Sounds like they are ripping you off!

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<chillythekid@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Thanks for the advice. Found an online retailer in Japan, who's
> shipping out my new drive.
>
> My Japanese coworker, who did the translating for me, was the one who
> told me it was more expensive because it was a Canadian laptop. There
> may have been a miscommunication problem somewhere down the line, but
> I'm inclined to believe it. (The repair shop also asked me for more
> (five times more) for the obligatory look-under-the-hood fee, which I
> had already paid, because it was a non-Japanese model.)
>
> -m.
>