Comment by eduction
2 days ago
> In Japan, it sold for 2.6 million yen, but in the United States, it retailed for $40,000, a significant markup. To be fair, shipping them across the Atlantic and then throughout the United States must have been expensive.
If they were going all the long way around to the Atlantic that would indeed explain the markup. Not sure why they would though.
Also ...
> And news articles in 1990 said Sony dealers would not allow any bickering. [...] no discounts.
... that's probably "dickering", and an amusing typo. ("Hey, you can't squabble here!")