sociopharm02

I also got the international charge on my account. Small price to pay for a deal this good, but I still wish it didn't happen.

Double_Oh_7

Wow... bilingual cases, hidden fees, high shipping. You guys will put up with a lot for a "bargain."

The Cow

Or in my case, no bilingual cases (that wouldn't bother me anyway), no hidden fees, and free shipping. Yeah, I put up with that.

GenPion

Same here. There were no problems at all. Both my orders have already shipped and the transactions seem to have gone smoothly.

Bob_F1

The bilingual cases on some of the titles are not a big deal for many buyers. I don't mind them. And replacement cover art is often available as a free download. The actual discs inside the cases are identical to the US releases.

The "hidden fees" are being charged by the buyer's credit card company, not iNetvideo. These fees, typically 1% to 3% of the total cost, can be avoided by paying through Paypal.

The recent free shipping promotion resulted in some incredible prices for new HD-DVDs. $5.99 shipped for brand new HD-DVDs? Where else can you find prices like that?

And there's no sales tax on these purchases.

Everyone will have to make their own call as to what constitutes a bargain. And I understand that not everyone is happy with the bilingual cover art. But, for me, this recent sale was absolutely a bargain.

kenbuzz

And not to sound overly defensive, but even with the high shipping fees ($4.95 for first title, $2.00 each additional), it's still a good deal if you buy more than 1 or 2. And when the deal started with ALL of the titles ringing-up for $5.99, it was quite easy to get 6-10 to dilute the shipping to 2.30-2.50 per title. Brand new HDs for under $8.50 apiece shipped = a slam dunk.

kyle

If they are charging in CAD$, then Paypal will charge a conversion fee as well. The only way you won't pay a fee is if they charge in US$.

Bob_F1

The free shipping promotion was run through their US site and the prices were in US dollars.

TANK

I also used Paypal and there was no mention of any International Transaction Fee until it appeared on my bank account.

if200

I tried everyway suggested on this thread as well as the one on the avs thread and did the live chat. Anyway was only going to order 7 or 8 titles and ended up getting them from deep discount for $9.50 a piece. I appreciate the help that everyone provides on these forums. Thanks

Bob_F1

That's very interesting. I just checked my credit card online statement and there was no transaction fee charged. The total listed matched my iNetvideo invoice.

Did you use a bank account funded Paypal payment? Did the transaction fee show up as a standalone charge?

mwcelentano

Went through online chat and was told to resubmit my order and I wouldn't be charged shipping, even though it shows up on the page (was a cc error in the original order they never let me know about)......double checked to make sure NO shipping charges.

As I thought, this morning look up my credit card transactions......charged for shipping.

Hopefully they can straighten this up via email or something. I now love getting my customer support from India or the Philippines....as it seems they got more skills than Canadians

GenPion

Could you be charged the way I was charged? The discount applied on my items just fine, bit instead of subtracting from the shipping cost, it subtracted from the price of the HD-DVD's and then listed the shipping charge as normal. But everything in both orders was A-OK. They charged me the right amount both times.

TANK

The Paypal total was one item and about 5 days later that fee was added as a different charge to the bank account.

I used my PayPal account which bills/uses my debit card from Bank Of America.

Bob_F1

Thanks for the additional information. What was the fee in percentage terms of your order total?

bunkaroo

Well hearing about the bilingual cases plus inet's spamming of me with "payment not yet received" messages despite me sending them a message about it, I'm glad I didn't go through with the transaction. More for you guys!

monkey

Order shipped, no charge to my card yet.

DVD Polizei

Bilingual cases aren't so bad. I actually thought they would be annoying, but now, I just glance over the font sizes and colors and I instantly know what movie I'm looking at. Not a big deal at all.

No hidden fees so far, and I've placed around 7 orders. Recently, I got free shipping on three orders, so the shipping wasn't high either. Also, no cases have been damaged in transit, which I'm surprised considering they only ship them in bubble mailers.

Overall, I'm significantly impressed. I can't explain why others have had problems, but considering the amount of orders they probably received, there were bound to be some who experienced problems.

kenbenobi

Most banks charge 3% for international transactions. That's what my fee was (even though this shouldn't be considered international). Although I think it's ridiculous, since this was from their US website, an easy way to rationalize it to yourself is to say you paid 3% tax. It's cheaper than most state taxes. 3% isn't that bad...

TANK

3% of the total was the amount of the fee.

Bob_F1

Thank you both for the info.

mwcelentano

Nah, overall cost jumped by 20+ from 60 something, to 80 something.

Meh. still a good deal, but hopefully they can correct it. Got the few hd-dvd's that I was really wanting. We'll see.

D_N_G

New Sale!!! they dropped a bunch of titles to 3.99 + 20%off ship starting today at 4pm to the 16th

Infrared Sight

Sweet. Picked up a couple titles for the new sale. Thanks.

GenPion

The shipping kind of kills the deal though... the Free Shipping deal was better if there were enough titles for people to be interested in. Certainly, there was for me. I placed two very large orders with them. If the shipping was FREE or considerably cheaper I would buy Talk to Me but as it stands now the price is basically the same as it is on Deep Discount with the 20% off sale. In fact - it's even more expensive with Inetvideo if you pay for insurance. Go figure.