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Originally Posted by nipperkipper
in the UK its £15 or 18.50 euros and we get charged very high handling fees
- consider yourself luckier than us
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Sorry, I can't consider myself luckier. In a country with a messed up economy and 3rd world politicians, minimum salary is less than 500 euros, we don't get half the stuff you guys in the UK get, games are far more expensive on release date and they maintain that price for a much longer period. Many games here are opened by distributors to include instructions, translation stickers and an authentication stamp that's an atrocity and hides an additional tax that's even illegal according to the UE rules and nobody does anything about that, so the original cellophane with the playstation/nintendo stripe is removed. One of the main importers in this country is directly connected to the entity that created the stamp, which eliminates all the competition from smaller companies and other importers that could get the games directly from the UK etc for a cheaper price than the retail value.