That happened with me when I travelled - got to a crappy hotel and said bla bla, oh yes, that's $10 more than you expected please!

Yeah I hate that about shopping there.  You can't take the exact amount out with you cause you never know how much they'll slap on extra for tax.

What I'm saying is that overall, exchange rate doesn't come into it.  The only time the exchange rate is good for anything is when we travel to there, cause it practically doubles our money.

You could have someone there earning 15,000 a year and someone here earning 15,000 a year.  Living in their own countries, where all that matters is their own country's prices.  We get some pretty good DVD sales - they don't.  We pay at most, £40 for a new game right now, whereas they have to pay $50. 

Plus of course as it was mentioned - they have tax added onto most things they buy that isn't shown on the original price tag.  Its because of stuff like that that I'm trying to avoid having to move to Florida.  Its just too damn expensive.

$ > £, no. But take into account state taxes, health insurance and by gollywog, (im not sexist), it is.

Actually, the Americans have it worse than us when it comes to buying games.  People here tend to just use the exchange rate all the time and instantly think we're getting shafted. 

If you lived in America, right now you would be paying like $50 per game.  Thats really the equivelent to us paying £50.  The Yanks don't get higher wages due to our exchange rate, so going out and buying stuff like games and DVDs tends to be expensive. 

Once the next gen games come out, that amount will probably rise to like $60 or so.  So they'll still be getting it worse.

prices dont go directly from what they were in America. They usually end up being £10-£20 more expensive.

We'll still get shafted on prices over here though.

I can't believe people actually pay for these collectors editions for most of the games. If they had extra game content, or maybe a port of the N64 games then it'd be worth it. But there's absoloutly nothing on that disk of any worth in the slightest.