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Originally Posted by lars573
Retail prices don't shift with the dollar's value. MSRP's for Canada were "set" about 10 years ago. So that a shifting dollar wouldn't cause shifts in retail prices. But the ratio that's used to determine our MSRP is different for different products. For video games you slap an extra $10 on the games for our price and an extra $100 for the console. For toys it seems a 1:1.49 (CAN:USA) ratio is used. Your not the first I've heard complaining about the near highway robbery buying at retail is becoming. So a news report was done on it. Could be worse though. It could be like in Britian or Europe. Where they either double the price (Britain) or just replace the $ with a Euro sign and be done with it.
Also Cybertron leader toys were $69.99, well Metroplex was.
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Agreed. Since MSRP were were set many years ago, TRU Canada does not wish to revise them. They want to continue to make their fat margins (profit) from the difference in Exchange Rates.
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Originally Posted by nuropa
the only thing that priced reasonably with the current exchange rate was TRU's Desert Attack 2 pack. $29.99 in Canada and $24.99US in the States.
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Hell yeah! I bought 2 of these guys. I have a tendency to favour only TF figures with "projectile" weapons. "Desert Attack" was such a good deal, I had to buy even though they didn't have any projectiles.
You can usually find some Leader figures prices at $ 59.99 at Zeller's or Walmart.
