Tenjikuronin

Cost of living is insanely cheap in India. $2000 USD is roughly equal to 149,300 INR (not fancy living, but enough to be comfortable). Food, Labor, etc. are all fairly inexpensive -- its mostly property which is costly (or alternately, imported items like electronics due to taxes). When I visited back in 2003, an entire days's food (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) only cost me 100 Rupees a day. On the flip side, when I visited the store, brand new Game Boy Color systems (which were already outdated by then, having been replaced with GBA) were being sold for 25,000 INR (roughly $350).

I agree with you -- I was just posting direct quotes from gold jacket guy before he died....lol

He's just following in the footsteps of this guy (RIP).. “Everybody knows me as the ‘gold man’ in the whole region. Other rich people spend one crore (10 million rupees) to buy Audis or Mercedes, to buy what they like. What crime have I done? I just love gold,” he said in 2013. “Gold has always been my passion since a young age. I’ve always worn gold as jewellery in the form of bracelets, rings, chains,” he added. He was murdered in 2013.

I can verify the first half -- throughout the mid-90s, whenever someone would buy games from NOA's employee store (Fun & Games), the clerk would slap one of these stickers on to the box. They usually had a giant spindle of such stickers at the counter which they would peel off and attach to the front of games, mostly to discourage employees and other buyers from reselling them (as they were usually bought at a steep discount -- like $10 for brand new SNES games in 1996). Later onwards, they switched to a white colored label (I don't have a picture on me at the moment) which served the same purpose.