See that too is why "collecting" rare carts just boggles the mind when emulation or flash carts are perfectly fine substitutes if you just want to play the game. Hell, I still haven't made time to play any of the EB games yet.
Yeah, you should've named this threat "Just the Tip" because there's a much bigger dong of a topic here, which is that lots of things are cheaper if you buy the Japanese versions. I got Panzer Dragoon Saga for like a buck in Japan. In fact, MOST of my Saturn games were between zero and five dollars. Christmas Nights was fifty yen!