My company wants to get a couple of the old
Logitech Driving Force units purchased from the USA and shipped express-super-immediate to Japan. (Edit: These are not the more recent Driving Force EX models, which have a different pipeline for support.)
Amazon shows the very model I want, partnered with TigerDirect, CompUSA, and various other dealers. Using Tiger Direct, the two controllers come out to US$110, but the shipping fees for standard shipping come out to over twice that, so the total bill is well over US$330. Worst of all, TigerDirect's Amazon shipping policies say that it would take 9-16 days, which we don't have.
Using my hotel-booking-fu, I realize that going directly to the source can have better rates, so I go to tigerdirect.com and compusa.com, which both have the same item price, more reasonable shipping prices, but DIFFERENT CAVEATS on placing the orders. The former will not accept my lovely, high-limit corporate Visa card, only wire transfers, while the latter will only take international orders at all if I call them between 0900 and 1800 CT (which I assume is American
Central Standard Time Zone) — which isn't really the best sign of support for international customers — and only then can I find out how long it will take them to ship, though I think it mentioned UPS International Next Day, which would be suh-weet.
I know this is crazy-as-in-nuts level of no notice, but any advice?