In the regions controlled by the Assad regime, the prices of children’s toys exceeded 50 thousand Syrian liras.
The price of the game became half of the employee’s salary, as the parents could not buy the game for their children due to their poor purchasing power.
Tişrin newspaper reported that a family head with four children, when he learned that a small car had found a medium size car, 25 thousand, told his children that he could not buy a metal car before Eid al-Fitr. Exceeding the financial capacity of 35 thousand and a large car 50 thousand.
The owner of a toy shop in Damascus reported that the price of rubber balls was 9 thousand Syrian pounds, and the smaller ones were five thousand Syrian pounds.
The seller attributed the high prices of the games to “lack and scarcity of raw materials” as well as sanctions that “prevented the importation of games”.
Irfan es-Sirwan, a member of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, evaluated that local toys were insufficient to meet the needs of the market due to their weakness and inability to keep up with the market needs.
