> mostly thanks to the big online marketplaces. I see you've never tried to shop online outside of the US. Let's take an example; my daughter has an Easy Bake

> mostly thanks to the big online marketplaces. I see you've never tried to shop online outside of the US. Let's take an example; my daughter has an Easy Bake Oven - it's a little plastic oven with essentially a 100W heater inside, with a little tiny baking tray about the size of your cell phone. There's an optional "cupcake tray", which is again a tiny metal pan about the size of your phone, only Walmart up here in Canada sells the oven, but doesn't sell the cupcake pan. Amazon.ca today has a cupcake pan for $52 [0] which a) is lower than I've seen it on Amazon.ca before and b) this isn't even the "real" one from the manufacturer, it's an after-market knock off. There's another one listed for $89. It's actually cheaper for me to buy the cupcake tray from Amazon.com [1] even with the $9 shipping and the currency conversion, and I get the cupcake tray and a second regular tray and a bunch of cupcake liners. This is not the most egregious example I've seen by a long ways. I assume a lot of this isn't actually malice but instead robots trying to sell products and setting prices that are just clearly insane. I've seen products with 1000% markup over MSRP before, and sometimes it's stuff that's easy to buy locally. There's just a lot fewer sellers on amazon.ca, so it's easier for a robot to climb it's price to infinity with no competition. (And that's not to say everything is like this in Canada - most common stuff is priced reasonably. But if you want something a little out of the ordinary or sometimes if the "main" seller of something goes out of stock, suddenly it costs you a kidney to get a kid's basketball hoop.) [0](https://www.amazon.ca/Replacement-Cupcake-Muffin-Easy-Bake-Ultimate/dp/B00RY499SY https://www.amazon.ca/Replacement-Cupcake-Muffin-Easy-Bake-U...) [1](https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Bake-Ultimate-Replacement-Cupcake-Liners/dp/B00O1FGND8 https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Bake-Ultimate-Replacement-Cupcak...)