Do not trust them!

[lexin]

I've been selling a few old PS2 and 3 games on ebay. The ones I've got listed there are the ones which didn't sell the first time around. If they don't sell the second, they're going in the bin.

Come to the time when I have to package them up, and put postage on, and I decided to have a go with the online postage calculator rather than walk all the way to the post office. I'm just that idle.

First up I try the one on PayPal. That would have charged me over £4 for postage on games which weigh around 150g including packaging. I thought, 'That seems a lot.' So I click on over to Royal Mail, which, after fiddling about (because it's a very fiddly system they have over there) charges me a much more reasonable 92p. Or was it 93? Anyway, under a £. For the same weight and size game.

In fact, I can't find anything on the Royal Mail site which is approximately £4 – it's either a teeny 90-odd pence, a couple of quid or right up to £7 should I want to insure a game for £50. Which, obviously, I don't.

And the moral of that story, best beloved, is do not trust the postage calculator on PayPal. Not that any of you would have.

Comments

[montanaharper]

If you don't get any nibbles on them at the end of the auction period, would you be willing to sell four of them (the LotR/Hobbit/PotC ones) to someone across the pond? Because I'm still running with a PS2 (just call me old-school *g*) and wouldn't mind playing around with those.

[lexin]

Yes, of course, but would they work? They're PAL, and I seem to recall PS2 games are region specific. But I could be wrong about that.

[montanaharper]

I guess I'll have to check that out. It never occurred to me that the game would be region-specific, since it's just code. I figured it was the consoles. I'll get back to you.

ETA: Okay, so that's out. I'm not entirely sure why it would be necessary for Sony to region-lock discs, but apparently they do. I was under the impression that console games were more like their computer counterparts: platform specific, but otherwise interchangeable. Guess not. :-(

[lexin]

PS3 games are supposed to be not region specific (as far as I recall) but I've heard that there are region questions with them, too. Bloody Sony.