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Originally Posted by netwolf
Actually according the Law there is no duty on Telescopes and Telescope mounting hardware. I have posted about this elsewhere on this forums and have had a similar thread to this also. The Act, i dont recall which one makes exclusions for Astronomy optics and mounting hardware. But i have never had the opportunity to test this law.
Here is a link to my old post.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...0&postcount=31
Regards
Fahim |
Interesting so a Losmandy Titan selling on their main website today for USD $5,995 = AUD $6,575 costs from an Australian supplier around $10,600 - so $4,000 mark up - that's alot of shipping price and insurance then!
I know retailer make a profit generally as a percentage of good sold - say 10% - 20%, but consider its no more time consuming ordering a $600 Nagler eye piece versus a $6,000 mount - so why would profit for labour and time involved be say $60 on one item and $600 on the second - when they both might only take 10 minutes effort to process an order at most? There is no more value adding labour on one selection versus the other so why should labour cost on one order be 10 times the next equivalent order?