What makes you annoyed?

[Boatbuilder]

Why order from the US, Wolfgang when you can get it from Amazon.de?

https://www.amazon.de/Fantasy-Flight-Ga ... a+new+dawn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Wolfgang]

I had ordered the Perry Mason DVDs on Amazon, so it's also not that reliable, either. I had tried a reliable shop (according to ebay).

[Boatbuilder]

Why order from the US, Wolfgang when you can get it from Amazon.de?

https://www.amazon.de/Fantasy-Flight-Ga ... a+new+dawn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I had ordered the Perry Mason DVDs on Amazon, so it's also not that reliable, either. I had tried a reliable shop (according to ebay).

I guess with the DVD's that was a seller on Amazon shipping from the US then. The link for the game is from Amazon as the detail as of 'now' translates as:

Free Shipping. details
Delivery Tuesday, 18 Dec .: Order within 21 hours and 28 minutes via 1-day delivery at checkout. See details.

In stock.

Sale and shipping by Amazon. Gift wrapping available.

Interesting to note that since my original post, the price has increased by €0.39 to €50.38.

[aminmec]

Can anybody please enlighten why in some 1997 editions of the classic covers Famous Five ..the pre index page prints -"Text copyright c Enid Blyton" while in some it's -" Text copyright c Chorion " .What's the difference ..Thanks

[Wolfgang]

Having to go to the Customs' office when ordering from a company located in the EU.
The Perry Mason DVDs couldn't be declared by the parcel service because essential information was missing. They are an import from the USA. Additionally I had to pay 19% taxes... I asked the seller (more or less) politely if this is the usual way. Let's see what their answer will be.

[Katharine]

Hope you enjoy the DVDs now they are here Wolfgang.

[Wolfgang]

I will see, Katharine, I will see. At least I will get a refund of the taxes I paid, which was about 43€.

[Katharine]

Ouch, that's a lot of tax.

[pete9012S]

Hope you get reimbursed Wolfgang - that amount could go towards a new hard drive?

Regards

Pete

[Wolfgang]

The new hard drive arrived yesterday. I've already started copying data from my BR-disks, but as I said, it takes time, it's a matter of time...

[pete9012S]

Do you use 3.0 USB speed yet Wolfgang?
Two of my three external back up 2TB hard disks are capable of 3.0 usb but all of my pc's are still 2.0 USB

[Wolfgang]

My two newest harddrives support USB 3.0, my retired PC, my Internet PC and my new gaming/working PC as well. But admittedly I don't use them that much. Much more important was the upgrade of my LAN-System from 100MBit to 1GBit about two years ago.

[pete9012S]

Wow - that's quite a jump in capacity Wolgang!

[Wolfgang]

I don't think so, Pete; it seems that updates on Local network infrastructure use the factor ten: from 10 to 100, from 100 to 1000. I haven't seen a network card offering 200MBit or 500...

[Wolfgang]

On Friday I received a message from Amazon about a product I bought in 2012. They were warning about overheating, a warning that seemed plausible to me because the power supply contact in the devide had become too hot and some of the plastic had molten so it's a bit tricky now to get the device to run again.
The official site looks good enough, I had checked out in advance if there was a chance of a hoax side. On this official site they give three URLs (depending on the country) and ask the people to get in touch. Unfortunately these three URLs don't exist .