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From: "Nick Eden" <nick_at_bRficyyERk3PjWVAqEk3WQoVh7BOApqFOPKe_vRdJOPA-aCu2-VYskKZYDNdHsvj7-SifL0tEo-j0Z_LgrONTQ.yahoo.invalid>
To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Preorders for buying Sartar Kingdom
ofHeroes at Dragonmeet 2009!
Alas, the fact that the exchange rate makes purchasing things priced in Euros prohibitively expensive is not altered by the fact that other things are prohibitively expensive.
This is not intended as a personal criticism. If anyone reading this list is capable of altering the exchange rates then I hope they'll see their way to returning the pound to about E1.4 before my next holiday, but I strongly suspect that this is not the case.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Osentalka <Osentalka_at_rBvHhyW7o6h6aqOTLcxO1HOEnaOUDC2CvC9zs19l1wYcdukghrmin_CKzjOaaSjaYhKIV34OIsfGHQw8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> Have had a look recently at www.tradetalk.de ?
>
> Okay, at the moment we have a Christmas Sale with lower prices, but
> normally
> the Gloranthan Classics books are sold for 45 EUR for a softcover, and 65
> EUR for a hardcover.
>
>
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> From: "Nick Eden" <nick_at_bRficyyERk3PjWVAqEk3WQoVh7BOApqFOPKe_vRdJOPA-aCu2-VYskKZYDNdHsvj7-SifL0tEo-j0Z_LgrONTQ.yahoo.invalid>
> To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Preorders for buying Sartar Kingdom
> ofHeroes at Dragonmeet 2009!
>
>
> That's probably being distorted by the low volume of sales for an English
> language product in a German speaking country. The current exchange rate
is
> just nosing at $1.50 to the Euro.
>
> I think the problem is that while E50 is a fair reflection of the printing
> costs, the very strong Euro and weak pound (and dollar) make what should
be
> an essential 'get people back in' product a very expensive niche
> publication.
>
> Compare for example the old Moon Design reprints: $60 for a hardcover
> 'Borderlands and Beyond', slightly fewer pages, but hard cover balances
> that
> out. A much more attractive purchase than $75 for a soft cover.
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Osentalka <Osentalka_at_rBvHhyW7o6h6aqOTLcxO1HOEnaOUDC2CvC9zs19l1wYcdukghrmin_CKzjOaaSjaYhKIV34OIsfGHQw8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Hello friends
> >
> > I am sorry. Maybe you think i am confused, but according to my
experience
> > in
> > germany the exchangerate from US Dollar to Euro in our FLG is most of
the
> > time slightly less than 1:1.
> > A product with a printed coverprice of 21.99 US Dollar for instance will
> be
> > sold in germany by most FLGs for about 19,99 EUR.
> >
> > Chaosiums "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" (59.95 US Dollar) would be
> sold
> > here for about 55,00 EUR.
> >
> > Have a look here for Chaosiums "Secrets of San Fransisco" for instance:
> > http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?cPath=41&products_id=813
> >
> > And here for the offer of a well known german FLG for the same book:
> >
> >
>
>
http://www.fanen.com/rollenspiele/p-152_127_-1_20981/katalog/1083605985/secr
> > ets-of-san-francisco.html
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > André
> >
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> > From: "Andy Leighton" <andyl_at_I-C7KRjOIrelObqYOiaHvemAkloIdTwMOTa_MXZSKk54wmWzLa9jl0cjbgriF3BuLeWtT5ZtqFuPzo7scR7e.yahoo.invalid>
> > To: <WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:24 AM
> > Subject: Re: Preorders for buying Sartar Kingdom
> > ofHeroes at Dragonmeet 2009!
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:40:37PM +0100, Osentalka wrote:
> > > > Hello friends
> > > >
> > > > I also agree that this is a reasonable price.
> > > >
> > > > Have a look at one of the greatest RPG campaigns ever published:
> > > > Chaosiums "Beyond the Mountains of Madness"
> > > > Chaosium charges 41.95 for the PDF Version.
> > >
> > > US dollars not Euros.
> > >
> > > $41.95 = 25 GBP
> > > 50 EUR = 45 GBP = $75
> > >
> > > > PDF is 70% the price of print version, so that a print version (if
> one
> > would
> > > > be available) would be 59.95.
> > >
> > > $59.95 = 36 GBP.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andy Leighton => andyl_at_I-C7KRjOIrelObqYOiaHvemAkloIdTwMOTa_MXZSKk54wmWzLa9jl0cjbgriF3BuLeWtT5ZtqFuPzo7scR7e.yahoo.invalid
> > > "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
> > > - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_
> > >
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