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"mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>> "mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>>>A few minutes?? Is that all? That's amazing. but as I said my download took a 
>>>long time because I only have "Lite" high speed. regular high speed is too 
>>>expensive at my provider.. Is VM cable regular high speed, or ultra high 
>>>speed?
>>
>> Yes they have different speeds. When the new upgrades are finished their
>> packages will be 50Mb, 100Mb and 152Mb.
>
>That's pretty good. My internet provider has faster speeds than my Lite of 
>course, but it is too expensive. Lite is usually ok for me, except for 
>downloading but I don't usually download games, but now that a couple of new 
>adventure games are coming out, it will take me a lot longer than it will take 
>you. and part 2 of BS5 will be coming out in another week and that will 
>probably take me 3 hours like part 1 did.

It cam out yesterday:-)

>>> You might remember in the old days here I used to complain about some 
>>> adventure games on Amazon.com I think it was being available in the U.S. for 
>>> sale which I couldn't find in Canada but Amazon.com would not ship to 
>>> Canada. You had the same problem in the UK at the time. Now we can download 
>>> them as long as you watch your "caps" :)
>
>> I actually ordered one of the Tex Murphy games from Canada. It was dirt cheap 
>> but turned out I had to pay the postage at the door (or something like that) 
>> so it ended up not being quite the bargain I thought:-)
>
>I was wondering why you would have to pay postage at the door. Or was it 
>Customs duty or tax? The only reason I can think of that you would have to pay 
>would be if you owed money to the UK Customs if the value was over your Customs 
>exemption. But your exemption I am pretty sure is far more than we have in 
>Canada whic is only a measly $20.00 Do you know what the charges you had to pay 
>were for?

I think it was some sort of duty. Some UK companies used to base themselves 
offshore
(Play.com) so you didn't have to pay tax on things under (I think) £20 but all 
that was stopped
recently.


>I've had a lot of experience through the years sending and getting packages 
>from the US and the UK from individuals and from Amazon.com/Amazon.uk/amazon.ca 
>and Ebay.com, so I have a good idea how much the postage is from and to the U.S 
>and UK who I've mostly dealt with. But I usually only buy items less than 
>$20.00. I only had to pay Customs duty and 13% tax and duty once from an item 
>from the U.K. From the US it would be 13%, no duty. That was paid to the post 
>office as they collect the customs tax for Customs, and a Post office "handling 
>fee".

I dont bother buying from abroad any more. Don't even buy that many games unless
they are bargain bin.

>>>I am getting into the game in BS5. I like it ok. it reminds me of the earlier 
>>>BS games.
>>
>> Yes they went back to the original format. All that box shifting in 4 (was 
>> it?) got a bit tedious. Although when I replayed it a few years back it wasnt 
>> as bad as I remembered it.
>
>I played that boxes one too. I dont remember which one. I didn't mind the boxes 
>too much. there are worse tasks to do in some games. All that moving around 
>boxes reminds me of Twinsens Odyssey, which I thought was a very good game. I 
>replay it now and then . Its adventure/action.quite a cute game.
>

mick