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Originally Posted by netwolf
Scott,
In your expereince would manufactures take a deposit untill order is actually shipped?
Fahim
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Fahim, Thanks for your comments.
Base answer is I don't know...some might I would guess most won't.
The issue with this is really one of market size and scale...How many of an item (any item) do you think are sold worldwide? How many into Australia?
I suspect that even our biggest Australian retailers on the fastest moving items have little volume as a percentage of the world total. What advantage would a manufacturer gain by making an exception?
Think about the new RC telescopes...how many will be sold into Australia versus the USA? One tenth?...I doubt it. They will likely sell all they can make into the USA for a period of time without changing a thing. I suspect that they would not care in the short term if the number sold into Australia is small, they just want to keep their plant open and running. Once growth slows then they might consider it but by then they will be off on "the next thing"
But, look at the bright side, Australia is much better off than NZ market size wise!
