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[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Screamadelica

Looks like it will be fairly expensive. The Shogun 2 Total War Deluxe Set is coming in at $169 AUD, hopefully it won't be as much as that. Why are we charged so much especially with the Australian dollar being almost equal to the US dollar?

Exchange rates are not necessarily related to retail prices.

I used to work for Harvey Norman Electrical in NSW back in the 90's.

We were importing electrical goods in Yen -- against which the Aussie dollar was rising, so we were getting them cheaper than ever.

However the Aussie dollar was falling against the US dollar -- so we were able to put all our prices on electrical goods UP by 10% (even though we were importing them cheaper) and blamed the government and the "bad Aussie dollar" for the price hike.

We made a fortune for a while.

[Screamadelica]

Ahh, so that's how it works. I'm guessing at the boxed set selling for around $129 AUD, or I'll eat Feuerfalke's shorts if Tree hasn't already digested them. I like the idea of bombarding the retailers with phone calls until we get some information. Will put in a call tomorrow.

[FS~Hawks]

I to are waiting for the hard copy for pre-order here in aus. Checking EB website waiting for it to be listed.
It is at ubi shop for $89.99 AU but i would rather have it on DVD

[Wolf_Rider]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Exchange rates are not necessarily related to retail prices.

I used to work for Harvey Norman Electrical in NSW back in the 90's.

We were importing electrical goods in Yen -- against which the Aussie dollar was rising, so we were getting them cheaper than ever.

However the Aussie dollar was falling against the US dollar -- so we were able to put all our prices on electrical goods UP by 10% (even though we were importing them cheaper) and blamed the government and the "bad Aussie dollar" for the price hike.

We made a fortune for a while.

H.N. has nothing on the fuel companies though... all that noise a while back at the low AUD$ and the high US$ (petrodollar/ reserve currency) = high fuel price, and look at the prices now with parity... no #$%*&! change [/rant]

[FS~Hawks]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

H.N. has nothing on the fuel companies though... all that noise a while back at the low AUD$ and the high US$ (petrodollar/ reserve currency) = high fuel price, and look at the prices now with parity... no #$%*&! change [/rant]

1++ it has gone up here by 10c in the last month. before Chrissy it was 1.24 now 1.39

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Exchange rates are not necessarily related to retail prices.

I used to work for Harvey Norman Electrical in NSW back in the 90's.

We were importing electrical goods in Yen -- against which the Aussie dollar was rising, so we were getting them cheaper than ever.

However the Aussie dollar was falling against the US dollar -- so we were able to put all our prices on electrical goods UP by 10% (even though we were importing them cheaper) and blamed the government and the "bad Aussie dollar" for the price hike.

We made a fortune for a while.

Good old Gerry Harvey, always doing the right thing by us Aussies, I refuse to buy anything of that tosser.

[Codex]

I used to go to either EB or JB-HiFi when it came to buying my games. But recently I've jumped on the STEAM bandwagon. I just got Dead Space 2 for $20 less than what it cost at EB or JB.

But I think for the collectors edition of CoD I'll go back to JB, unless I can get it from Amazon.

[PorcoRosso]

Bingo
I found it on Amazon for 50 bucks
just type the name in and up it comes up no sweat. Only slight problem is that it comes out on the 22 march. from memory the release date the 3rd i think?
Hope this Helps

[B25Mitch]

That version only ships to the US, if you read the small print.

[Wolf_Rider]

EB Games old mother hubbard is still bare