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Originally Posted by mswhin63
There a people here and all over the world who will always hate the country they live in and for that reason they buy overseas.
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Malcom, I don't buy things from OS because I hate my country
. I simply apply good business sense and purchase the object I want for the best price I can get it for. Would you buy petrol for $2 per litre from a petrol station at the end on your street or drive around the corner and buy it for $1 per litre? As I said below the more complex and expensive items I will buy at home but I feel some local suppliers are charging too much for many items. Is that because of overheads, after sales service, greed etc??? Who cares it is still too much when I can get the same item for a lot less elsewhere (I live in WA so there is really no such thing as local suppliers anyway unless you want to limit yourself to skywatchers offerings). Bottom line, when the dollars up it's time for a little retail therapy and the US mob respond more quickly. I am unsure about the validity of the " stock purchased when the dollar was low argument" that is being used here. Most of what I have bought from OZ suppliers in the last 6 months has taken anything between 4 - 8 weeks to turn up which suggests to me that they are only restocking when they have an firm order rather then refilling the shelves when items are sold. Makes good business sense to me as they can charge at the current exchange rate. I have also found that a number of prices listed on the websites and magazines are not those charged when an order is made so make of that what you will.
Mark