Yes, that's about right. Brazil has a floating exchange rate and the American currency was on the rise throughout the course of the presidential elections (speculators in fear of the leading, and now elected, socialist candidate Luis Inacio Lula da Silva). After the elections, the exchange rate took a downfall but is now floating around R$ 3.4 - 3.6, which is still pretty bad. Some products here (such as music CDs and TV sets) are very cheap if compared to the prices in the USA or Europe, because those are built here. Imported products, however, suffer with the import taxes and exchange rate, which is the case of the PS2.
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Actually, Vinci means "win" in Italian. 20 would be "venti".
Yes, that's about right. Brazil has a floating exchange rate and the American currency was on the rise throughout the course of the presidential elections (speculators in fear of the leading, and now elected, socialist candidate Luis Inacio Lula da Silva). After the elections, the exchange rate took a downfall but is now floating around R$ 3.4 - 3.6, which is still pretty bad.
Some products here (such as music CDs and TV sets) are very cheap if compared to the prices in the USA or Europe, because those are built here. Imported products, however, suffer with the import taxes and exchange rate, which is the case of the PS2.