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From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Christopher Boek)
Subject: Box set prices ..
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 04:15:34 GMT
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v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (she listens like her head's on fire..) writes:

>In article <01GUANWV67TS000L7W@YANG.EARLHAM.EDU>, LISAKARN%EARLHAM.BITNET@UICVM.UIC.EDU writes...
>> 
>>Question about the $160 list price on the _Woman's Work_
>>box set.  Someone (sorry I don't remember who) mentioned
>>getting it for $140 in Japan.  I got the American
>>imported release (black boxed set) in Washington DC
>>from a national chain at $118.
>>So, was the thing actually sold at the $160 list price
>>anywhere, or was it everywhere under list price...

>$118! That is the best price I've heard yet for the box set. The only one
>I have seen is at a small store in Buffalo for $169 (ouch). 

How about this ... I paid AUS$149 for mine, which by the current exchange
rate (about AUS$1 = US$0.67) is US$99.83. But then again, it _was_ officially
released here (albeit made in the UK) so it didn't need to be imported -
and the exchange rate would have been significantly better then.

Chris.

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