I know many of my readers are American, and maybe if you are this tip won't work for you, but I'm not sure, so maybe it will! Anyway, what I'm going to tell you, especially European people like me who like to buy videogames, is a very simple but useful "advice" that will save you a lot of money.
The standard PS3 videogame price in Europe, if you buy it in a videogame store like most people do (and I used to) is about 70 euros. That can be considered quite expensive. Now, let's check, for example, www.gameseek.net, an online videogame store from the United Kingdom.
In Spain, for example, in a Spanish online videogame store (or, in the example I used, "El Corte Inglés"), the recently released Final Fantasy XIII will cost practically 70 euros, as you may see by this image I print-screened from there:
As you can see, in most European stores the game will cost 70 euros. Now let's check out that site I mentioned before, Gameseek, and check the price for the same game... As you can see, the price is £38, approximately, either for the PS3 or the Xbox 360.
Now let's type "38 pounds to euros" in Google, to make the convertion from pounds to euros. The result is...
This means a difference of 70-42=28 euros, which means you will save 28 euros, a really huge difference, as you can see. Of course, you have to add the mailing costs to that, but still the difference will be around 20 euros per game.
If you're the kind of person that likes to buy more than one game at a time, the savings will be even bigger. By saving 20 euros per game, you'll be saving 40 per pair, 60 per trio, etc... It's a really big difference!
I must admit I haven't tried any other stores besides Gameseek, so that's the only store I can assure you can trust in, but most online UK videogame stores have the same prices as Gameseek, and they should be trustable as well. To pay for the games, you will have to use a credit card, but if you don't have one, or are too young, you could just speak with your parents, explain them how this works and you could just give them the money and buy the games with their card. Still, if you use PayPal and such, there are lots of other payment methods, including debit cards. The games usually take about a week to arrive, by standard mail, and my games have always arrived in prime condition.
I wish Gameseek even paid me for this, but they really don't, I'm just telling you what I've started doing a year ago because it really makes a difference! Also, if you really want to find the lowest price on the market for any game, you can use http://www.best-game-price.co.uk/ to search for the game you're looking for and compare prices in lots of different stores!
If you use the site I mentioned to search for Final Fantasy XIII for the PS3, for example, you'll see you can find it at £34.90, an even cheaper price than Gameseek's!
This might also work for American people, but I don't know because probably in another continent the mailing costs will be bigger and games in America might not be as expensive as in here (I just read they usually cost 60 dollars in the USA, which is ridiculously cheaper than in Europe...).
And that's it for my advice, I'll try to post some of these neat things I find out every now and then so you can save some money and have a happier life!
The standard PS3 videogame price in Europe, if you buy it in a videogame store like most people do (and I used to) is about 70 euros. That can be considered quite expensive. Now, let's check, for example, www.gameseek.net, an online videogame store from the United Kingdom.In Spain, for example, in a Spanish online videogame store (or, in the example I used, "El Corte Inglés"), the recently released Final Fantasy XIII will cost practically 70 euros, as you may see by this image I print-screened from there:
As you can see, in most European stores the game will cost 70 euros. Now let's check out that site I mentioned before, Gameseek, and check the price for the same game... As you can see, the price is £38, approximately, either for the PS3 or the Xbox 360.
Now let's type "38 pounds to euros" in Google, to make the convertion from pounds to euros. The result is...
This means a difference of 70-42=28 euros, which means you will save 28 euros, a really huge difference, as you can see. Of course, you have to add the mailing costs to that, but still the difference will be around 20 euros per game.If you're the kind of person that likes to buy more than one game at a time, the savings will be even bigger. By saving 20 euros per game, you'll be saving 40 per pair, 60 per trio, etc... It's a really big difference!
I must admit I haven't tried any other stores besides Gameseek, so that's the only store I can assure you can trust in, but most online UK videogame stores have the same prices as Gameseek, and they should be trustable as well. To pay for the games, you will have to use a credit card, but if you don't have one, or are too young, you could just speak with your parents, explain them how this works and you could just give them the money and buy the games with their card. Still, if you use PayPal and such, there are lots of other payment methods, including debit cards. The games usually take about a week to arrive, by standard mail, and my games have always arrived in prime condition.
I wish Gameseek even paid me for this, but they really don't, I'm just telling you what I've started doing a year ago because it really makes a difference! Also, if you really want to find the lowest price on the market for any game, you can use http://www.best-game-price.co.uk/ to search for the game you're looking for and compare prices in lots of different stores!
If you use the site I mentioned to search for Final Fantasy XIII for the PS3, for example, you'll see you can find it at £34.90, an even cheaper price than Gameseek's!
This might also work for American people, but I don't know because probably in another continent the mailing costs will be bigger and games in America might not be as expensive as in here (I just read they usually cost 60 dollars in the USA, which is ridiculously cheaper than in Europe...).
And that's it for my advice, I'll try to post some of these neat things I find out every now and then so you can save some money and have a happier life!
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