Er... by your post you'd save $20 buying locally... $394 vs $374. Doesn't make sense unless you are trying to shaft Bintel for no good reason other than you can.
Just because you can find some in a sale in the US doesn't mean Bintel should drop prices immediately.
If we all play that game it becomes a race to the bottom - as is unfolding in the UK BTW - and the losers are consumers who end up with wages on par with the third world. Economists have been there before and know how this ends. And by the way this country is at the bottom when it comes to social security (pensions), whereas the UK is at the top. In other words the UK has a population which is already chronically dependent on social security, unable to pay its own way.
IMHO local vendors deserve support. Think carefully as to which future you prefer.
$20 is barely 4 cups of coffee. 5 for city-dwellers.
If you are seriously rich of course, do as you please. Until we have a government prepared to address this inequality.
Last edited by Wavytone; 28-01-2014 at 12:57 PM.
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