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Colin. said:
Yeah, I get that on the odd occasion. No idea how they come up with the random postage figure when there is no paid postage option. I just reject and state that as being the reason, then I revive the demand. I'll report it as a bug if it happens again, but I'm sure it must be an issue they're aware of by now.

One time, I was legitimately supposed to pay postage on an item, as there was a postage cost on the site. I went through checkout with no postage cost showing up. At least a bug worked in my favour for a change!
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Cool. Thought it was just me!

Is everyone here still using Flubit? I had one bad experience, have used them again with no problems, but can't decide whether to carry on using them. My demands are on average 10% off, but if you compare that with the loss of Quidco, I seem to be saving maybe £1 which to my mind isn't worth it if there are any problems.
 
Sondar said:
Cool. Thought it was just me!

Is everyone here still using Flubit? I had one bad experience, have used them again with no problems, but can't decide whether to carry on using them. My demands are on average 10% off, but if you compare that with the loss of Quidco, I seem to be saving maybe £1 which to my mind isn't worth it if there are any problems.
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I've only used them once, just t'other day actually. Got an X360 Windows controller for my lovely new pc for £17.10 instead of £19.99 on Amazon. Pretty chuffed with that. Will use them again.
 
Sondar said:
Cool. Thought it was just me!

Is everyone here still using Flubit? I had one bad experience, have used them again with no problems, but can't decide whether to carry on using them. My demands are on average 10% off, but if you compare that with the loss of Quidco, I seem to be saving maybe £1 which to my mind isn't worth it if there are any problems.
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Used them for Last of us (£5 off), DKCR3D (£3 or so off), P4A (£2 or something off).
Not yet messed up an order. Even emailed me the preorder code for TLoU.

Not problems so far. P4A took a while to arrive but TLoU came a day early.
 
Damn, I tried to sweet talk Amazon into changing my silver 3DS to the blue one so I can get it sooner, no luck. They gave me free first class delivery for contacting them though. Heh.
 
Sondar said:
Cool. Thought it was just me!

Is everyone here still using Flubit? I had one bad experience, have used them again with no problems, but can't decide whether to carry on using them. My demands are on average 10% off, but if you compare that with the loss of Quidco, I seem to be saving maybe £1 which to my mind isn't worth it if there are any problems.
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nope, they've screwed me out of a couple of sales, they say they'll give an offer in 48 hours but they didnt, it switched to "coming soon" for a while, they waited out the sale and then offered me a price about £10 higher
 
jimi_dini said:
Wii U Wii U Wii U

for people from Germany:

http://www.mediamarkt.de/mcs/produc...Pack-Limited-Edition,48353,419044,534479.html

Premium Wii U + ZombiU (including Wii U Pro controller) for 244EUR (210pounds)
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And it's 244EUR *again* and it's sold out now

http://www.mediamarkt.de/mcs/produc...d=63&et_cid=4&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1619251

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And the basic Wii U for 179EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/catentry/1619236?et_cid=4&et_lid=63&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1619236

And the regular Premium Wii U for 222EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/catentry/1619244?et_cid=4&et_lid=63&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1619244

And they also sell a red Super Slim PS3 (500GB) for 229EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/mcs/produc...d=63&et_cid=4&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1659291
 
Journey Collector's Edition (PAL) (PS3) is now £14.99 at Base.


Edit: unrelated, but didn't want to double post.

So I just saw Fire Emblem on Zavvi's website for £32.98. Weird, because I got this email (about my undelivered Fire Emblem preorder) about a week ago...

Zavvi on June 6th said:
Hello foobarry81,

Thank you for getting in touch about order xxxxxx.
I am sorry to hear that this did not arrive.
Fire Emblem: Awakening 3D [Games 3DS] is now out of stock and has been removed from our website. I am very sorry for any disappointment this causes.
We will be processing a refund for this item and the money will be returned to your account in 3-5 working days.
If there is anything else that we can do, then please do not hesitate to get in touch and a member of our team will be happy to help.
Kind regards,
Chris
Zavvi.com Customer Service Team
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So they didn't know a week ago that they would get the game back in?
 
foobarry81 said:
£26.96

(ordered Jan 13th btw)
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Maybe they really didn't know if and when it would get into stock again. I asked them 2 weeks ago about "Memento" on BluRay to get back in stock (it was and is 5.50pounds from zavvi - 11pounds for 2, amazon wants 8pounds + postage) and they told me that "yes, but it could take a while". And it's now in stock since 2 or 3 days.
 
jimi_dini said:
Maybe they really didn't know if and when it would get into stock again. I asked them 2 weeks ago about "Memento" on BluRay to get back in stock (it was and is 5.50pounds from zavvi - 11pounds for 2, amazon wants 8pounds + postage) and they told me that "yes, but it could take a while". And it's now in stock since 2 or 3 days.
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That's a possibility, but this is a newly released game, from Nintendo, so it's hardly going to get out of print anytime soon. If it's back in stock now, they must've put in a new order at their suppliers like... a week ago maybe?

