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It gets better. Well, in my view it does:
| Quote: | Is the Best Price Guarantee applicable?
No, the Harvey Norman best price guarantee is not available on direct imports. |
In retail or sales, the retailer or re-seller is normally willing to do the best for customer. But after reading that, I guess Harvey Norman doesn't wish to go the extra mile for the customer.
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| toasty_T wrote: | Check this out
| wrote: | How long will my game take to be delivered?
Games will usually be delivered to metropolitan city address at any time between 7 to 14 working days from date of dispatch. This timeframe may be affected during any peak postal times during the year (i.e., Christmas/Easter) or during British/Australian public holidays, our games are at fantastic prices and will be well worth the wait.
Country locations and remote areas may take between 10 - 21 working days from date of dispatch.
If your game has not arrived within 21 days from the date of dispatch, please use the contact us link at www.harveynormandirectimport.com |
Not even willing to import games in first and build up an inventory. Lazy **** |
Importing the games first would push up the prices, both because of overheads (warehouse costs etc) and GST (they'd have to pay GST on their shipments into the country).
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I don't trust Harvey Norman, all they do is try to rip people off. If you have to wait 2+ weeks get items from this online store then I'm sticking with Ozgameshop.
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I think Gerry Harvey has kind of shot himself in the foot by telling people not to buy games at his brick and mortar stores. I really don't see this kind of thing taking off unless the shipping is free and they ship from within Australia.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Direct-Import
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| A13x wrote: | | Direct-Import |
Didn't fit in the thread title space.
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| Pagan's Mind wrote: | | Well he's not the first to do this... plenty of Australian online stores like Dungeon Crawl sell imported games for a discount. |
dungeon crawl isn't known for its cheap pricing tho 
| Cyph wrote: | | HOPEFULLY distributors and publishers here will take notice. I'm sure JB will be putting up their import business now that Harvey has. |
they already have tho its " gray imports" 
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| mikezilla2 wrote: | | Cyph wrote: | | HOPEFULLY distributors and publishers here will take notice. I'm sure JB will be putting up their import business now that Harvey has. |
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Well, it's called "Direct Import" as well - http://www.jbhifi.com.au/direct-import/. Cyph may have been suggesting JB will expand it to include games.
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^ Yeah sorry, that's what I meant. They had a press release a while back saying they were thinking of doing it.
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you see that fat old greedy hypocrite could just drop their games section instead of going the import route. You might as well just order from ebay/ozgame if that's what you're going to do.
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All he has to do is drop his prices to reasonable levels instead of ******** about how everyone's going online. Gee whiz, I wonder why?!
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Not sure why people harp on HN's game prices that much. Their catalog games are a ripoff but their new releases are generally amongst the best prices.
I bought Skyrim from their for $78 and then got them to price match JB the day after for $63...
I also bought the Uncharted 3 special edition from there for $78 which was the lowest you could get it for...
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