Do packs cost more on the internet than in shops?

[earlofwessex]

I live outside the US and have to mail order everything, then wait for someone to come visit us and bring it with them (ok, I found master sets for sale here in Zagreb, but they are a little over $80 each). I've never gone to a store for Heroscape.

Is it cheaper to buy an expansion pack at Walmart off the shelf than it is to get one off of the internet (ignoring sales tax and shipping considerations)?

[Pathdoc]

As long as you are not talking about buying them off of eBay or finding a sale in the store, the prices are about the same.

[Vydar]

When I was looking, Mastersets were about the same online and in stores. You can generally find boosters cheaper at Walmart and Target than anywhere online - the problem is finding the ones you want and the cost of gas to drive around and look for them.

[Teamski]

I would think that it would be cheaper to get it at WM for $10 or so, strip the packaging and send them on. You pay for packing and full price for the expansions (usually $13) if you go through on-line sources. That said, the only way to guarrantee you can find what you want is to go on-line. WM is VERY sparadic when it comes to expansions. I'm amazed that you can actually get the master set in Croatia! At least you aren't completely in the dark ages there.

-Ski

ps. I know this is WAY off topic, but how are things over there in regards to the current relations between Serbs, Croats and Bosnians??

[K/H_Addict]

prices are generally the same, until you figure in the shipping costs.

[earlofwessex]

In answer to the off-topic question: I have only lived here for a year and a half, and perhaps the guy from Sarejevo who posts here would like to comment too, but as far as I can tell, a large number of Croats just want to forget the war and move on (which is easy to do, since they won).

The media hyped up the "ethnic hatred" back during the war (it was too complex a tangle of issues for most jounalists to figure out, so they reverted to a simple solution), and I don't think that there are large numbers of people smouldering with hatred. Croatia has a large nationalistic streak which may create some of the same effects as ethnic hatred, but it really isn't the same thing. Croatian national service will end as of 2009, after with Croatia will have only a small, professional army. That is an indication of the level of tension.

I've been told not to drive to Belgrade because my Zagreb plates will attract vandals. Bosnia is healing, but their license plates still lack the two letter city code that most european plates have. This is so that the Serbian and Muslim citizens can drive and park freely without their cars getting trashed if they go to an area dominated by the other side.

Kosovo is a smouldering issue. Kosovo is almost entirely Albanian Kosovar, and wants independence, but it is Serbia's historic heartland. Their history occured there, their most famous monastaries and buildings are there. They lost to the muslim Turks there on June 30, 1389. Whatever happens there, if the world thinks the Serbs will just quiet down and forget about Kosovo (that is, if they lose it), they've got another thing coming. Do you know what "Kosovo" means? It means "the blackbird's" (the apostrophe is correct, this is a possessive, not a plurl). It comes from the name of the battlefield in 1389 "The Blackbird's field" It was called this because of all the ravens who fed off of the bodies of the slaughtered Serbian army. Thus, the memory of this defeat is heard every times the region is named. It's a tough issue, but it seems to me that the Serbians will not sit by and let it vote itself away into a seperate, Muslim Albanian state. They are casterated now, but in 30 years they won't be.

This is what I've picked up from only a year and a half. If you ask me again next year, I will probably have more to say (of course, after all this, you are thinking "I will never ask this man a question again.")

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

This is what I've picked up from only a year and a half. If you ask me again next year, I will probably have more to say (of course, after all this, you are thinking "I will never ask this man a question again.")

:lol:

[jcb231]

The folks who say stuff costs the same online and in stores have no clue what they are talking about, no offense to them.

Wal-mart sells small packs for less than 10 bucks. No place online sells them for that price, and rarely do other stores match it. Target will dip down that low here and there. As long as you don't want the newest set (Zanafor's Discovery) you'd be better off having someone bring them to you from the states after buying them at Walmart.

The larger packs (Large Heroes, RTTFF, Tundra, etc) sell for about the same online as they do in stores, but it still might be cheaper for them to be mailed to someone you know from the US who is coming to Zagreb.

Lava is only available through Toys R Us and eBay.

Master Sets are generally the same price everywhere, but more if you are shipping them overseas. Folks you know in the states may be able to get them on clearance at WalMart or other stores, but those sales are sometimes hard to predict.

[hex706f726368]

The folks who say stuff costs the same online and in stores have no clue what they are talking about, no offense to them.

:up:

[earlofwessex]

Thanks for the help.

[Teamski]

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for your well written estimation of the current situation in the former Yugoslavia. I really appreciate your candor. I know it's off topic big time, but I think it's important to keep such topics on the mind.

-Ski

[eaglekiller]

What bothers me is Toys R Us' price of $13. They were the first and only place to have wave 4 in my area for months and I got all of the sets there except for one. So I ended up losing $9 ...