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Australian prices! 23-May-2011 At 10:50:56 AM strerror

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On 23/05/2011 maxdacat wrote:
>On 20/05/2011 The good Dr wrote:
>>A friend is currently bringing specialist tools into Aust. As an example,
>>one of these items can be purchased online for 50GBP, about $AUD80 at
>>the moment. To get the stuff in the wholesale price is abot 30% less than
>>the UK retail.

the relevant point.

>Good post there which adds a useful dimension....esp since this thread
>has the potential to become just another bitchfest against Oz gear retailers.

Well it's a different perspective but I've quoted what I think is the relevant part above, everything else just follows. The issue is that his wholesale price is not competitive, that simple. WHY it's not competitive I'm not so sure, from a negative perspective it could because the distributor is gouging, or from the positive you could make some kind of (imo tenuous) argument about how Australia doesn't have the buying power to buy bulk. At any rate that appears to be the heart of the problem. Now the question is, as we steadily move towards global markets, can they continue to price like this and actually sell anything in markets like Australia?