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Cheap Arse Gaffer |Europe| Cheap, Calm, and Carry On
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YianGaruga
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... did amazon.co.uk just stop selling games to outside the UK? It doesn't work anymore (for EU countries)
MikeHattsu
Member
Just used my US account address and it was fine.
YianGaruga
Banned
Seems to work here. Almost £10 for shipping though
I think they still sell to outside of EU, just not to EU countries :|
Try Germany, Italy or something
j0hnny_385
Member
Works just fine (Croatia here).
Example:
Witcher 3 PS4
Item: 36.45GBP
Postage&Packing: 3.93GBP
ORDER TOTAL: 40.38 GBP
Make sure the item you're looking at is "Dispatched from and sold by Amazon", not a 3rd party seller (they can have country restrictions, etc.)
edit: also, it plainly says: "This item can be delivered to Croatia" just below the above sentence.
Yeah, I can't order anything to be delivered to Portugal. What the hell is going on?
YianGaruga
Banned
So that we're all on the same page, try this game, sold by amazon, to your EU address.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00V374ROO/
EDIT: Witcher 3 works for some reason, to Germany as well, but it's pretty much the only one I can find
what the hell
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00V374ROO/
EDIT: Witcher 3 works for some reason, to Germany as well, but it's pretty much the only one I can find
what the hell
j0hnny_385
Member
Dafuq? Yea, Danganronpa won't work.
"There was a problem with some of the items in your order."
"Sorry, this item can't be sent to your selected address."
First time I'm seeing this. NISA fucking around or what? ...
YianGaruga
Banned
Dafuq? Yea, Danganronpa won't work.
"There was a problem with some of the items in your order."
"Sorry, this item can't be sent to your selected address."
First time I'm seeing this. NISA fucking around or what? ...
It's not only NISA games. FIFA doesn't work either for example.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KHJLGNY/
Try practically any game sold by amazon that isn't Witcher 3 lol
same with Codename Steam to Germany. Policy change or fuck-up? I actually fear it is the former.
YianGaruga
Banned
I don't order there often but it would suck to lose options.
I sent an email to customer support, would be cool if some of you could do the same so we get to the bottom of this
I sent an email to customer support, would be cool if some of you could do the same so we get to the bottom of this
YianGaruga
Banned
When you select your shipping address that is outside the UK
MikeHattsu
Member
If you click on the country name on the product page and change it, it will tell you too:
YianGaruga
Banned
You can still add it to the cart and start the checkout process though. It'll only stop you once you actually select your address
Small world, as I only live a few miles away as well lol.
Do you know which Disney Infinity characters were reduced by any chance?
YianGaruga
Banned
Well, this raises considerably more questions than it answers.
No I think I figured it out, games are only sold to the UK or non-EU countries.
US, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland: works
Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Malta: nope
It's a very specific list of countries, which is worrying
For now, I'd simply assume a bug rather than a change in policy, because the item restrictions page still says games are fine in the EU - and you'd assume that an explicit policy change would update that.
Still very odd, though.
(As an aside, I find this unreasonably amusing
Unless you want Witcher 3!
Good. It would be terribly uncouth to send our tea away.(As an aside, I find this unreasonably amusing
Crumpets seem fine though...
j0hnny_385
Member
Is this Amazon pushing EU users to buy at their country's Amazons? Germans should buy at Amazon.de, Italians at .it , etc. ?
This is ludicrous however you put it...
This is ludicrous however you put it...
It's not happening the other way right now. I can buy games from any European Amazon site.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Europe, your time is up. For too long you've been trying to take advantage of the super cheap UK prices and cheap tea. No more.
YianGaruga
Banned
That list is never accurate, deliveries to the US and Canada always worked but they're not on the list.
Kind of sucks for people without local amazons though right?
Especially Ireland lol
YianGaruga
Banned
Zeouterlimits
Member
I think we're group under the UK's one anyway.
YianGaruga
Banned
It's amazon trying to shape our gaming tastes
Halo 5 works as well
You're now only allowed the triplest of triple A titles!
foobarry81
Member
There's a pattern of Amazon (UK) going further anti-consumer.
- orders over £25 used to get free shipping for a good deal of EU countries
- they didn't charge country-specific VAT for EU countries until a couple of years ago.
- standard shipping takes longer to arrive (even though we actually pay for it now)
- now this crap.
