rtp wroteapparently asking for a fair price is a sin in this country
An unspoken one. In any tech store, show that you actually know about the product and fair pricing more than the store owner or salesman and he'll make a face like he's trying to digest a porcupine.
And looking at the prices I found here, I can kinda see why.
http://www.3gleb.com/Products/tablets/pages/default.aspx
If the Nexus 7 were priced fairly, as in closer to its 200-ish price, no one'd even look to buy the rest of the tablets on the market. And the local stores can't have that. So they bumped (that's some bump) up the price to bring it closer to the average general tablet price.