Anyway, guess I'm just going to have to cough up a little more now... :-)

zoukka said:
That german Wii U deal is nuts...
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Yeah, if it stays up for a few more days, I might have to drive to the closest German town and pick one up. :-)
 
jimi_dini said:
I heard that they are currently sending out codes again, so I would guess maybe wait a bit.
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Yeah, but I'm going to have to order it pretty soon, because I want my free Nintendo download, and FE was going to be my third game. With average Zavvi delivery times I can't risk holding out much longer, so I'm going to go with Amazon this time, I think.

jimi_dini said:
I just checked, the limited ZombiU edition is sold out now. The others are still available though.
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I was more interested in the 222 euro Premium U.
 
foobarry81 said:
Yeah, but I'm going to have to order it pretty soon, because I want my free Nintendo download, and FE was going to be my third game. With average Zavvi delivery times I can't risk holding out much longer, so I'm going to go with Amazon this time, I think.
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Buy it from base.com then. They ship more expensive items from UK directly and cheaper ones from Switzerland. Same price there. Unless you get free shipping from amazon-uk.

foobarry81 said:
I was more interested in the 222 euro Premium U.
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I'm interested in any Premium U, but I know that they will release white ones soon and I want one, so I have to wait :/
 
jimi_dini said:
Buy it from base.com then. They ship more expensive items from UK directly and cheaper ones from Switzerland. Same price there.



I'm interested in any Premium U, but I know that they will release white ones soon and I want one, so I have to wait :/
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That's the third time that I think about buying a Wii U.
The price is very awesome and Zombie U only costs 30€ at amazon.de right now too.

But... there are no killer games right now and nobody buys a Wii U. I think that I will have spent my money for nothing or that the console gets cheaper.

Hard decision.
 
if they had reduced the price of the 8gig model a bit more (like -80€) i would have bought it.

still some great deals - and i missed all of them :(
 
jimi_dini said:
You're lucky foobarry. I would still have to pay :/ 6 pounds that is.
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We get screwed over badly by our local retailers though, so I guess the free shipping from Amazon UK and Germany (possibly also France) is compensation. :-)

superimposer said:
Has Zavvi improved recently? Or still a lottery when/if you receive your order?
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To me they have been very consistent in delivery over the years. I've always received my orders, and they took 8 days or so to arrive on average.
Only this recent Fire Emblem order went completely wrong. They claim to have refunded me for it though. I haven't checked if they did (will do so next week), but I assume they have.
 
Storm360 said:
From the looks of it, they're more "take forever" than hard, and should be possible working at it with some friends
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I mananged to get them all. The hardest one is "Overseer", the others are not that hard. Hardest "no death" trophy is the crushing one for coop arena. Didn't take too long as well. But you will probably hate the game after getting them all. The treasure ones aren't that awful, but you will have to boost treasure drops with someone (2 controllers for each are required). Otherwise they will take ages.

Superimposer said:
Has Zavvi improved recently? Or still a lottery when/if you receive your order?
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My latest orders took 7/10/8 days.
 
jimi_dini said:
I mananged to get them all. The hardest one is "Overseer", the others are not that hard. Hardest "no death" trophy is the crushing one for coop arena. Didn't take too long as well. But you will probably hate the game after getting them all. The treasure ones aren't that awful, but you will have to boost treasure drops with someone (2 controllers for each are required). Otherwise they will take ages.
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Thanks for the Treasure Drop tip, If it can be boosted with F2P MP I have two PS3s.

Your platinum list is insane btw, my 15 seems so average now
 
Storm360 said:
Your platinum list is insane btw, my 15 seems so average now
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It's also a testament of how frustrating and infuriating this whole trophy thing really is...

