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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 5104619" data-attributes="member: 1297">That maybe the case in Canada but on the other side of the Pacific it's not. I've lived in Wellington, New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia and Singapore since I got back into gaming in the mid 90s. I've frequented gaming shops in each city and a bunch more in Australia and NZ as well. My experience has been that a) the shops are generally pretty good (ie. clean and not run by idiots)  but dominated by something else - in Wellington it was comics, in Melbourne it was boardgames and wargames and here it's GW. b) they have a limited range, take a while to restock and most importantly c) the prices are higher than amazon.C is because we don't pay 1) US sales tax on Amazon and we don't pay local sales tax either 2) we pay shipping but we can control that by choosing cheaper and slower options and 3) the US dollar is a fraction of what it once was but prices haven't fallen in the shops.I used to use the FLGS in Melbourne because it was pretty good; because I like to support local retail outlets and because I liked the books to be in my hands now, not in 2 weeks time. Here in Singapore they won't have what I want, it's insanely expensive and most of the time I don't get a chance to read something for 2 weeks regardless of when I buy it.</blockquote>