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Originally Posted by drylander
In regard to the price difference between Amazon USA and Dymocks. Will Amazon when it opens its warehouse in Australia also apply the "Australia Tax" or actually force others to compete?
Pete
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I hope so! But - if Amazon Australia kills a lot of local businesses, expect the Australian government to step in and hamstring them.
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Originally Posted by PCH
I'm pretty sure only the very fastest moving lines will be stocked here at all. They couldn't seriously stock odd or slow moving lines like they might do over there.
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Yeah, I think that will prolly be the case sadly...
Look, I try and buy as much stuff locally as possible. But when price differentials are unreasonable in my eyes, it's overseas I go, and I have no qualms about doing so.
I'm deeply offended that our government seeks to reward ripoff distributors and retails by taxing overseas purchases. That's simply corruption and collusion on a grand scale imho, and is certainly NOT in the interest of the general public. Distributors and retailers complaining about losing business cos of overseas Internet based businesses etc, should perhaps look a wee bit hard at themselves and as to why they're losing business. And our government should certainly NOT be supporting such greedy businesses etc imho, at the expense of honest hard working Australians.
This is not the first time Dymocks has had outrageous pricing. Austraian Ebay sellers for books in particular, are bad at this too, but to a lesser extent than Dymocks.
Money is tight for me, every $$$ helps.