How trustworthy are sites like Ebay, Amazon etc?

[Forward Observer]

Your link doesn't work, but I checked Amazon and the best price I found was $39.92 with free shipping from Amazon. Looking at their associate listings, the best I found was $38 including shipping, but the customer satisfaction ratings were varied--some low as 94%

However, on EBay I found it, also factory sealed new, for $27.69 plus $3.99 shipping. This seller specializes in game sales and has a sales history of 6700 transactions with 100% positive feedback--far better than most of the Amazon associate sellers.

EBay on line game store

One just has to look at all the particulars and simply use a little common sense.

[Beskar]

Your link doesn't work, but I checked Amazon and the best price I found was $39.92 with free shipping from Amazon. Looking at their associate listings, the best I found was $38 including shipping, but the customer satisfaction ratings were varied--some low as 94%

However, on EBay I found it, also factory sealed new, for $27.69 plus $3.99 shipping. This seller specializes in game sales and has a sales history of 6700 transactions with 100% positive feedback--far better than most of the Amazon associate sellers.

EBay on line game store

One just has to look at all the particulars and simply use a little common sense.

Sounds great if the fact Empire:Total War is currently on Steam for $15 at the moment with no need to wait for shipping.

[Forward Observer]

Beskar,

I do realize that one can download it much cheaper, but many still like to have a disk---plus a manual and the other paper ephemera (as crappy as it is!)----and even though one still has to activate the game through Steam, a 12 gig footprint game like Empire can be installed on your hard drive with a disk in a mere fraction of the time it would take to download---unless one has a really super broadband service. If one were on dial-up--forget it.

Cheers