[Question] American gaming stores.

Alright, I'm looking to purchase american games but I can't seem to find anywhere reliable or trustworthy.

I've tried ebay, but I've had some rusty deals (again) so fuck that. I've used videogamesplus.ca before, but their postage is ridiculous. I've tried dvdboxoffice, but they took over a week just to accept payment and I ended up cancelling in the second week.

I've had rusty deals with yesasia as well, and well, they don't have much of a library of american games. So I'm still on the hunt for a store that has reasonable international shipping (or free shipping) and has a supply of american games.

Any suggestions guys?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Play-asia have a very, very limited amount of american games, otherwise I would just order from them and not complain.

Oh and amazon only ship internationally on books, the last I checked, which was a month ago.

I'll check out gamesuniverse sometime.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Uhh, no dude. Look, I have an amazon account, and I've tried to buy games from them before. I get this:

*** We're sorry. This item can't be shipped to your selected destination. You may either change the shipping address or delete the item from your order by changing its quantity to 0 and clicking the update button below. ( See geographical restrictions.) ***

So that's out of the picture.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

EB Games ship worldwide, but they charge out the ass in shipping, so that's out of the picture.

So far, my only options are yes-asia and dvdboxoffice. Which isn't getting me anywhere, since I've had sour deals with both of those companies before. I don't want to trust some random ebayer and their "store" because this has proven to be a gamble as to customer service.

Seriously, what the hell do I do?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It's not that I'm convinced that Amazon have issues with shipping, it's just that they won't. And I purchased Valkyrie Profile 2 on the 13th of October from an ebayer with his own store. And it's the 30th and I'm still waiting. I'M STILL WAITING. If he doesn't respond to the dispute I've raised with paypal, I'll have to escalate it to a claim.

See, I don't want to do this. This shouldn't of happened in the first place. I expected to receive the item and it still hasn't arrived, thus I'm screwed if paypal won't refund. Where the fuck will my money be then? I can't trust ebay and I can't use Amazon. I could take my chances with yes-asia and dvdboxoffice, but with yes-asia I've had an order delayed for 2 weeks without any response, and I've purchased something through dvdboxoffice which they apparently didn't have in stock, but "forgot" to update the website.

How would I go about finding myself a buyer? It doesn't sound as easy as visiting rubberslug, since it's all anime based.

How ya doing, buddy?

At the moment I'm looking for mainly american PS2 and DS games.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah... this isn't helping.

Double Post:
Has anyone ordered with dvdstars before?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by debbie7

If you're in NZ you must've checked TradeMe? There's always a few US games on there and traders advertising that they'll get in any game you want. You'll pay a bit more but then, they're going to the trouble of importing them so it's only fair really.

Trademe never, ever has anything I'm interested in. More specifically if someone's selling a game from the US there, the chances are it most likely isn't new. I don't want to pay a 10% or whatever amount in their own profit when I could get it from an american store and possibly save myself a few.

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The only other suggestion is to stick to one or two particular traders on ebay who are reliable and just order from them. At some stage they'll start asking what you're looking for and maybe source them just for you. Worth a try anyway.

Like? I've only had about 4 deals on ebay, and 2 of them were reliable. They're pretty outdated with their stock though and I doubt they'd go to the trouble of tracking down games for someone half way across the other side of the world.

I've ordered a game through National Console Support (ncsx) so I'll see how well they do. Currently I don't trust ebay regardless of how much feedback they have. The fact is, they're in america, paypal don't always refund 100%, and I'm pretty sure the disputes center in Wellington will get sick of me bugging them.

Also, I don't want to wait 30 days before I can claim a refund, which is what I'm going to have to do for one or possibly two of the items I've purchased off ebay. Actually two, but one definitely isn't arriving. The other I just don't know yet.

I really like ncsx's website, and it looks promising. $11US for international shipping sounds pretty good. I was going to go with dvdstars, but they've had negative reviews. Same shit with dvdboxoffice, which nobody recommends (even if they do have free international shipping) and yes-asia will take 7-14 days before they'll even ship it.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

It isn't so much being hard on ebay as it is the fact that I shouldn't have to wait something over 12 working days for stuff to arrive. Since this has happened, I'm not going to purchase something from ebay, pay immediately, and have them wait 5 days before even shipping it.

I'm not the most patient person in the world, but shipping shouldn't be so slow that it makes you question whether the item will actually reach here, or whether it was even shipped.

This is my main reason for avoiding ebay. But I've found some other alternatives which have either free international shipping, or are cheap. I'll see how it goes from there.

Originally Posted by Dizzy

Why is so expensive the shipping on EBgames and gamestop? Only the shipping costs me like 60 bucks!!! That didn't happened when i bought in amazon where they only charged me with $10 for a big package!

Yeah it's rubbish. There's no way in hell I'd order something from ebgames or gamestop, simply because their shipping is beyond comprehension. I don't understand how they can get away with shipping costing more than the actual game itself and not have people question it.

Then again, it seems ebgames worldwide has been making a poor reputation for itself.

Jam it back in, in the dark.