And lo on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:16:07 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Tim Attwood wrote:
>>> BTW, there's an old legend that in America all CDs cost (the  

>>> or is it just another wild exaggeration?
>>  ($10) I guess that's sort of true, you can find some stuff for that,
>> the worse your taste is, the cheaper.  Though double that
>> is perty common for newer stuff. ($20)
>

> Pink Floyd - then you can *double* the price. Which is odd, considering  

> and more still for big boxes of multiple disks - but nothing really  
> surprising about that.
>

> something. ;-)
>
> It's just that there's this often-repeated believe that everything is so  
> much cheaper in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. Myself I  
> rather doubt it. But I've never been there, so...

It is to us if you simply apply that 2:1 ratio and forget everything else  
such as wages, office costs, taxes... The real question is do Americans  
find their products cheap or over-priced compared to other goods in their  
own country.

On a similar note I know someone's who's just bought two Wii's from  


that's not bad.

-- 
Phil Cook

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