World Wide Purchasing & Distribution

[swiss]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Our retailers recently had the hide to also try and get local taxes added to international online purchases... If you cant compete in a global economy in retail with the advent of online sales its time for some of these people to think about a new vocation in life!

Have you ever run a business which has to compete with a huge online market?
Having a warehouse in the middle of nowhere and running a homepage has quite a different cost structure compared to a local shop with employees in the business district of your town.
You can never - ever compete with online prices.
Your local software shop's prices have to be higher than than the ones of the eshops, and you have find a way to justify them; service f.i..
How many computer shops with a real world shop where in your area 10years ago, how many today?

Sure trying to tax esales is cheap(and wrong), still you have to understand their position - in the end the consumer loses too, as there won't be any local shops left.


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Sprache Deutsch (language German)

That's why I wondered if they really press two versions.
Most games sold over here are multi language(they just dont mention the language option on the cover).

Originally Posted by ghodan

Then reading about bol.ch already having it for pre-order i have send a email to the customer service of bol.com and got this reply:

Wow - the swiss replied in Dutch?