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Originally Posted by mswhin63
I am amased that most people consider all Australian business as liar cheats and so on, especially on this forum. I am looking seriously at this forum and the attitudes. All I can see is 80% of people here discredit all business based on a few large business's trying to rort the system. I really thought most people should be intelligent enough to look a bit further than the cover of a book.
I am a very small retailer and I also try to give the best prices that I can possibly afford to give, but while the Australian Dollar is so high and cheap labour overseas it does make it difficult for us to sell. I am considering the option of providing a honest business opportunity to astronomy but with attitudes like I see here is it really worth it.
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Malcom you are correct in that the big retailers started this but the small retailers followed suit in a bid for survival. When the buy australian goods
campaign was active I always bought oz made goods where possible over imported goods. Now I cannot even buy a pair of oz made jocks. You need to remember a lot of people have had their livelyhoods destroyed by the lust of cheap goods so the feelings associated with all of this are going to be personal for many. The retail industry showed little quarter to oz industry in this process and are now whining because consumers are by passing the retailers in droves. If as the retailers have said "this is just a fact of the market economy, manufacturers need to be competative or perish" why can't they accept the same fate?
Mark