Thread: Can someone tell me why???

Originally Posted by grover7488

Americans may have a lower min wage than us but a lot of people earn good money. eg Plumbers and Electricians are on better money than us. The bit I dont get is that generic products in the states are available to pretty much anyone, whereas here the same things are only for the well off.
The 1st time i went to the US (1995) i couldn't believe that a BMW 318i was on a billboard for $19990. My friends mum had just paid over $60000 for one here! Their finance on new cars is sooo low. Hardly any crap cars on the road.
Our fridge is an american made Amana (retailed @ Havery Norman for over $7000 but in the US less than $1200). and dont even get me started on caravans, boats, jetskis, tools (my god their tools are such good quality and cheap as chips)
We have been paying thru the nose for way too long. But now with the internet things will have to change

yep

When Australian companies move their manufacturing off shore they can just expect us to buy off shore.

A while ago I wanted to buy a product which was manufactured in the US. I had previously bought two in Australia for AU$300 each (both private imports). I wanted another four to complete the set so I contacted the manufacturer. He gave me the contact details of the Australian distributor. The Australian distributor said they weren't interested in importing and selling me the four items for AU$1200.
When I related my tale of woe to the manufacturer he then gave me contact details of an American distributor who sold me the four items for AU$175 (including shipping). This was back when the exchange rate was 60c in the dollar.

I have many other stories of where Australian businesses missed out on ripping me off because they couldn't be bothered but that is the best one.

When Australian businesses offer quality service, quality product and the product I wish to purchase I will turn my back on the inconvenience of shopping on-line. I'm tipping on that day satan will be skating to work.

has anyone noticed it cost less for an ARB locker in the U.K than it does here? Now isn't that saying something

I was bagged on here not that long ago for passing similar comments to the ones I'm about to make but here goes again.

Most Australian's are now employed in the service sector, this includes shops like Harvey Norman, your local ARB dealer etc. etc. and yes we as Australian's have a very high standard of living compared to most of even the western world because our wages and holiday pay, health care, pensions etc are so good.

Think about this the more people who buy OS the fewer local jobs there will be and the whole thing becomes this vicious circle of ever declining returns. I wonder how many people buy OS who have a job selling products to the public that can be brought on line from overseas? I wonder if they will see the irony if they lose thier jobs because not enough people are buying local?

I'm not saying people shouldn't buy OS, all I'm saying is that if we all do it enough then sooner or later many of us won't have jobs to pay for the cheap OS goods we so much like to purchase and save money on.

The world is changing on many fronts including international inline shopping and I don't think the public or the politicians have thought this through to the logical end game extremely well just yet.

cheers,
Terry

Terry, i think the thing is why should we have to pay more for a locally made product. It should be far cheaper

Because some sales bloke in the US is being paid $10 a hour and not getting large amounts of paid sick days or 4 weeks holidays and is being taxed bugger all in comparision to us.

Plus many of the stores over there would have ordered their gear from here when the US dollar was much higher against ours or if they are big enough they forward ordered it with currency flucuation protection. Right now they will be looking at stuff made in Australi versus OS's and will be deciding if they can afford to keep bringing in our manufactured goods because eventually if our dollar stays high enough then they will have to put up their prices and then another locker made somewhere else will start looking very attractive to their cost concious local purchasers.

Australian shoppers aren't the only ones looking at saving a dollar when shopping, if our dollar stays to high this will hurt many different businesses not just ARB etc.

cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

Australian's have a very high standard of living compared to most of even the western world because our wages and holiday pay, health care, pensions etc are so good.

Terry

Are you serious?

What do you class as a HIGH standard of living?

We are one of the highest taxed nations

We work more hours and have less public holidays than most

We pay through the nose even for locally made products

I must be missing something here......

surely lucky8 haven't had hundreds of lockers in stock for the last 6 months so they can still offload them at that price?
and at nearly $400 difference per locker, thats an online price, has anyone priced them online from Aus?
What about the U.K then, why can i get them cheaper there? Not only ARB, but super pro bushes aswell.