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Originally Posted by raymo
I hope there's nothing wrong with it Nik, because you'll have to pay the freight to send it back to the U.S.
raymo
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OMG you reminded me of this person we had to bought Bushnell Legend binos that had lifetime warranty from B&H in the states... but they refused to help her and we can't do even out of warranty repairs cos the new binos can't be repaired by a third party--it's impossible to get into them. She's upset she can't get it repaired, we're upset we can't make her happy but what can you do...
Only the binos cost 2-3 times much depending on the model, but when you're talking about lifetime warranty, you're paying for a lifetime of servicing and replacement.
The longer the warranty service, likely the bigger difference in price.
At the moment we aren't doing big Orion stuff, because Skywatcher has very similar stuff and I'd rather leave Bintel to sell Orion because the market here is very small like raymo mentioned.
We only get decent quantity/bulk discounts if we import by container load. I'm looking to get containers moving through but that means new premises, bigger outlay of capital, and lots of risk.
If you go to any less common hobby shops, you'll see the same thing. I got into marine aquariums and it is interesting to talk to the shop owner and they also experience the same thing. And for them, they're dealing with livestock. You could argue that fish and reef rock ('live rock') is free, but think about it... you have to pay your supplier/collectors, their overheads, freight, and then running costs to keep the fishies alive until someone buys them. I think markups in that industry is more like 200%-500%.