By the way, on the market, cassettes were traded by natural Japanese, so prices were starting from 2000, it is in stagnant times.

We had a case when one comrade exchanged a year-old jiggle for a two-cassette hitch. Money dropped over the course of a year — and just on the fact that cassettes with music were a shortage, and he foolishly chased packages of copies, as I now remember — 10 ninety-minute cassettes a day. In the "studio" the wife, father-in-law and the eldest son (at the time - a student of the 7th grade, studied in a neighboring school). The cassettes went away like hot cakes, the son boasted that it was enough to enter any nearby village, and a weekly stock of cassettes sold out within two hours. This is at the price of the cassette of 15 rubles (written by uncle, however, exclusively on basf and maxell, i.e. Expenditures were also low.

That was the torrent, I don’t read the current :)