Nothing wrong with a GOOD reaming!. Depends on whether your the reamer or reamed and can remember. Seriously everyone is trying to make a buck, big flash stores usually have big flash costs that they are trying to cover so they will try for what they can get. Guess you can try bargaining with them, the worst they can do is say NO and lose a sale which will hurt if enough people do it, but you have to let them have a chance to do a deal first.
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