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From: brant@alberta.UUCP (Brant Coghlan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The JOY of EXport
Message-ID: <968@pembina.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 04:57:01 GMT
References: <1592@van-bc.UUCP> <176@bby-bc.UUCP> <2517@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: brant@pembina.UUCP (Brant Coghlan)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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In article <2517@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>And don't you just love how Canadian whiskey, made in Canada is cheaper in
>the States ?
>
>-- 
>Richard J. Sexton
>INTERNET:     richard@gryphon.CTS.COM
>UUCP:         {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard

My complaint is with Amiga software and hardware pricing in Canada.
Why is Canadian produced hardware and software sold for higher prices in
Canada than in the States? (including currency differences)  Is there some
problem with software distribution in Canada?  It seems that Canadian prices
are from 1.5 to 3 times the price of the software in the US.  Are the local
shops just ripping us off?
Two examples of this are: Test Drive, a game produced in Vancouver, BC.
                          Easyl, a drawing pad from Rexdale, Ont.
The distributors must be acquiring the stuff throught the States.
ARRRRGGGG!!!
Amiga software produced in the US is also priced quite high here.
Does this situation occur in other countries?  Is UK software cheaper in
the US than it is in the UK?  Where is German hardware the cheapest?
 
Can anything be done to correct this situation?
 
Where is the problem?
		Suppliers wanting quantity orders for big discounts
		Two levels of distributors
		Greedy Canadian distributors
		Greedy Canadian computer stores

(I would have provided $ amounts, but I have been working in assembler
 for several hours and didn't think you would understand the FFP or IEEE
 values I would give.)
RTS
 
-Brant Coghlan
Comp. Sci. Grad Student, UofA, Edmonton, Alberta.
brant@alberta.UUCP   or  ...!ihnp4!alberta!brant
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 Brant Coghlan	 (403) 487-3619	   ...{ubc-vision,sask,ihnp4}!alberta!brant
 Dept. of Comp. Science, 615 GSB, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada