And lo On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:04:38 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:16:08 +0100, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> And lo On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:39:24 +0100, Jim Henderson
>> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:
>>
>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:03:18 +0100, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was going to ask why you don't pick it up online but bloody hell
>>>> I've just looked at Amazon.com and it's from $47.99 new and that's not
>>>> even directly from Amazon, it's £11.19 at Amazon.co.uk. Now that's a
>>>> shock the US price being higher than the UK one.
>>>
>>> Hey, FlipC! ;-)
>>>
>>> I had looked as well, and found it for anywhere from $24 to $74 online.
>>> I was *really* surprised. :-/
>>
>> Well in theory you could pick it up from here as the games aren't region
>> coded. In practice I can't find anything official on how patching works,
>> and it seems any DLC (which it hasn't got anyway) won't work unless you
>> sign in with an EU account, and who knows how multiplayer is handled.
>>
>> Bit of a joke really.
>
> Yeah; of course, shipping from the UK would cost a fair bit as well,
> probably would make up the difference in cost. :-)

I don't know if it weighs less than 200g then the Royal Mail would do it  
with Delivery Confirmation for just over £8 or $12. Amazon.co.uk seems to  
be even cheaper with their highest delivery rate being £7. Of course as I  
said there's the possible patch problems etc. to contend with.

-- 
Phil Cook

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