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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krafus" data-source="post: 3901140" data-attributes="member: 27256">I have no idea whether they decide the Canadian price. But someone, somewhere, certainly does, and this cannot but negatively affect my perception of WotC. If Wizards are unaware of how this makes them look, then someone in their marketing department is asleep at the helm. Especially since, AFAIK, they've never mentioned that they were aware of the exchange rate and trying to lower Canadian prices. As to their policy being out of line with the other publishers, I fail to see the relevance. It's WotC we're talking about, not the other publishers. I believe that WotC's overpricing is wrong and unfair, especially as they don't seem to be doing anything to change the situation. Whether the other publishers do the same or not IMO doesn't matter. A number of wrongs do not make a right. I agree that WotC has no control ove the exchange rate. But as I've mentioned in my post, the Canadian dollar had been steadily climbing for awhile before it achieved its recent parity with the US dollar. That was time enough for Wizards to have at least started to change their Canadian prices, if they had any intent of doing so. Heck, just a message saying they're aware of the disparity and will be trying to correct it ASAP would be enough to assuage me. But no - we're still seeing the exact same pricing difference as when the loonie was in the 0.70 - 0.75 range compared to the US dollar, with absolutely no hints that they plan to change that pricing in the future. Thus, not only are Wizards screwing their Canadian customers now, but there's no indication they mean to redress the situation anytime soon.</blockquote>

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