It's just really not fair. I've held back in buying a lot of DVDs (among other things) in an attempt that the Canadian economy will take notice. Doubt it though.... I am only one person. Yeah, the only thing that ever seems to make big business alter their way of doing things is money... namely, losing it. The only way Canadians will ever get the prices we're entitled to will be if the majority of our population stopped buying luxury items entirely, and stuck to bare essentials. It would probably only take a week or two of that, maybe a month at most, until the retail world altered their pricing. We need to start putting some of them out of business to put some fear into the others, if you ask me.Anthony wrote:I've held back in buying a lot of DVDs (among other things) in an attempt that the Canadian economy will take notice. Doubt it though.... I am only one person.
(jk of course) Although I think some stores here in C.R take advantage of our location to jack up the prices, there was a bookstore that charged nearly double the Canadian price for used books 
I am not really sure that is fair. HMV is significantly more expensive than Future Shop, A&B Sound and Best Buy in most cases. But still Young Indy was $85 here and I bought in in Bellingham for $70 USBarbossa wrote:I went to browse through HMV today just to see the current prices.
Young Indiana Jones Volume 1 was $89.99 last week. :
I went back to this link and read the comments people posted about the X-Files complete set. Seems like the ball is starting to roll; people are showing their displeasure about the DVD prices. Hopefully we will see price drops soon.Barbossa wrote:For instance, over on mania.com they have an article covering the complete X-Files set coming out next week. Here's the page:
http://www.mania.com/56529.html
THANK YOU! I cannot express my frustration more concerning this! The price differences on DVDs drives me insane, I get so angry at how much I am paying when they are so much cheaper in the US. The only thing that has been recognized at Wal-Mart is the price of Books & Magazines. They are now being sold for the US price, other than that, nothing else has been lowered! I am going to Buffalo on the 17th and I'm stocking up on movies galore.Anthony wrote:I am so glad that some other members here at UD share my frustration in this. Our dollar is the highest it's been in over 50 years, it's actually worth more than the US dollar and we are still being gouged for prices of DVDs. And it's not like it's only $1 difference or something, in most cases it's $6 or more (even higher when it comes to box sets).
I mean honestly, I live one hour away from the US border, now why would I pay $30 for the new Spider-man 3 DVD when 60 minutes south of me it's under $20 bucks. AND IT"S THE EXACT SAME PRODUCT! Companies are claiming that the prices are still high here in Canada because it costs more to ship things up here. That's beyond stupid. We're right above the US, not in friggin' Antarctica!! Do you mean to tell me there's that much difference in price in shipping something to Buffalo vs. an hour away in Toronto?!? I could see maybe a little price increase, but these are not little increases, these are huge. And it's not just DVDs. It's books, magazines, CDs, etc.
Sorry for ranting, as you can see this makes me quite upset.
Canada is going to lose out on A LOT of Christmas shoppers this season cause everyone is going to be heading over to the States. 
Just saw that it hit $1.08 on the CTV.ca website.Princess Rosie wrote:NICE! As of this morning the Loonie soars over $1.08! I can't wait to go to Buffalo on the 17th!
