Cheap games in Australia

Hey guys, so if any of you are fellow aussies then you will know that our games market is horribly priced for reasons that no one can really explain.  
Because of this i was wondering if anyone knows of any good deals that are out there in Aus at the moment or indeed, any good websites that are generaly well priced.  
We just got a GAME store in our city and i was excited by this till i took a look at their prices. Never going to shop there i dont think.  
So yeah, any ideas on where to get cheap games in Australia??? 

Import, import, import. Try www.365games.co.uk or www.cdwow.com.   You can get games for about $40-$50. Both have fast shipping(and cheaper than local sites for shipping!) but cdwow takes a while to get stock in so only buy when its in stock from there.
 
Also check out  http://www.ecogamer.com/ for local sales, deals and catalogs. It's a pretty useful site finding whats coming up in specials or whatever.

Ebay is always a good place to get cheap games, or you could try http://discountgamer.com.au/

dvd.co.uk is a good one as well
 
and cdwow.com.au 
cdwow.com will send you to the UK site

JB are usually real good with prices, and most stores will price match them (GAME included) Which is good as you get points every time you purchase something with game,which add to a $30 gift voucher for no real reason. Ebay is usually my go-to though. Goddam it sucks to be a gamer in Australia

Yeah i usually go to JB Hifi coz they seem to have the lowest prices overall. Tho i love the massive sales that EB has every 6 months or so :D

yeah, JB if you want to go local, and EB has crazy sales every now and again. I hear Play-Asia is good too.

JB Hi-Fi. But since they stopped stocking games sealed I've stopped buying games there. Yeah, I'm anal.
 
Otherwise, eBay.

I'm a big Ebay user too, but I'm one of those people who waits for the price of games to go down before buying most of my stuff, just because the pricing is so bad. No fucking way I'm paying for anything with a RRP of $120. Even the cheaper games are a stretch at 70-80 bucks most of the time so it's very rare that I do any shopping at retail stores, and if I do it'll be for cheap deals on really old second hand stuff.

Does my head in how (some)  people in the US whinge about games being $60 
 
US: $60 
AUD: $65 
 
New release games  
AUD: $110 
US: $ 101.28 
 
Imagine the shit storm if games were $101 in the US 

i read the title and laughed at the idea lol

" Import, import, import. Try www.365games.co.uk or www.cdwow.com.   You can get games for about $40-$50. Both have fast shipping(and cheaper than local sites for shipping!) but cdwow takes a while to get stock in so only buy when its in stock from there.  Also check out  http://www.ecogamer.com/ for local sales, deals and catalogs. It's a pretty useful site finding whats coming up in specials or whatever. "

" @Metal_Mills said:

" Import, import, import. Try www.365games.co.uk or www.cdwow.com.   You can get games for about $40-$50. Both have fast shipping(and cheaper than local sites for shipping!) but cdwow takes a while to get stock in so only buy when its in stock from there.  Also check out  http://www.ecogamer.com/ for local sales, deals and catalogs. It's a pretty useful site finding whats coming up in specials or whatever. "

do UK xbox 360 games work perfectly fine here? over live also? "

Asks Oldschool, I'm sure he's well aware of all the various sources of cheap games in Oz. 

" Asks Oldschool, I'm sure he's well aware of all the various sources of cheap games in Oz.  "

I read many Aussie gamers buy CD keys at a price cheaper online than the packaged disc or digital download product. Legitimately, mind you: the devs and publisher do get paid according to the sites' FAQs. You buy the key, they email it to you within a few hours, you plug it into the particular download service (ie EADM, Steam) and you download the game. Apparently they're so cheap because there is no physical product/inventory to keep or ship since they email it to you.
 
In fact I used http://www.ozcdkeys.com/ to buy a Battlefield 2 Complete key (for use on EADM) for less than $15 USD when the game itself cost $30 for a digital copy from the EA store itself. And I live in America where games are already "cheap". Now that the Booster pack maps are free for BF2 since the 1.50 patch, you can get essentially the same game for $10 (minus the not-quite-standalone expansion Special Forces that nobody plays since it launches a separate exe and cannot play the basic BF2 maps) so that specific deal isn't as great. But they have many more; and sadly a few games require you to somehow obtain a copy of the game data itself since there is no current way of digitally obtaining it via cd-key alone (such as GTA4 -- perhaps once Rockstar Social Club expands?).
 
There is also h ttp://www.cdkeysdirect.com/ but I haven't used them. However I have read positive comments in other forums.

" @oldschool: thanks for the input, good to see that other aussies are in the same boat. haha. yeah that sucks about living in a remote location. I thought my town/city was fairly good for games, then JB came along and blew my mind...  "

" @mrfizzy said:

" @oldschool: thanks for the input, good to see that other aussies are in the same boat. haha. yeah that sucks about living in a remote location. I thought my town/city was fairly good for games, then JB came along and blew my mind...  "

I went to JB in Hobart yesterday (3 hour drive) and got me Opoona and Murumasa for the Wii, plus Blue Dragon for the DS and was a happy shopper. "

Also, for those who dont know, there is a massive STEAM sale on at the moment. New deals every day for a week. I got KOTOR yesterday for US$2.50!!! Borderlands is only $33 today.