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Wow - 5 hours of a plumbers time up here would have run me in excess of $500, materials not included.
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Americans and their cheaper labour rates / prices? Or perhaps more adequately...how much I hate Canada's higher prices for no real good reason.
Retailers come up with all sorts of funny responses to justify the higher prices though (for the exact same product). Things like...oh, well, the population density isn't the same so costs us more to ship to the far reaches of Canada. Yes, but then why does it cost so much to ship less than an hour over the border, to a city of 3M+ people...I don't buy it. And it isn't FX either - when the dollar was at par, somehow that didn't change much of the prices.
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