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Finding the cheapest prices for PC Games in the US
Matthew Anderson:
Hey All,
So, I went looking for a copy of the pc game Blood Bowl : Legendary Edition (hold the laughs) and due to a strange snafu I ended up on Amazon's UK site where the game was available to me for about 10 quid which is about 16 american dollars. I then noted I was at England's site and tried to find it in America -- 40 bucks everywhere! I mean everywhere!!! So I started thinking about importing it and quickly discovered a few things; First AmazonUK doesn't seem to export games to America, and second you lucky blokes in the UK have a site called http://www.best-game-price.co.uk/ which seems to do a pretty phenomenal job looking up game prices and letting you know how to find a good price on stuff.
What I want to know is... is there a comparable site in America? Pricewatch, price grabber, google shopping are all leaving me cold compared to the narrow focus of the british site. I took a look at Cheap Ass Gamer but it was only pulling from a very small list of sources too. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Dartful Dodger:
http://www.ebay.com/
BadMouth:
http://product.half.ebay.com/Blood-Bowl-PC-2010/56279233&tg=info
$3 + $3.50 shipping - brand new
didn't check elsewhere, might be cheaper on fleabay itself
EDIT: oops, stuck the cheapest one in my cart to see what shipping was and it disappeared from the page.
deleted it from my cart, should be back soon.
Matthew Anderson:
Hey Thanks for the input Dartful
and BadMouth for going that extra mile and looking it up on half.ebay . . I had heard of the site but never used it....
Actually, truth be told I scored a copy of Blood Bowl from an Amazon seller for like 8 bucks so I was covered. What I was really looking for was a suggested site for finding "the best" prices on any random PC game in America. You see, whenever I run into a problem as suggested above I start to smell a little opportunity. Problem is, I generally start re-inventing a wheel and probably should not have bothered. So I was hoping someone had a line on a brilliant site I could do all my comparison shopping at.
Which does not appear to exist in America... <sniffs the air expectantly>...
Vigo:
While it is flawed, you can always do a google shopping search, at least for new games. It will provide the cost and shipping from a number of retailers and even some ebay sellers. It is not limited to video games either.
Here is the result that google shopping came up with for blood bowl:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=blood+bowl+pc&cid=5242436732411325628&os=sellers#scoring=p
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