Gogamer.com - new (cheaper!) shipping options

Sponge · Post by **Sponge** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:25 am

Finally! Gogamer now offers lower priced shipping options:

* US only, 1-2 games for only $1.99
* US only w/insurance, 1-2 games, $2.99
* 2nd Day Fedex is still an option for $5.99

This makes a lot of sense to me. I could care less about getting games in 2 days and $6 shipping was too steep for me unless I was getting a great deal on the game itself. Now, however, I can do all my game shopping there.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:51 am

Excellent.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:19 pm

Dude!

Although the 2-day was always on time.

Lassr · Post by **Lassr** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:49 pm

That's great. They always have some good deals but unfortuneatly most of the time the deal was not a deal after adding the S&H.

Koz · Post by **Koz** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:35 pm

Great to hear.

The $5.99 option always seemed a bit steep, but damn, those games arrived at freakishly fast speeds (once ordered a game at 5pm and had it in my hands by 11am the next day). I just hope the US Mail isn't too slow and everything makes it one piece.

Exrod · Post by **Exrod** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:36 pm

Freezer-TPF- wrote:Excellent.

Ditto. With all the awesome releases coming up this is great timing.

Mithridates · Post by **Mithridates** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:10 pm

Good news. I haven't ordered from them in awhile, but with the cheap shippng I'm more likely to give them a shot.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:49 am

way cool

wankerjr · Post by **wankerjr** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:08 pm

Awesome.

Papageno · Post by **Papageno** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:52 pm

Hooray! I always hated having to pay a minimum of 6 bucks for shipping. I always felt I had to buy more stuff to make it "worth it." Plus having stuff come by mail is just easier for me-- no hassle with not being at home when the FedEx guy comes etc.

Albion · Post by **Albion** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:03 pm

Finally some decent shipping prices!!

Sponge · Post by **Sponge** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:19 pm

Papageno wrote:Hooray! I always hated having to pay a minimum of 6 bucks for shipping. I always felt I had to buy more stuff to make it "worth it." Plus having stuff come by mail is just easier for me-- no hassle with not being at home when the FedEx guy comes etc.

That exactly how I felt which translated to fewer purchases overall. Now I can spend to my heart's content.

Eliot · Post by **Eliot** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:31 pm

This was a long time in coming - delighted they finally did this. They have my business back.

knob · Post by **knob** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:10 pm

GoGamer.com has always been my place to look first and foremost if I was buying a game online. So this is great news.

RookieCAF · Post by **RookieCAF** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:50 am

Yea, This is cool, I always tried to make myself buy 2 or 3 games to justify the six bucks

dangerballs · Post by **dangerballs** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:52 am

Yes. These new prices are excellent. I bought Bloodline last week on preorder because of these new prices. With the old price, it would have been the same as Best Buy, but instead I saved $5. Good deal.

jonsauce · Post by **jonsauce** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:19 am

I like the prices, but it seems the games are taking 2 weeks or more to get to me. Well I assume that because it has been 2 weeks since I ordered and I haven't gotten my first game yet

Hopefully it'll be here soon.

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:37 am

jonsauce wrote:I like the prices, but it seems the games are taking 2 weeks or more to get to me. Well I assume that because it has been 2 weeks since I ordered and I haven't gotten my first game yet Hopefully it'll be here soon.

I've never had problems getting my games quickly and on time from them. You're not talking about pre-orders are you? If not, maybe you should contact them.

Head · Post by **Head** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:19 pm

Looks like they're back to the old shipping method. I don't see the $1.99 option anymore.

Grafvolluth · Post by **Grafvolluth** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:36 pm

Head wrote:Looks like they're back to the old shipping method. I don't see the $1.99 option anymore.

Still there for me, its only applicable if you have 1-2 games.

Rich in KCK · Post by **Rich in KCK** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:37 pm

Head wrote:Looks like they're back to the old shipping method. I don't see the $1.99 option anymore.

I just checked and it is still there when I went to the shopping cart screen, you did scroll down right to below where it says Have a Coupon? and Ready to Checkout? The options for shipping are under there.

Head · Post by **Head** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:11 pm

hmmm, I should have checked when I was at 2 games in the shopping cart.

Greggy_D · Post by **Greggy_D** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:29 pm

I've used the 1.99 option 3 times now for games I wasn't in a hurry to get. Thank God I wasn't in a hurry because they've taken an average of 12 days to show up. I HATE USPS Media Mail.

If you want the game now, throw in the extra 4 bucks for FedEx.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:30 am

Greggy_D wrote:Thank God I wasn't in a hurry because they've taken an average of 12 days to show up. I HATE USPS Media Mail. If you want the game now, throw in the extra 4 bucks for FedEx.

i've actually had pretty good luck with Media Mail so far...i guess experiences are really mixed though. more recently, i ordered Call of Duty from EBGames.com on black friday...it shipped via Media Mail on saturday and was in my mailbox on monday. i was more than a little surprised, but very pleased.

Rich in KCK · Post by **Rich in KCK** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:50 pm

disarm wrote:
Greggy_D wrote:Thank God I wasn't in a hurry because they've taken an average of 12 days to show up. I HATE USPS Media Mail. If you want the game now, throw in the extra 4 bucks for FedEx.
i've actually had pretty good luck with Media Mail so far...i guess experiences are really mixed though. more recently, i ordered Call of Duty from EBGames.com on black friday...it shipped via Media Mail on saturday and was in my mailbox on monday. i was more than a little surprised, but very pleased.

I ordered HL2 on Thanksgiving and chose the media mail option, I still don't have it 9 days later but I was expecting that and don't mind the wait.