I was in Boston with my sister the other day, and we found some little niche anime/manga/action figure shop that sold some stuff I'd been wanting--CLAMP titles now out of print, and the first volume of something that came highly recommended that I was just too lazy to order at work--and when they rang it all up, it was $50 dollars. Which was a horrible shock; at work, I'd pay around $36 for the same number of titles. %30 reeeeeeally adds up.