British/Euro shops shipping to US

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Hey guys,

I'm looking to pick up the PAL version of a game (Demon's Souls, in this instance), can anyone recommend any reputable shops in Britain or the continent which are willing to ship to the US?  I know I've purchased a couple games from British shops previously (Electroplankton and something else), but I can't for the life of me recall their names, and looking on Amazon and at the other usual suspects, I can't seem to locate someone who will mail here.

Thanks!

 
GAME is a big UK video game store chain, and it looks like they ship internationally. Maybe this was one of the stores you were thinking of?
I did see them in searching, thank you--the only thing is their listing is for 40 quid (before shipping), which seems just absurd for a seven year old game. I feel like it should be half that, I'm hoping there is someplace more reasonable.

 
Ok, so just to follow up on this on the off-chance anyone is in the same type of boat and happens to read this thread, let me describe what I found.  Many sellers had the game posted for reasonable prices (20-25 quid range, before shipping), on Amazon's UK site and elsewhere, but literally none of them were willing to ship to the US.  The sellers who were, be it on Ebay, Amazon or at other stores, seemed to universally want 40-50 quid, and another 10-15 to ship (i.e. about $80 total, for a game that has been a PS+ freebie and which presently sells on the NA store for $9.99).  For an older disc-based game which is decidedly not rare, I found this obscene.  I got onto the website for the PSN store for the UK and found they were selling the digital copy for 16 quid, no fuss no muss.  I created a login on PSN's UK website, using the address of a Nando's in Edinburgh that I pulled off Google.  Contrary to some sources on the web, I found I was not able to create an account using the same email I had for a NA account, but no biggie, I used another.  The next step was purchasing; unfortunately you cannot use your credit/debit card OR Paypal if you're based Stateside, I tried and was rejected.  I attempted to buy a 20-quid PSN store card from Amazon's UK site and was, laughably, rejected based on geographic restrictions.  So I instead went to Play Asia's website and purchased a pair of 10 quid codes, which were delivered to my email within three minutes.  I entered them into my new UK account on the PSN UK website, purchased the game, created a new user on my PS3 at home over lunch and logged into the Store, where I promptly found DS on my downloads list.  It was 45% downloaded before I left to return to the office 40 minutes later.

TL;DR: if it's available digitally, save yourself $30 or 40 and just create a PSN user in that region and be done with it.  

 
I ordered once from www.gameseek.co.uk/  (I don't know how to make it clickable.)

It took a long time and probably wasn't the cheapest route.  They took my American Paypal money without any problems that I noticed.

 
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