Since at least the beginning of this week, Amazon.co.uk lists every PC or console game as “This item can only be delivered within the UK”. Other people are also complaining about it.
I’ve bought dozens of games from them during the last few years, and I had been mostly satisfied with their service, but if this is really a policy change (and not a temporary error in their site), it will be very annoying. There are other stores in Europe, but few have such a large catalog as Amazon.
I buy most of my games online, since I my two consoles are from Nintendo, and Portugal is an anti-Nintendo country; stores seem to think that “Nintendo is for kids”, and skip a lot of games, not to mention having them months behind the rest of Europe.
The French and German Amazons are not an option, since i don’t want games in French or German (I wouldn’t even want them in Portuguese, my native tongue. Games, like anything related to computers, should be in English, thankyouverymuch.).
Game.net may be an option. But let’s see if Amazon has really changed their policy (their “we ship to…” page still lists most of Europe as destinations for games) or not.
BTW, Amazon.com (the US one) has long shipped games to the US only. Maybe .co.uk is following suit? If so… I thought one of the great things of the Internet was that you could order products from anywhere; why is Amazon moving backwards? 
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I didn’t noticed that, but if that’s true .. it just sucks, I so much liked their hellish discounts (I bought F.E.A.R and Quake4 for €20 , and liked it
) …
I’ve emailed them, but I only got generic responses, as if I was asking about PAL/NTSC formats. They really should improve their parser AI.
Improve = Obliterate, you mean
I don’t buy a lot of games, but the last ones I brought, I used SendIt.com (www.sendit.com). Everything worked ok. Still cheaper than buying a game in Portugal.
When me and my friends buy games online we usually order from CD-Wow : http://www12.cd-wow.com/
Amazon.co.uk was good for those discounts that David mentioned, though
Well, aslong as they continue to ship DVDs to Portugal, i’m happy
Ughh, forgot to mention, we usually order from cd-wow cause it’s “free delivery worldwide”
Matters have, apparently, been resolved, and I now see “Available for delivery to the UK and most countries in Europe.”
Cool
Indeed, everything seems to be fine now. Still, I wonder what kind of bug took more than 2 weeks to be fixed…