You are in France so I'm guessing you speak and read French like a native so therefore not a problem for you to read the data card with the consequence that it would be strange if you bought the U.K. edition which has 'foreign' print on it.
Furthermore it is completely understandable and commendable that you support the economy of your own country
I am British and live in the U.K. so it would be strange if I bought this from Amazon.fr. Amazon.it or indeed from any other Amazon . . .
I would rather support the economy of my own country than support the economy of another country
I was scraching my head to find an instance where I bought a steelbook on a British website in lieu of a French website/store, when the steelbook & disc are identical.
I did, yes, but there were good reasons:
1 - I bought the UK version of
Gravity (€28 on amazon.co.uk), but for some reason the French steelbook didn't come until a year later (and this one was glossy, and cheaper, but I didn't get it). Same thing for
Pacific Rim.
2 - I bought
Ex_Machina on Zavvi (€27.53 with discounts), but that was before the French edition was announced (and priced at €22.99), otherwise I would have bought the French one, yes, because it's cheaper (though to be fair I wouldn't have bought it either because the FilmArena edition announced a few weeks after the release of the Zavvi edition was shaping up to be the one to get).
So it does look like I'm supporting your point, but I'm not, because it's not about supporting my own country, it's about which one's cheaper. With this hobby, it tends to get expensive pretty fast, so if you can save a few bucks and not lose out in any category that matters (and a J-card isn't one of them to me), you go for it
.
I've bought 17 German steelbooks this year, and some of them had a shared print run with Zavvi in the UK, such as
King Kong, Jurassic Park I, II &
III, AI: Artifical Intelligence, Poltergeist and
Boogie Nights.
Now, I understand English a lot better than German, and yet I bought the ones with the German J-cards which, if I take my time, I can pretty much understand but I'm sadly nowhere near fluent yet
. So why did I buy those? Price, that's all. All of the steelbooks mentioned above were €15 on release date including shipping from Germany to France. At Zavvi's, these steelbooks were around €20.
And it's not just Zavvi, for an identical product amazon.co.uk is often more expensive than amazon.de (like the great
Once Upon a Time in America steelbook released last October in both the UK and Germany, it was much cheaper on amazon.de). And I haven't seen amazon.co.uk doing flash sales with discounted steelbooks in the way they happen on amazon.fr, amazon.de and zavvi. Some steelbooks lower in price, but not as often as you can see on amazon.fr/de.