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05-29-2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by godwine View Post
Game consoles are about the same price, the only benefit is that you have a choice of models specific to Japan only (for example, a light blue Nintendo DS). However, the same cannot be said about Cameras. Buddy of mine bought a camera from Takeya back in 2006, with tax excemption and all that it comes out to be about CDN$270, the very same model was selling for CDN$299+ Tax at the time locally, so it turns out to be about an 80 dollars saving (15% tax at the time)
Yeah, I bought a Canon EOS 40d a few days ago and it has worked out about £200 cheaper than it would've cost in the UK (and that is going by online prices - will be an even bigger saving compared to UK store prices I guess)
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