Cheap games at Amazon UK

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bargain, cheap

Amazon [UK] seems to be getting some good deals on board games – they obviously have the buying power to get a good bulk discount, which is why you see books well below RRP, but many retailers only look at games of the roll-n-move variety, or are willing to deal only in low quantities (so don’t usually sell much below RRP). Amazon has sold a wide range of “good games” but many have been through partner links, so actually having games sold directly, at discount, and free postage makes them attractive to those entering the hobby.

The Rio Grande Games version of Power Grid went on promotion at £19.27 with free postage and soon sold out. However, its now back to which we could guess maybe they bought limited stocks to see how it went and because it sold so fast, they’ve secured greater quantities. The RRP of this game is £34.99 and whilst some online games shops will beat the RRP, and even beat RRP once postage has been included, sub-£20 including postage is a whole new level.

Amazon have now secured quantities of Carcassonne, which they have sold before, but now have it for £11.99 with a free postage option, so saving £8 on the RRP of £19.99. I have the pre-river Carcassonne and recently bought the River-I expansion for under £4  including postage. If I hadn’t got the expansion I would have jumped at this offer, but now I have an option for Christmas presents for those casual gamers who seemed to enjoy playing Carcassonne.

Logo Design

WordPress comes with some standard themes, which is nice, but at the very least its good (in my opinion) to give it a bit of personalisation – one easy option is to replace the header image. So I went about this task; first I looked at boardgame related images and found a shot of some meeples that I decided to use, then I thought to add the blog username, 2boardgame, to it. I had the idea of flaming text as a friend had wanted me to do another image with flames on – so off a-googling I did go and found a tutorial at http://www.photoshop-dragon.com on how to do it in Photoshop. So an hour or so my new logo was born

Hello world!

Do people have all-encompassing blogs or do they split them up? I use  wordpress.org blog software on my narrowboat domain which I do talk about non-boating stuff, mainly deviating onto tech stuff, but what about boardgames? I had a canal based Twitter ID twitter.com/canals that I did start talking about boardgames on, but then decided a second ID for my boardgames stuff was conceived and 2Boardgame was born. The username came out of much deliberation that Boardgame was already taken. Could I have something boardgame related? I went through various combinations, some were available and some were taken. A short twitter name can be good as it means there’s more characters available when people send you an @reply. However you have to ensure the name isn’t nonsensical like Bgames, BoardG, IplayBG, bgme (well they aren’t nonsensical, but unlikely to appear in searches) so I wanted boardgame with minimal extra characters – I almost appended UK then decided to prepend the number 2 (to mean “to” – yes its obvious, but if I didn’t state it, I’m sure someone wouldn’t realise).

Then we come full circle – if I got a twitter canal ID mainly to add onto my blog posts (that I don’t do enough off), shouldn’t I get a blog ID for my boardgames? I put it off, but rather than get a new boardgame domain, I thought I’d try wordpress own hosting – after all I know the blog tools already.