sounds like you had scummy mgmt lol, one here in norfolk had them retail price. The mac version was more expensive like $50 more but that was the only overpriced one, rest of cards at the time were all $299 or so.3dfx MSRP was $299, but brick and mortar retailers like CompUSA were selling it for $699.99. I remember walking into a CompUSA in Austin when they launched and they were going for that much.