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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Everyone wants the cheapest products, many made in slavery/slum conditions by people on starvation wages, whilst also wanting to live in a country like ours, with all its benefits ( paid for by taxes ).
If you want truly cheap products, emigrate to a low cost country.
Andrew
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In a lot of ways that is just rubbish. I have bought a fair whack of car parts online form overseas. Given that I can buy parts (Made variously in Spain or Japan) from the US where they have to have them shipped to the US (After being shipped from origin, packed, put on a pallet, packed in a container, trucked to a port, put onm a ship, shipped by sea, taken off at a port, put on a truck etc etc etc) repacked in the US and shipped to Australia where it finally lands on my door at a small fraction of the local price (Think $50 for a pair of die cast aluminium door handles, pre painted the right colour where locally it was nearly $300 for ONE plastic one, in undercoat)
Thanks Gerry, love your work. As they cant be effed dealing with the GST the dealership I have been buying stuff from in Texas for ten years effectively no longer ships to AU. They don't say so explicitly but since the change was introduced they have simply set their freight to AU so high that I might as well buy locally.