FTR - I'm just going based on that letter the owner wrote...I have no clue exactly how he would operate his business.
The way I'm looking at it is he bought 10 versions of Dungeons & Dragons and a bunch of other games for $10 last year at 0.85, and sells it for $15 USD. He has to replenish his stock as 7 have been sold, but now he buys it, and they still cost $10USD, but the exchange rate is now 0.65. He's not going to charge different prices for each box. But he does have to raise the price to re-coup his costs on the new order. So, he could go and change the price tag for each item that was re-ordered, or, could just charge in USD. Of course this assumes his items sell quickly and he is consistently re-ordering on all of his stock. If most of his items were purchased years ago, like I'm reading, then yeah, just charging in CDN for his big sellers is fine and probably more fair than upping the price for FX for something purchased at par 5 years ago.
I'm thinking of how it works at the grocery store, where we see the prices jump every so often, partially as a result of changes in the FX rate.
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