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From: john@bby-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: prices in Canada
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 13:39:17 EDT
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> >are getting better); it is particularly galling when the stuff comes from
> >say Japan and the price I pay is effectively:
> 
> >wholesale price (Japan to US) + exchange (yen/US $) + US duties and taxes +
> >profit margin of US retailers + exchange (US $/Can $) +
> >fst + Canadian retailer markup
> 
> 
> Actually its just that you are paying for a second level of distributorship
> in Canada. 

I don't understand your comment - the stuff is coming from Japan so I
don't see where there is a second level of distributorship.  Why is the
relative price so radically different than the price of the same thing
in the US which is also imported from Japan?


john

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