- orders over £25 used to get free shipping for a good deal of EU countries
- they didn't charge country-specific VAT for EU countries until a couple of years ago.
- standard shipping takes longer to arrive (even though we actually pay for it now)
- now this crap.
Dude the fuck? I know some of you guys have been having issues with their changes recently, I've actually stopped buying from them for a while (more out of chance than a direct decision) but this is ridiculous if true. Amazon Ireland start up plz.
Seriously though I hope it's just a random issue but I'm doubting it, I noticed a lot of stuff I looked at that was dispatched by Amazon in the last month or so said they wouldn't ship to Ireland and a lot of it was basics like toys and music.
It is called running a business, Son.
You're not toythatkills.
j0hnny_385
Member
Hardware (Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.)
Xbox One 500GB Console with FIFA 16
- Sorry, we can't deliver this item to Croatia
Xbox One Limited Edition 1TB Forza Motorsport 6 Bundle and a Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
- This item can be delivered to Croatia
WTF?
Xbox One 500GB Console with FIFA 16
- Sorry, we can't deliver this item to Croatia
Xbox One Limited Edition 1TB Forza Motorsport 6 Bundle and a Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
- This item can be delivered to Croatia
WTF?
Garrett Hawke
Member
Amazon just wants you to have the Premium Xbox Experience.Hardware (Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.)
Xbox One 500GB Console with FIFA 16
- Sorry, we can't deliver this item to Croatia
Xbox One Limited Edition 1TB Forza Motorsport 6 Bundle and a Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
- This item can be delivered to Croatia
WTF?
Linkstrikesback
Member
Most of those can be put down to the government/UK public realising what a shitshow Amazon UK was running. It's easy to have competitive prices and not charge country specific VAT when you're pocketing the VAT through loopholes rather than paying the it to the (UK) government.
In 2014, Amazon UK made >£4.3billion but only paid £4.3million in tax. Now they actually apply VAT law properly (Uh, or at least, slightly more than they used to...) following UK and EU regulations, rather than just effectively charging everything at 20% (for UK sales) and using whichever tax haven they were putting on the books to pocket the extra. This allowed for them to make it seem like shipping and such was free, when that's where they were actually paying for it from.
Basically don't use amazon if you don't like the policies :/
Hardware (Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.)
Xbox One 500GB Console with FIFA 16
- Sorry, we can't deliver this item to Croatia
Xbox One Limited Edition 1TB Forza Motorsport 6 Bundle and a Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Edition
- This item can be delivered to Croatia
WTF?
It's gotta be a bug at this point. Either that, or you gotta have that bigger hard drive.
Beyonce Beytwice
Member
Neither of these things are sustainable for any business. Be realistic.
They're not a charity.
foobarry81
Member
I still get free shipping for orders over a certain amount from Amazon France and Germany.
I get free shipping from Zavvi.
Beyonce Beytwice
Member
"Free", lol. Nothing in commercial business is free, it's just a different way of saying the shipping costs are calculated into the price of the product. Shipping from France and Germany to Belgium also isn't as expensive as it is from the UK to Belgium (.fr and .de might even have warehouses there).
Linkstrikesback
Member
Then shop at zavvi?
foobarry81
Member
Obviously I was referring to the total price of an order, shipping included. Amazon UK just started charging more ever since they 'dropped the free shipping'. I used to pay £20 for a game, now I pay £20 + 3. £3 price increase basically. That price increase isn't there yet at Amazon Germany and France.
As for the warehouse thing. Amazon actually has an exchange center in Charleroi, Belgium. Both German, French and UK packages are all first sent there before they are rerouted to my place.
Having multiple options is always better. Don't hear any UK people complaining here.
Well I would consider Zavvi shipping free. They have the same prices for everyone even if some of the shipping is included in item prices already.
Meanwhile for example Bookdepository advertises "free worldwide delivery" but their item pricing is country specific. A book that costs an UK person £6 might cost me £15. A board game that costs 30 to ship to Germany costs me 70. That's some free shipping, eh. I'd call what Bookdepository is doing illegal but what do I know. At least with Zavvi everyone has the same base pricing and most countries get shipping "for free" on top of that.
necrosmash
Banned
Looks like it's every game that Amazon sells directly that can no longer be bought, I get no error when looking at games that are merely fulfilled by Amazon.
I posted a question and saw another one there already from a Spanish user, I'll post here if I hear anything back.
I posted a question and saw another one there already from a Spanish user, I'll post here if I hear anything back.
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