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i have 1gb flash drives for $60BZE if he wants

This expensive in Belize works in reverse as well. I have actually found a local liquor store here in Iowa that sells One Barrel. $32.00US a bottle. I bought two.....

True Jean, kinda debunks the "grass is always greener on the other side" theory.

Jean, where in IA did you find that?
I didnt think it was even sold around here.

I found One Barrel at John's Grocery in Iowa City.

A couple years ago I discovered I really like drinking Caipirinhas. Went to the trouble to drag a bottle of Cachaca from Key West. Found the same brand at John's a couple weeks later.

Was it Travellers One Barrel or Brazilian Cachaca?
Ah...I see...you found both brands/liquors there.

here's my rant,,

1gb RAM for my new computer,, internet= $12us
1gb RAM for my new computer,, belize city= $120.00us!!!
i bought 4 from geeks.com

Ouch that is a big difference Barnacle.

It is stuff like that that made me impulse shop for flashdrives on amazon recently. I got a 4 gig for $3.99 can only imagine what that would cost here.

i'm all for supportin belize and it's products but that is out of line!
back page of this weeks amandala,, 2gb flash drive= 20bz, and most likely a not-so popular brand either!

Recently I bought 2gb of RAM on the internet for US$40. In Belize the cheapest I was quoted was US$60 for 0.5gb.

I also bought USB flash drives at US$18 for 16gb. You can see above typical prices for Belize.

This is mostly not the fault of the local retailers. Three years ago I imported scuba goods costing about US%50k in the US. Most of these goods were sent free to my shipping agent in Miami. Nonetheless Belize Customs asserted that there must have been US-internal freight charges, and as I hadn't declared them they would impute them - at something like 15% of gross cost. They obviously had all original supplier invoices so their assertion was provably untrue (one actually said "freight charges to your shipping agent are included in the price"), but it made no difference. I was ultimately charged various duties & taxes to a total of 100% of the original gross cost, and when I objected I was told I had the option of forfeiting the goods. At one move these goods cost me more than the normal retail price in the US, making them very difficult and unprofitable to sell. No wonder people smuggle! That was the last time I imported goods by the official route.