstretch

Hey I just heard from videogamesplus that my copy of wipeout pure has been shipped.

Anyone have any experience with Canada - Dublin delivery times? They say 1-14 days airmail. Thoughts?

We wants it soooooooon!

Headshot

i dont want to hijack your thread but maybe someone can help me to
whats UPS delivery like

Pacifico

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

i dont want to hijack your thread but maybe someone can help me to
whats UPS delivery like

Excellent

Had my PSP (from england) within 24 hours from ordering....

yawnstretch

Yeah UPS is fast!

I got caught for customs with them though :P

hairball

how much it cost you??

yawnstretch

It was supposed to be 189 euro but I screamed bloody murder and it went down to 115.

Zapp Brannigan

if ot goes through normal postage customs never touch it.

L5

yawnstretch wrote:

Hey I just heard from videogamesplus that my copy of wipeout pure has been shipped.

Anyone have any experience with Canada - Dublin delivery times? They say 1-14 days airmail. Thoughts?

We wants it soooooooon!

Mine just shipped with them too

Ive heard people say 4-5 days to Ireland.
Please god we'll get them by friday!
Thats what Im hoping anyway!

L5

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

i dont want to hijack your thread but maybe someone can help me to
whats UPS delivery like

UPS are great. I ordered a phone from Hong Kong on a monday morning. Wednesday morning it was in my hands.
They'll screw you in charges though. Ill never use them again. 30 euro taxes and charges on a $60 game. bástards

hal9000

:eek: 189 euros where the hell did it come from mars? customs are fuppin muppets :mad:

Headshot

L5 wrote:

UPS are great. I ordered a phone from Hong Kong on a monday morning. Wednesday morning it was in my hands.
They'll screw you in charges though. Ill never use them again. 30 euro taxes and charges on a $60 game. bástards

god i hope i dont get ripped off from that fella i bought my psp games off

yawnstretch

hal9000 wrote:

:eek: 189 euros where the hell did it come from mars? customs are fuppin muppets :mad:

LOL - no it was a PSP though and not a game

Dogg Thang

Well I've had quite a few things from VG+ and I also have Wipeout on its way. It's not going to arrive any time before friday. Now there is a very slim chance it could arrive on friday but I don't know if they'll be delivering on friday because of easter. If they aren't working on friday then the earliest we'll see it is tuesday but my best guess is wednesday simply because, in my experience, it takes about 7 working days anyway and I've also noticed that very few things seem to get delivered the tuesday after a bank holiday (that could be coincidence or it could be that they have a day's backlog to catch up on).

It's hard to say though. Times can vary a lot.

Dogg.

hal9000

Oh dear! where did you get ure psp from ive ordered mine from canada and there is no way in hell im going to pay 189euro to get it from dublin customs to my front door. "here you go one psp plus Regular Ripoff Price uhh i mean R.R.P 500euro"

Placebo

189 euros ? for customs ? thats a DS+game, right there !

yawnstretch

Placebo wrote:

189 euros ? for customs ? thats a DS+game, right there !

First of all let me address the customs (before I move onto the DS comment).
My PSP was bought last year and I received it mid-December. It cost 450 euro including val pack, ridge racers and fastest insured UPS delivery.

Thats why it was so high - it probably wouldnt be anywhere near this much for anyone who is caught now.

Second. I made the TERRIBLE mistake of giving in to Nintendo. I've had only Ridge Racers since December last year and I play it a lot. I needed a new handheld game - bad. I should have waited for Easter (and all the US PSP arrivals). I didn't. I went into Gamestop and traded in a bunch of stuff including my beautiful sp for a DS and Mario 64.

It sucked. It sucked so BAD. Mario 64 was a great game. They've ruined it.
The graphics are woeful, the control schemes are distorted - try doing a backflip - I dare ya (it will take about 6 tries to pull off an easy move using the 'stylus').

So I brought it back - A DAY LATER. 'Oh it's touch screen - we dont do returns on those'. Now it was all my own fault but they had zero sympathy even though I had everything in perfect condition and I'd only just bought the stupid thing. I asked for my sp back - they charged me double for my own sp back, gave me trade in value on my ds and said they couldnt take mario back for a week or two.

So there's my DS story andif anyone wants mario 64 for 35 euro Im in Dublin.

Gizzard

yeah PSP kicks DS ass, just because the games are way better so far, that might ghange with advance wars or if Zelda DS ever comes out

Gizzard

still waiting on my 2 ordered PSP games to ship bah

L5

Gizzard wrote:

still waiting on my 2 ordered PSP games to ship bah

what games? all the EA games except NFS have been held back for 2 weeks

FGR

Videogamesplus is fantastic in terms of delivery times.

Their standard airmail is faster than this country's national post. Seriously.

I ordered a GBA SP from them and it arrived in Waterford in three days. Unbelievable.

yawnstretch

Do they not use an post then? Is there anyway to track it or get in touch with the delivery people as my house is very hard to find

Gizzard

L5 wrote:

what games? all the EA games except NFS have been held back for 2 weeks

Metal gear solid and an SPny RPG

hairball

If all your waiting for is EA games...well, ,I won't say anymore

Headshot

yawnstretch wrote:

Do they not use an post then? Is there anyway to track it or get in touch with the delivery people as my house is very hard to find

when you sighn up to video game plus did they ask for your phone number maybe they can use that to find your house

dor83

iv got a psp preordered with VG+, do you get caught for customs when you order from them.

