[UA] Holy Christ!

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 01:15 AM 11/22/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>> That's what I figured.  And I don't follow the...umm, is it the
>> kroner?...Swedish currency close enough to know if it's had any wild
>> gyrations that would affect pricing between one shipment of games and the
>> next.
>
>> Whoa!  If your sales tax is 25%, then the UA book should be at least
>$31.25,
>> without accounting for importation costs (customs brokerage, overseas
>> freight, etc.).  I would have expected it to be at least $35-$40.
>
>The Swedish krona is pretty stable and I dont know about taxes on imported
>goods and stuff like that. All I know is that if the rulebook costs around
>$28 then PoMoMa shouldn't cost $44! Not to worry, if there's some kind of
>mistake, I'm gonna get me a rebate on Hush, Hush! =)

My guess would be that the store owner has been sitting on that copy of UA
for a year or so and figures it's time to discount it and free up space.  

-G.
Three decades, seven presidents, eight Olympic games, 28 volcanic
eruptions, 87 space missions, 203 overthrown governments, 1,712 Oscar
nominations, 420,000 new miles of highway, 51 million acres of cleared
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