Canada prices double the US

[GaryReg offline]

Can you explain why the same product in the US is more than 1/2 the price of the Canadian price?

For example the M-5010 I'm interested in is selling on the US site for $249 or $319, Canadian. It's listed at $600 on the Canadian ONKYO site.

https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model ... =prodClass

http://www.onkyo.ca/Products/model.php? ... =prodClass

Not fair!

[Mike2101 offline]

Buy it in the US.

I used to work in retail in Northern Indiana, and I would get Canadian shoppers from time to time. They would be astounded at the lower cost of exactly the same products that cost so much more in Canada. Soft goods, hard goods, it didn't seem to make a difference. Even after adjusting for minor currency differences, products in the US were definitely less expensive.

But to blame the Canadian-side seller seems misdirected. After all, a seller, especially in this age of easy online sales and shipping, wants to be as price competitive as possible. I'm no expert, but I suspect some rules or regulations imposed by Canada or some provincial governments that ultimately keep the cost high, and the seller barred from adjusting prices lower.