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06-23-2007, 02:52 PM
|  | Surfaced Warrior / Mod | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Starboard Bridge-Wing Age: 36
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| | | I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
I have had the recent good fortune to visit a few different cities in Brazil and, as a crazy poker nut, I thought it might be cool to search out some COPAG cards to bring home as a nice souvenir of my travels. It wasn't too hard to find any, but after an extensive amount of shopping around I was quite surprised to discover two things:
1. I couldn't find any designs not already available in the United States through various online retailers.
2. COPAG Cards are FREAKIN' EXPENSIVE if you try to buy them in Brazil. I was stupefied to discover the same setup of cards I can buy and have shipped to my home for about $16.00 while shopping from the comfort of my home would have cost me about $50.00 to buy from a store in Brazil.
I know we are living in a globalized economy, but it is completely nuts to think a product would cost over three times more for customers in their home country as compared to the same product exported to a foreign country.
Long story short, I skipped the souvenir and decided to save my money for online shopping at home. Crazy.
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06-23-2007, 03:32 PM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
kinda crazy, seems they could be picked up at a bargain without shipping. |
06-23-2007, 09:05 PM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
It seems crazy but it is the way thing work. I know that there are items that are manufactured in Canada that sell for less in the US than here. |
06-23-2007, 10:14 PM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
Wow....I would not have guessed that. Although I bet those kinds of items would be luxuries down there right??
I am not saying the entire country is impoverished, but plastic cards would seem "high end" to me... |
06-23-2007, 10:29 PM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
On a similar note, I had a friend who visited Scotland recently. He's a huge Scotch (whiskey) connoisseur. He shopped around looking for a good deal on various aged single-malts, and found that they're cheaper purchased in Ontario through our government-regulated liquor store (who is one of the biggest purchasers of liquor in the world, I might add) than to purchase them in Scotland. He came home empty-handed, and then spent $600 on a couple of bottles at Summerhill (Torontonians know what I'm talkin' 'bout), and claimed to have saved a couple hundred... |
06-24-2007, 05:26 AM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
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Originally Posted by jdunford  On a similar note, I had a friend who visited Scotland recently. | Now that you mention it, I was in Scotland late last year and can verify Scotch Whiskey is quite a bit more expensive in Scotland than in the U.S. due mostly to the extremely high tax rate on alcohol in Scotland.
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06-24-2007, 08:59 AM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
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Originally Posted by Captn_All_In I am not saying the entire country is impoverished, but plastic cards would seem "high end" to me... | But Brazil manufactures Copags..so it does seem goofy to have them sold at $50 per set in stores....wow. |
06-24-2007, 09:39 AM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
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Originally Posted by guinness But Brazil manufactures Copags..so it does seem goofy to have them sold at $50 per set in stores....wow. |
Dice chips online $25.00 , dice chips at the place down the street $125.00(and the clerk told me they actually sell them).
It happens in the US also. Specialty stores often sell things 3-4 times what you can find them for elsewhere because there are still people who don't research before they buy.
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06-24-2007, 11:15 AM
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| | | Re: I could not believe how expensive COPAG Cards are in Brazil!
okay, but onlineshops don't have to pay for staff, the actual shop and want not.
A guy who runs an online shop can store the chips in his garage if he wants.
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06-24-2007, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by guinness But Brazil manufactures Copags..so it does seem goofy to have them sold at $50 per set in stores....wow. | I agree totally that it seems out of whack...but I don't live there.
Hey did anybody check US to Brazil conversions? Wait a sec....they should actually be cheaper that way!! |
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