Here is a message I have just put on rec.games.board.   Whilst it
principally concerns us here in the UK - uk.games.board therefore being
its logical place - I put it on the other site because I am interested
to hear from folk outside the UK as to whether they too are treated in
a similar dim-wit manner.  But I also put it here for the interest of
fellow Brit boardgamers.

Derek

I have just received details of latest games from a major British
stockist.  On it was a Rio Grande game that interested me.  Whilst the
fact that the price for this US game was just about 50% higher than the

game was being offered at in Germany didn't surprise me (we've all
discussed this before on this site) what also struck me was that every
game
on the list was so many pounds and 99p!

Who is it that sets these UK prices all ending in 99p?.  Is it Esdevium

(or whoever is the main importer)?

Do other countries do the same thing?  Or is there somebody somewhere
who thinks that we Brits are so dim we won't realise that 99p is just
1p short of yet another £1!

I don't know about anybody else but I somehow find this offensive.

Derek