When a product is manufactured in a high-cost country, shipped to China and subjected to a distributor mark-up, the end result is a very high landed price.

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Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.

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Runner-up: While it represents a new high water mark in networked media support for home consoles, the Xbox 360 does not allow personal media other than natively ripped CDs to be stored on its hard disk.

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