Red Dead Redemption (90/91 trophies)

DLC 3: Liars and Cheats Pack
9 of 10 Trophies

Pa-Pa-Pa-Poker Ace
In a full Multiplayer Poker game, beat the table when blinds are at maximum

(Sorry to remind you, jimi_dini. ;-) This is just the type of things why I don't even try going after achievements.)
 
foobarry81 said:
Red Dead Redemption (90/91 trophies)

DLC 3: Liars and Cheats Pack
9 of 10 Trophies

Pa-Pa-Pa-Poker Ace
In a full Multiplayer Poker game, beat the table when blinds are at maximum
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Tried to boost that, but the ones that got the trophy didn't continue boosting :/ Without boosting that one is quite impossible.

Injustice Gods Among Us (PS3) - 24pounds
Injustice Gods Among Us (WiiU) - 24pounds
Saints Row 3 Full Package (PS3) - 15pounds
Saints Row 3 Full Package (360) - 15pounds
Dark Souls Prepare To Die (PS3) - 16pounds

+

Sinister on BluRay 7pounds
Babel on BluRay 7pounds

@ zavvi

Storm360 said:
Thanks for the Treasure Drop tip, If it can be boosted with F2P MP I have two PS3s.
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Yes, that's possible. Although you need 4 controllers then and 2 humans, because the game kicks idle players (best way is hunter arena, 2 controllers vs 2 controllers - drop rate is much higher that way when you kill the human opponents over and over and also go for treasure chests when possible). Otherwise you just need a boosting partner with 2 controllers.
 
Thanks foobarry, Puppeteer pre-ordered!

jimi_dini said:
And the basic Wii U for 179EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/catentry/1619236?et_cid=4&et_lid=63&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1619236

And the regular Premium Wii U for 222EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/catentry/1619244?et_cid=4&et_lid=63&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1619244

And they also sell a red Super Slim PS3 (500GB) for 229EUR
http://www.mediamarkt.de/mcs/produc...d=63&et_cid=4&et_sub=RadikalReduziert-1659291
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There is a new MediaMarkt opening in town pretty soon, hope they put prices like that to celebrate their opening lol.
 
UK Gaffers, anyone preordering PS4 on the highstreet? Can't decide whether to go online or not. Went gamestation (when it was in a blockbusters...) for ps3 but haven't gone day1 on anything since.

Apologies if wrong thread.
 
Azuardo said:
Guys. WowHD - trustworthy? Reading a thread on Hot UK Deals that says avoid them, and how they used to ship counterfeit CDs from Asia.
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Ordered 3 times with them.

- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box: delivery time 7 days, game was sealed with Nintendo ribbon.
- Professor Layton and the Lost Future: delivery time 9 days, game was sealed, but no Nintendo ribbon. Club Nintendo card was missing. I contacted Wow HD. Support was helpful, but said the game was brand new. I insisted it wasn't. They let me send the game back and refunded me to my cc account. Even refunded me 6 euros for shipping (in the form of a store voucher though).
- Gravity Rush: delivery time 4 days. The game looked brand new and seems to be a genuine copy too.
 
Loctope said:
UK Gaffers, anyone preordering PS4 on the highstreet? Can't decide whether to go online or not. Went gamestation (when it was in a blockbusters...) for ps3 but haven't gone day1 on anything since.

Apologies if wrong thread.
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No point risking it. Online order deliveries are pretty reliable. Go with Shopto, they use DPD for delivery, can't really go wrong with that.
 
foobarry81 said:
Ordered 3 times with them.

- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box: delivery time 7 days, game was sealed with Nintendo ribbon.
- Professor Layton and the Lost Future: delivery time 9 days, game was sealed, but no Nintendo ribbon. Club Nintendo card was missing. I contacted Wow HD. Support was helpful, but said the game was brand new. I insisted it wasn't. They let me send the game back and refunded me to my cc account. Even refunded me 6 euros for shipping (in the form of a store voucher though).
- Gravity Rush: delivery time 4 days. The game looked brand new and seems to be a genuine copy too.
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Thanks for info. Was passing the Pikmin 3 £30 deal on to a friend but he asked if they were reliable. I wasn't sure. Will let him decide based on this.
 
Azuardo said:
Guys. WowHD - trustworthy? Reading a thread on Hot UK Deals that says avoid them, and how they used to ship counterfeit CDs from Asia.
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They are legit (at least for the stuff that I ordered), but sometimes it takes 1 month till they actually ship. And then it may take another 2-4 weeks for the order to arrive. They sell a few Hong Kong BluRays for superb prices (e.g. Dragon Tiger Gate).
 
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