Dogg Thang

Depends what method of shipping you used. I have never been done for customs using regular post ever. Couriers like Fedex, DHL etc get caught all the time as it seems running them through customs is part of their procedure. And because Irish customs can be quite slow I've often had things arrive by regular airmail quicker than courier.

I'm not sure what Canadian post options are like but from years of ordering online I've found the very best services come from EMS (most asian countries seem to use this and it's as quick as courier but doesn't get caught by customs) or USPS priotity air mail from the US (which is usually around 3 days but I have had rare occasions where is arrives in two).

Having said all of that, there are always factors that affect these things and sometimes any service can be unusually slow and sometimes even unusually fast.

So does anyone know if post is being delivered this friday what with easter and all? I had a quick look at the an post site but didn't see any notices about the weekend. Technically it is not a holiday.

Oh and Yawnstretch as far as tracking down your delivery goes, it will be going through an post but until they attempt a delivery they won't help you out unless you're in a remote area (where they have less post and are generally friendlier). I have tried looking for parcels that were late before and it's only an exercise in frustration. I had one great time where an post told me they don't handle packages from the US and to ring another company. They told me that an post handles the packages up to a certain size and to call an post. After several days of each company denying they had it, it arrived. I traced it back out of curiosity (even normal US post is easily traced as they seem to have great systems) and sure enough it was an post all along.

The weirdest thing to me about post is that I have ordered stuff from all over the world and the slowest place to get post from is the UK. I have no idea why...

Dogg.

yawnstretch

Interesting.

Well I got an email back from VGplus who said to call my local post office if Im worried about them finding my house so it should be interesting - hopefully we all get our games safe, sound, and speedily

L5

yawnstretch wrote:

Interesting.

Well I got an email back from VGplus who said to call my local post office if Im worried about them finding my house so it should be interesting - hopefully we all get our games safe, sound, and speedily

hear hear. Hopefully before the weekend too

Dogg Thang

Yawnstretch, if you're on to them ask if there will be deliveries on friday and let us know, eh?

Cheers,
Dogg.

L5

Dogg Thang wrote:

Yawnstretch, if you're on to them ask if there will be deliveries on friday and let us know, eh?

Cheers,
Dogg.

id also like to know this

dearg_doom

hairball wrote:

If all your waiting for is EA games...well, ,I won't say anymore

roffle

yawnstretch

Bad news guys - post office says they're closed tomorrow for Good friday.

Next week it is!

Dogg Thang

Gah! Disaster.

Nads.

L5

yawnstretch wrote:

Bad news guys - post office says they're closed tomorrow for Good friday.

Next week it is!

lazy bástards :mad:

hal9000

just got an email from videogamesplus today about the psp,
does anyone know what the hell is preship status means? i guessing it means they've taken my money but not shipped it yet

CiDeRmAn

I was sent my copy of wipeout pure on the 23rd by dvdsoon, just one of a series of orders I have with them.
From past experience I should have it by tuesday as other things sent took exactly 4 days.
That was with their free shipping option too!
It seems the only games sent for the psp have been wipeout pure and the Gretzky ice hockey title.
Their distributor is a tad slow.
No psps delivered yet either and even then only the ice hockey bundle, not the standard value pack.
With the easter holiday over there will be tuesday probably before they get any more deliveries and god knows when other stuff will be sent.
Nice to see the videogamesplus is in the same boat though.

hal9000

misery loves company eh!

Headshot

i do not wish to change the topic, but how long does lik sang to take payment by paypal because right now its still waiting for payment and that was a day ago and and how long is it usually for shipping [free shipping]

dor83

hal9000 wrote:

just got an email from videogamesplus today about the psp,
does anyone know what the hell is preship status means? i guessing it means they've taken my money but not shipped it yet

just got the same e-mail, dont know what it means but my best guess is that it means that it will be shipped within the next few days, it said on the site that you can cancel up until 3 days before it was shipped

Headshot

well lads who got there US psp games today

yawnstretch

yeah - can anyone tell me did the post from vgplus come today cos our post goes to my dads workplace and he's not there today so ive to go myself and itd be nice to know i wasnt goin for nothing

Dogg Thang

Well I have a package waiting at home that I think is Wipeout but I can't be certain until I open it up this evening.

L5

I didnt get mine
Hopefully tomorrow.

carbsy

yawnstretch wrote:

yeah - can anyone tell me did the post from vgplus come today cos our post goes to my dads workplace and he's not there today so ive to go myself and itd be nice to know i wasnt goin for nothing

I got two seperate packages from them today but surely there's no way to gauge whether you'll get yours from that - different games, order time etc.

Gizzard

they split my order into 2 for some reason hope i dont get charged extra

hal9000

lol well i got my screen protectors in the post today does that count?
now if only i had a screen to protect them with!

L5

hal9000 wrote:

lol well i got my screen protectors in the post today does that count?

so did i

hal9000

currently, according to dhl my psp along with wipeout and some sort of hockey game is currently:
2005-03-29 09:30 Transferred through Cincinnati, OH - USA Cincinnati, OH - USA
im sure it will disappear off the radar once it reaches ireland though

im sure it will read package sent to dublin ---tracking lost, aint that a shame!

yawnstretch

I've been playing it (wipEout PurE) the last few hours.

it ******* rocks

WIPEOUT FOREVERRRRRR

now to write my miserable thesis its due on thurs which means this weekend will be a DAMNED TASTY ONE!

Dogg Thang

Excellent. I can't wait to get home to play it! So, does it recapture that old WO feel?

yawnstretch

Once you get into the faster categories it starts feeling like the good old days - with a twist!

Its so incredible I've had to turn it off or else I'll fail my masters