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Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5

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From: Mary
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:11
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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:-)

Yes, but where is part 2 available from?  :)  - As I said I got my part 1 on 
Steam, but I don't see part 2 there. I think its supposed to be available 
there on April 22 or so. Did you get part 2 from Revelation as you live in 
the UK?

>>> 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.

Thats more than we get. you said it was dirt cheap - which to me means 
around $10.00 >:) You can download them cheap from Gog cheap.

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

There hasn't been any adventure games to buy for several years anyway, 
unless you play other games -PG, combat, etc.
BTW, Ebay has a fairly new Global shipping program - to most countries in 
the world, where you can buy a lot of products which can be shipped from the 
U.S. the shipping is high but I bought a box set of DVD's recently on the 
GSP and the total cost even with high shipping cost is still a lot less than 
I would pay for the same box set at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca or anywhere else 
where I am.

How is Moebius?

Mary





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Subject: Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5
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