>
> > > I plead a combination of on the one hand, stunned pleasure that we
>> > have a games shop _at all_, and on the other, a priority-seizing horror
>> > that they're charging 45EUR for Puerto Rico, 25EUR for Settlers
>> > expansions, etc. To expect, nay, even _hope_ that they'd sell a RPG that
>> > I'd actually want to buy seems... almost indecently optimistic.
>
>> Since I haven't priced PR or Settlers (not my style, mostly, and I don't
>> have the gelt for 'em even if I did want 'em) are those good prices (so
>> you'd be likely to buy those instead of a nice, cushy RPG) or so overpriced
>> that you fear for what HQ will run?
>
>Those are so overpriced that I gasped in "shock and awe" so great that
>no thoughts of other types of game entered by impressionable post-
>Calvinist head at the time. (Roughly double what one would pay from
>a discount outlet in the US or Germany. Probably, sadly, not at all
>out of line with what one normally pays in the UK and Ireland in a bona
>fide actual floor-space retailer...)
Without checking the current exchange rates the prices look on the
high side to me compared to U.K. shop prices - but not by much
(rounding up to the nearest 5 Euros would do it).
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"The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of
immortality. More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals
in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala
Guide to Taoism_
Paul K.