08-12-2004, 11:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2004, 11:17 AM by [wcip]Angel.)
Favourite website of all time, with the exception of The Lurkerlounge, would have to be www.play.com. It's got a wide variety of DVDs, CDs, games, gadgets and electronics for very low prices (compared to what one would have to pay for the stuff in Norwegian stores.)
I recently bought the entire Buffy-series for £30 pr season (season 1 was cheaper due to it only being 12 episodes). If I were to purchase this in Norway, I would have had to shell out more than twice that. (That's not an exaggeration. Prices on DVDs in Norway are heinous!)
I also bought season 2 of NYPD Blue and Firefly (another masterpiece by Buffy-creater Joss Whedon) at low-low-prices. I just checked the prices on Buffy, and it seems their summer-sale is over. The price has gone back up to £48, which is fine by me :)
They're also sensitive to our moronic customs laws here in Norway. If a piece of merchandise, be it a DVD box set, a game or a DVD player, is over 200NOK (about $25), we have to pay an additional tax of 24% + another additional fee for bringing into Norway.
Say you order 10 DVDs which cost about $10 a piece. The total price will be well over the $25 range, but Play.com will package each individual DVD on its own, meaning you don't get 1 package worth $100, but 10 at $10 a piece, which lets you under the limit.
At one point I ordered Resident Evil2 for the Gamecube, they were out of stock, so I had to wait a couple of months until they could restock. When I ordered the game, the price was *just* below 200NOK (about 198 or something), but a couple of months later, the currency had changed, and the £17 had turned into 202NOK, leaving me over the limit. When I got the game, I checked my netbank and I saw (in error) that they had charged me more. Now, this was a mistake on my part; I read the website wrong. They had indeed NOT charged me extra due to me being over the limit, but I was under the assumption that they had. I sent an e-mail to Play.com arguing that I shouldn't have to pay the tax, and they agreed to pay it for me. Soon after I discovered my error, and did not have to take advantage of their genereous offer, but it was nice of them to go that extra mile for me.
I recently bought the entire Buffy-series for £30 pr season (season 1 was cheaper due to it only being 12 episodes). If I were to purchase this in Norway, I would have had to shell out more than twice that. (That's not an exaggeration. Prices on DVDs in Norway are heinous!)
I also bought season 2 of NYPD Blue and Firefly (another masterpiece by Buffy-creater Joss Whedon) at low-low-prices. I just checked the prices on Buffy, and it seems their summer-sale is over. The price has gone back up to £48, which is fine by me :)
They're also sensitive to our moronic customs laws here in Norway. If a piece of merchandise, be it a DVD box set, a game or a DVD player, is over 200NOK (about $25), we have to pay an additional tax of 24% + another additional fee for bringing into Norway.
Say you order 10 DVDs which cost about $10 a piece. The total price will be well over the $25 range, but Play.com will package each individual DVD on its own, meaning you don't get 1 package worth $100, but 10 at $10 a piece, which lets you under the limit.
At one point I ordered Resident Evil2 for the Gamecube, they were out of stock, so I had to wait a couple of months until they could restock. When I ordered the game, the price was *just* below 200NOK (about 198 or something), but a couple of months later, the currency had changed, and the £17 had turned into 202NOK, leaving me over the limit. When I got the game, I checked my netbank and I saw (in error) that they had charged me more. Now, this was a mistake on my part; I read the website wrong. They had indeed NOT charged me extra due to me being over the limit, but I was under the assumption that they had. I sent an e-mail to Play.com arguing that I shouldn't have to pay the tax, and they agreed to pay it for me. Soon after I discovered my error, and did not have to take advantage of their genereous offer, but it was nice of them to go that extra mile for me.
