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buying on play.com

tabatha · 2006-10-02 15:12:04

have just noticed that you dont seem able to buy games on play.com anymore if you live in ireland. i just went in and selected a game for my psp and clicked on buy, it went into my basket but when i went to the checkout it said "this item can only be delivered to a uk address", any ideas why and when this changed??

02-10-2006 4:12pm

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tabatha

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have just noticed that you dont seem able to buy games on play.com anymore if you live in ireland. i just went in and selected a game for my psp and clicked on buy, it went into my basket but when i went to the checkout it said "this item can only be delivered to a uk address", any ideas why and when this changed??

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#2 02-10-2006 4:15pm

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A few threads on the issue located here. It has been going on for a few weeks I believe.

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#3 02-10-2006 4:25pm

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thanks for that

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#4 02-10-2006 4:49pm

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really? because I ordered Yakuza and Star Wars II, within the last 3 weeks and got them no problems

In fact the whole reason I bought Star Wars II was because it was cheaper on play.com then anywhere in Dublin

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#5 02-10-2006 4:51pm

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think it has something to do if you selected the order in sterling.

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#6 02-10-2006 4:56pm

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whiskeyman wrote:

think it has something to do if you selected the order in sterling.

why bother - the price quoted on play.com when converted from sterling is near enough the same price when you do it automatically on the site

example use www.xe.com/pca to do a conversion, think there is maybe 10-20 cents in the difference

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#7 03-10-2006 4:36pm

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I think what he meant was that if you convert the price from sterling to euro, then you are able to get the stuff posted to Ireland. I ordered a game today, which I haven't been able to do for a while, by changing the £11.99 pricetag to €17.99. The order was accepted without any problems. Now I just have to wait to see if it arrives...

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#8 04-10-2006 11:49am

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And today I got an email saying they've posted it ouy so I guess it works...

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#9 05-10-2006 4:09pm

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The Euro conversion rate on Play was ridiculously high when they initially began to only accept orders in Euro's to addresses outside the UK.

However, a few days later (possibly from all the irate e-mails sent to them) the rates were changed. They've now rounded all the Euro conversions up to either €xx.49 or €xx.99.

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