Thread: Buyers' Strike
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Old 30-10-2008, 12:01 AM
Ian Robinson
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Originally Posted by TrevorW View Post
A lot of local dealers will realise and be affected by the drop in the $ as their bread and butter customer stop buying you might see some drastic sales happening
A lot of smaller vendors who are probably working on very small margins (not in position to bring containers full of telescopes and bulk accessory orders in without a customer order in hand) will likely call it a day and pack it in , pretty hard to remain profitable if you have long lead times on orders from overseas and the exchange rate is going downhill so fast.

The only ones who will benefit will be big dealers who can sit pat or absorb (if they choose to) some of the increased wholesale costs. This will not be good for amateur astronomy here in Oz.
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