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Message: <blockquote data-quote="craftyrat" data-source="post: 3057480" data-attributes="member: 8306">A few more thoughts - I used to work in a bookstore, and the price we paid was a percentage of the MSRP (usually +/- 5% from a base of 40% off, depending on how much we ordered).  When the Canadian dollar fluctuates, someone in the supply chain is making (or losing) money.  In this case, there is a good chance it is the manufacturer (Wizards), and a fairly small chance it is the distributor (Random House used to be the distributor in Canada, but that was a long time ago).  Guardians was on exactly the other end of this argument.  If retailers are marking stuff down from the MSRP, my guess would be that they are eating the cost in order to compete with Amazon.com etc.However, books are sent to the printer well in advance of when they actually make it to the FLGS shelves.  Add in the fact that currencies can fluctuate quite a bit, and manufacterers are a pretty conservative lot (they don't want to be in a position where they are selling at a loss), and there is a long delay in price changes.  Eventually, the price difference should even out - excepting increased transportation costs, and other local expenses.  If they don't, retailers will yell at their distributors, and distributors will yell at the manufacturer.  All IMHO of course. (this is a pretty traditional sort of arrangement, a big question will be how does the Internet affect this - Wizards might decide that they should let the sellers (ie Amazon.com) handle the hassle of Customs, transportation and such, and encourage customers to buy from the US by not equalizing the prices).craftyrat (also in Victoria, where I shop at a combination of Curious Comics and Amazon.com)</blockquote>

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