Not available in Australia... Again.

I just tried to purchase
FINAL FANTASY® XIV: A REALM REBORN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

When asked to choose my country for estimated shipping, lo and behold. Australia is not listed. How does one, fix this?

Amazon.com

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Originally Posted by Valmar

Amazon.com

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_-_ Yes I know that is an option, I just can't understand why I must go through a third party.

Hi Rubieus,

I purchased Before Meteor through this website, and they also have the new soundtrack for sale. It is in Australian dollars, it does take a little while a ship, but overall was good service. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SQEX-20016

I do wish that we had options in the Square Enix store, though.

While It might be more expensive going through Amazon.com, its either that, or wait until they have shipping available to you.

It all depends how long you are willing to wait.

Thank you everyone

Don't worry, it's not available in Switzerland either.

The world according to Japanese businesses: Japan, the US, France, Europe (that's a country near France, I think Angela Merkel's the president), Germany (way up north, snowy all year round with vampires and stuff).

Your country doesn't exist. But don't worry, South Korea exists even less.

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Originally Posted by Rubieus

_-_ Yes I know that is an option, I just can't understand why I must go through a third party.

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Because you live in a backwater country.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Because you live in a backwater country.

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And we're so proud of our backwater ways! AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

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Originally Posted by Kyan

And we're so proud of our backwater ways! AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

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OI OI OI!

(as an Australian you are legally obliged to respond to any triple Aussie call. Failure to do so and you will be shipped off to New Zealand, or worse, Tasmania)

I bought my copy of the Before Meteor soundtrack from Yes Asia. It shows the cost in AUD, but the payment will be in uSD (so may get a foreign currecncy fee on credit card). But on the plus side, you can get free shipping options and i was able to google Yes Asia Coupons to get a few more dollars off.

use cd japan

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Originally Posted by Rubieus

_-_ Yes I know that is an option, I just can't understand why I must go through a third party.

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It's very simple. Because this soundtrack was not licensed for sale in Australia. I'll spare you the long and boring explanation on how international copyright licensing works, but the short version is that no distributor in Australia has yet forked over the licensing fee to SE Japan for the right to distribute the soundtrack within Australia. That is why you will only be able to get it from a third party until an Australian distributor does.

I've been helping my australian friends acquire the CD. A lot of them have encountered this problem and I offered to help an FC mate by having them send it to me in Canada and then I mail it over to them in Australia from here. XP