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    Amazon.com now say they will not ship outside US

    Thought this was important enough for its own thread... the product pages for the LE AND SE at amazon.com

    LE: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005QB4E

    SE: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JC8D

    both now carry this bit of text:

    Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.

    which is potentially very bad news for any non-US folk who want the LE *at all*, or the SE before their own country's release date.

    Personally, my pre-order for the LE (made at the start of this month) still shows as valid on my amazon.com account page. I am too scared however to email them and ask for clarification
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    Hasn't modified my order at all...
    Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
    Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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    • #3
      Hmmm, mine hasn't changed either and I'm not emailing to find out. If they ship it 30th/31st grand - if not, cancel and just wait until November the bloody 16th

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      • #4
        I have just e-mailed Amazon US re my order for the LE to ask whether its still coming to the UK. I ordered some time ago. Will let you know if I'm not too upset by their reply!

        Perhaps I shouldn't have drawn attention to myself and it would have just slipped through.
        We shall show mercy but we shall not ask for it

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        • #5
          I am so confused with this information. I have pre-ordered the LE from amazon in USA two months ago, and I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I must have the LE. But what now? What does it mean when they say "currently, this item blah, blah"? Will they send the game later on - or what? Perhaps will my order be cancelled for not living in USA. Why can´t we have a world wide release date for the game?! Perhaps I should cancelled my order at (F*ucking) Amazon and then order the LE at another American on-line store. Does anybody knows, if they are willing to sell you the game outside their land?
          "Beware of the English Empire; the English people are
          going to rule the world again in "CIVILIZATION III""

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          • #6
            go to EB then....
            "What do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? (1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. (2) Advising the President. (3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin."

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            • #7
              This evening I received a reply to my e-mail to Amazon US re LE and delivery outside the US. They said that software often carried 'manufacturers restrictions' and that I could order the product from Amazon UK - as if I would be so stupid as to buy from the US what I could get from the UK!! Is this a trade embargo? Anyway, I e-mailed back and asked them whether this meant that they would not honour my order of the 20th Sept. Will let you know but I feel M A D!!!

              Well, to cool off, I'm off to listen to 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' on tape and also to have an hours extra sleep (if I can sleep in the circumstances) as British Summer Time ends tonight.

              Bye
              We shall show mercy but we shall not ask for it

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              • #8
                JanB, I bet you got also response like this:

                Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.com.

                Due to manufacturer restrictions, we are currently able to ship computer software titles to only a few destinations outside of the
                United States. Some manufacturers who provide us with these products intend them for the U.S. market only and will not allow us to offer them for sale outside the U.S.

                Selected software titles are available for shipment to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan.

                These titles are displayed on our web site with a notation that says. "Shipping: This item ships internationally."

                Our U.K. web site also offers many software titles that can be shipped within the European Union. You can visit their store at this URL:

                Software: Amazon.co.uk
                http://www.amazon.co.uk/software/
                Online shopping from a great selection at Software Store.


                You'll find the ordering process at this site very similar to what
                you've seen at Amazon.com. Your Amazon.com e-mail address and password will be accepted on our European sites.

                Please note that items ordered from the Amazon.co.uk site will be sent from their distribution center in England.

                Thank you for shopping at Amazon.

                ...

                Yeah, thank you too... have to wait till 16th

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                • #9
                  Motherf*cker!

                  Nuff' said....
                  The rivers shall run to the sea,
                  While shadows shall move across the valleys of mountains,
                  While the heavens shall nourish the stars,
                  Always shall your honor and your name and your fame endure.

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                  • #10
                    Yes - exactly the same letter BigLupu - word for word!! And I thought they had made it up just for me! No reply yet to my more specific question re my order. The letter from Amazon US didn't really tell me what I wanted to know nor anybody else either I imagine! So yes, just wait and see!

                    Jan:
                    We shall show mercy but we shall not ask for it

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                    • #11
                      It makes me wonder why I always appear to hear about Amazon's poor profitability. It makes me think that they are like a lot of e-tailers -- "I will make site and they shall come." Its because because of this attitude, which in a lot of ways is insulting to on-line users, that, in part, may have caused a lot of the e-meltdown we have seen of late. Just because you have an e-store versus regular mall store does not give you a carte blanche for writing a new definition of good customer relations and desirable mercantile behaviour. Indeed, the web may breed bad business ethics by its anonmity; businesses are more readily forced to deal with you when you show up "in the flesh' and complain than just hitting "delete" or ignore.

                      My heart goes out to our UK and International Civvers. If its any consolation we know how you feel, some of us were gnashing their teeth waiting for EU over here over last xmas.


                      Z
                      "Capitalism is man exploiting man; communism is just the other way around."

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                      • #12
                        I'm just hoping that they don't notice my order!
                        'No room for human error, and really it's thousands of times safer than letting drivers do it. But the one in ten million has come up once again, and the the cause of the accident is sits, something in the silicon.' - The Gold Coast - Kim Stanley Robinson

                        'Feels just like I can take a thousand miles in my stride hey yey' - Oh, Baby - Rhianna

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                        • #13
                          Thank you for flying Amazon airlines...shame you cancelled your flight, but thank you for flying with us anyway.


                          You have lost my custom for life...and that of my family...that will cost you hundreds

                          P.S do Amazon ship to Hawaii...it is US? Well, Britain is virtually a state of the USA and is closer to the Capital of the USA so surely it is just as easy to ship here.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by kittenOFchaos

                            Well, Britain is virtually a state of the USA and is closer to the Capital of the USA so surely it is just as easy to ship here.


                            Pull your head out of your arse man...and yes they ship to Hawaii
                            "What do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? (1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. (2) Advising the President. (3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin."

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                            • #15
                              you wouldn't say that too my face...not if you wanted to keep a face...and anyway I don't get it? People who make a contract with a company and give over credit card details should get what they signed up for...and as for Amazon losing hundreds of pounds of custom from me and my family -consumer choice means they will. And as for the Uk being virtually an American state...that was in jest.

                              You are a moron stuck in the middle of the Pacific.

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