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Ownership

Is the company publicly listed or privatley owned? If the latter, by whom? 86.17.246.75 21:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's privately owned. Dalekfan101 12:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Its a little known fact that this glorious website is actually owned by Jesus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.199.31.56 (talk) 21:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone has ever successfully found out who owns this company, it seems. 86.17.211.148 (talk) 22:53, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://whois.domaintools.com/play.com 91.104.122.171 (talk)

Delivery

Does the company deliver to other countries outside the UK like Norway? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.108.253.187 (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Outside of the U.K. they do, they can charge in Euros and ship to a number of countries - Norway however might not be one since its outside of the E.U. and most DVDs sold in the U.K. can only be sent within the E.U. (they'd obviously prefer to limit them to just the U.K. but that would be illegal). Winterval07 (talk) 09:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Be aware that due to the fact the company is Jersey-based, customs in all European countries will charge you TAX. That they are situated in Jersey, is only mentioned in the Terms and Conditions. If you look under their contacts, the address is Harmondsworth (UK), which is just an office (according to the helpdesk of Play.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.184.25.145 (talk) 13:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I order DVDs from play.com to Norway all the time without any trouble - see [1] for details. Norway is outside the EU, but within the European Economic Area. 62.92.17.193 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:26, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Only low value items, such as DVDs, are stocked in Jersey. Most items above the £18 UK VAT threshold, will be stocked in UK.Danrok (talk) 01:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Region 1 sales

The Play.com website sells region 1 DVDs, contrary to the article Alastairward 11:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC).[reply]

They don't, PlayUSA.com do, but Play.com only allow them on PlayTrade - they don't sell them.

Winterval07 (talk) 09:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

playasia.com is not part of play.com

Just phone up play.com to ask them if they are anything to do with playasia.com / play-asia.com.

They conform to me that nothing to do with playasia.com.

As such playasia.com reference should be removed from there listing on Wikipedia play.com

Ranking in UK online retailing

A company that monitors web traffic is not a valid source for measuring the size of businesses. I would guess that the company to which it is second on this measure is Amazon. Most people will take "second biggest" to mean that it has the second highest turnover however, and I believe the largest by turnover is Tesco. Whether or not that is correct, this article needs to stake how this company ranks on turnover. Abberley2 (talk) 14:33, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Returns Policy

Amended information on Jersey's Distance Selling Regulations - article makes it appear they are based on UK law. In fact, both are based on an EC Regulation. Existing link is dead. Removed but not replaced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.66.115.154 (talk) 11:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The PlayUSA.com website was closed down in February 2011

I don't think it has closed down, seems very active to me, and there is no citation to show it has either. (Jme Saunders (talk) 16:13, 3 June 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Requested move 24 March 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No move for now. The question will be worth revisiting once new sources start coming in that will clarify the common name. Cúchullain ^t/c 13:11, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Play.com → Rakuten.co.uk – rebranding – ShaunaRakuten (talk) 14:19, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:40, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME and obvious WP:COI from the user requesting it. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 19:14, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose because its a COI account. CookieMonster755 (talk) 19:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. play.com is no more, and redirects to www.rakuten.co.uk; also [2], [3]. Zarcadia (talk) 17:18, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Per WP:COMMONNAME. It only changed a few days ago, lets give it some time. Mbcap (talk) 22:06, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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