Thanks Damian, You are in Japan if I remember right. it isn't so much converting the currency as it is figuring out what the products are since so many of them are not available in the US.

Do you know this company?
http://www.ici-sports.com/shop/

Their online catalog has a lot of North Face stuff, plus a lot of tents sold under the brandname, Paine, which I've never heard of here. Many of the tents look really interesting, but I can't read the specs except the price.
http://www.ici-webshop.com/search/list.asp?shopcd=17318&itemgrp1cd=1202&itemkb8=0
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