What’s up with Norwegian board game prizes?

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1. They are allways 40% off, so I guess that is the real price.

2. It’s Norway fun is not allowed here /s

3. That’s due to fun tax

4. It’s because Norwegians HATE board games. Have you ever been to a party and everybody is having a great time, then the host comes out with a damn boardgame. Half the people start smashing their champagne flutes and the other half starts weeping. It is a horror show.

5. A lot of board games are made in Norwegian and thus makes the market really small. Ordering 100.000 Norwegian games are more expensive pr. game than 1 million in English.

6. Little demand leading to little competition and no fighting for customers. So, high prices.

7. Norwegian is one of the smallest language markets in Europe, so making board games in Norwegian needs a high price to be profitable.

8. I just came from a boardshop in Romania and the prices were surprisingly close to the prices at Outland in Oslo. Maybe a little bit higher, but with sales tax that’s expected. Norwegian games are in general more expensive, as others have explained.

9. Limited market, long lifespan of the products.

10. Most order oline those days inguess

11. Because they are generally cash-grabs, not well-crafted and engaging games.

    This also means that margins get pushed toward “expensive, low sales” rather than “cheap, many sales”, as this is less risky.

12. Just a headsup, usually boardgames can be found cheaper or the same price (When a sale) on other sites than the traditional bookstores

13. Based on your title I almost would have thought you were Norwegian. Prize and price are often mixed up among my Norwegian-speaking friends, both in written and verbal communication.

    Prize = something you win 🏆

    Price = something you pay 💸

14. It’s partially because the Norwegian book store chains are run like cartels, they’ve just decided on a steep ‘normal’ price so that they will still make a profit when they have 40% sales. It wasn’t like this 10-15 years ago. Most of the board games that they offer are cheap no-brand knock-offs as well. When I grew up, the book stores had games by MB, Ravensburger, Hans Im Gluck, you know, proper International quality publishers. There are exceptions to this, but most high street and shopping mall book stores don’t have quality board games.

15. Also those boardgames they sell pay for rent and electricity and salary etc.. So because the cost of doing business is higher in norway that translates to higher end prices regardless of what the product is

16. Gamezone.no is cheaper. By A LOT.

17. Clutter and garbage. It’s actually kind of a depressing sight. This wears me down more than anything.

18. Is it? Looking at Hitster Bingo for exampel in picture it costs about 35€ at the shop in picture, googling for it in spain it seems to cost around 35€, uk seems to be 30£. Exploding kittens on the picture is about 20€, looks to be around 20€ in Spain as well (amazon had black friday so 50% there). Soo looks like Norwegian prices seems quite ok. Just googles spain and amazon for ease since I don’t know local shops.

    Ark and Norli is usually quite expensive and more or less always has discount on them. Discount are quite standard in Norway on everything from games and clothes to food.

19. Well they are basically always on some sort of sale, especially during Christmas and Ski season, which is when most people play board games to begin with, don’t think ive ever actually bought a full price board games ever

20. none of those games pictured would be bought by anyone taking that hobby serious btw

21. Everything is more expensive in Norway 😵‍💫

22. While this may sound harsh it is ultimately the truth

    Norwegians accept being ripped off by their own government and everyone else. For too long they have accepted having their freedom taken bit by bit from them.

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