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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5442487" data-attributes="member: 20741">Oh I know, 401 Games charges US cover price less 10%. I was making the observation generally, not specifically to me.As for Americans not sure the exchange rate will "stick". Gimme a break. We've been hovering near a 93 cent plus dollar for 3 years+. This is about charging as much for your product as you think can get away with. That's reality when it comes to pricing at retail. It's about perception and consumer expectations,  not any underlying reality.The CDN dollar drops down in price 10 cents tomorrow? The price will skyrocket. The Cdn doallr goes up the same amount? The price won't budge very much. Greed is the most reliable (and predictable) of all human traits. As for distribution costs being higher in Canada. Nonsense. There is virtually no shipping within Canada of consumer products on an East-West basis anymore. That ended in the late 1980s. Vritually all shipping is conducted on a North-South basis. It's in fact *cheaper* to ship on a commerical volume to the vast majority of the Canadian market than it is to ship to most of the American market. We're huddled all along the border in high population zones, concentrated principally in three regions.  America is, in contrast, far more spread out and diversely populated.Try shipping to Oklahoma, Texas, or South Carolina or Florida. It's usually far more expensive to do so, not less.  This is especially so when the products' port of origin is L.A., San Fran or Vancouver.Manufacturers and distributors and -- ultimately -- retailers, will charge whatever they think they can get away with. Happily, at least we now have Amazon.ca to keep more of them honest. Problem is, Amazon.ca's pricing off retail TENDS to base it off of the suggested Candain cover price. This can amount to a cash grab. This is all a nice way of not saying what most of us know to be true: when it comes to exchange rates, manufacturers, retailers and distributors will all pick your pockets down to the lint if you let them. The rest is just sophistry.</blockquote>

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