At the risk of being terribly annoying: It appears to me that she did indeed answer the questions as posed. What she did not address was the fairness of the issue -- something that she not only cannot address effectively without a common ground of understanding (lacking wholly among the people asking as evidenced by the fact they asked -- if they had the knowledge of why the inequity, they wouldn't be asking the question). Do not whine to Curious Labs. They do not apparently have the resources to operate their own store to their satisfaction. Therefore, they have chosen a third party to provide these services. In simplest terms, you are not buying from CL, you are buying from Digitial River, who basically have a link in the curious labs site. You don't have to like it. But complaining about it to them at this point isn't going to do you any good now, becuase the system is in place already, contracts signed, etc. You could always wait the couple of months it will take for the product to hit store shelves and purchase it there. Odds are you'll get a better price anyway. Complaining may do some good, mind you -- they may choose, at the expiry of the current contracts, to use a different company or set up an internal fulfilment system. If anything, the best method to resolving these issues is to hound the hell out of Digital River. And I do mean the holy hell out of them. They agreed to handle these transactions, and they have been falling down terribly in the process. As for the fairness of issue, it is a certainty that the higher prices are, in some way, related directly to the nature of the fulfillment contract. Curious Labs Has changed the pricing, in an attmept to be more fair. The orginal pricing for it was going to be, as she noted above, in line with most other small companies. That would be a 1 to 1 rate. Which would suck even more for international buyers. Blaming Free Trade agreements is asinine, incidentally, for the pricing issue here -- rather than accept the "conventional" meaning of them, perhaps learning what they specifically deal with would be in one's interest. Beyond that, to deal with the inequities, act to improve the exchange rate of the currency you have to deal in. Long term, doing something to assist that (which, sadly, will help all those evil companies you despise so much) will provide you with the equity you seek.