Did i pay too much for Ram?

My local mac dealer is charging $200 for 1gig of ram. I notice people posting how cheap they can get ram online. Should i expect a store front to offer the same or close to same price?
thanks

Depends on where their RAM is coming from. If it's Apple RAM then probably not although it is rather expensive whichever way you look at it. Even Apple offers a 1GB MacBook for less than that as a CTO. If that's what you paid then you can just take it as a learning experience. There are plenty of other things that you could have overpaid for which could have been far worse than this.
By the way, did you buy it as a single SODIMM or 2 x 512MB SODIMMs?

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