Royal FAIL

Author: William

9 Apr

I ordered 5 HDDVDs off Amazon US. Why? They’re only $11 now, so why not? I’m not paying £24 for Terminator 3 at my local HMV when I can get it imported for $11 plus a bit of postage.

So…all very well. Placed the order on the 20th March, and they finally arrived today. Almost. See, Royal Mail, being the bastards they are, decided to charge me almost £20 in customs fees. So they put a “you owe us money!1!!!11!!1!” card through our door, which says “come and pay us”…so I had to go and get £20 out the ATM in town, then come all the way back to their depot, get the box from Amazon, and come home.

This is the second time I’ve become extremely annoyed with them, as in December they decided to lose my BluRay burner off eBay which I sold - that was a £100 mistake.

I don’t like them anymore.

Filed under: Entertainment, Life

4 Responses for "Royal FAIL"

Azizam April 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pm 1
I hate that! It sucks. £20 for custom fees, come on! You gotta be kiddin’ me. This is why I like buying things from my local store. Much easier to get, and more trustworthy in my opinion. Better luck next time — or better luck next transport.
William April 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pm 2
Thing is though, those discs cost me around $11 each, and $22 for Transformers….same thing at HMV in the UK would have been around £24 per disc. Hence, the massive saving.
Azizam April 9th, 2008 at 4:48 pm 3
My bad then, I thought you had to pay more than the store in UK. Well anyways still good for you! But yet again, it is a bit annoying that you could have gotten those discs for a really cheap price! But of course…stupid fee..

Better luck next time buying something through the internet.
DeclanTM April 11th, 2008 at 1:16 am 4
LOL’z, import a cat.