Nintendo may have dropped the price, but Australia is still getting screwed too hard.

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starcraft said:

superchunk said:

Wait... your actually comparing one of the smallest markets in the world, that is an island with a population less than the state of California to the largest buying economy in the world?

Of course its going to cost a lot more to ship it to an island with a FAR smaller consumer market.... just like everything else over there except kangaroo steaks.

It does NOT cost $80 EXTRA per unit to ship something from China and store it here.  An enormous portion of our population is also concentrated in a very small area.

When I said cost a lot more to ship.. I didn't literally mean JUST SHIPPING COSTS. I was referring to the entire process that was laid out more directly by JoelCool7.

I was using ship as a generic term. I probably should have said "sell on an island...."