Friday, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:17
OH, don't get me started, about the inconsistent and to put no finer point on it predatory priceing polocies in this country.
We have "discouters" who claim to have the "best prices" and most certainly dont, they claim to have price match polocies and have nasty little tricks to avoid price matching.
Then there is the whole australian distribution system, some markets we do as
well as anywhere in the world, in other market sectors and certain brands, we are paying 2, 3, 4 or 6 times what people in other countries are paying, and there is no way it can be accounted for in freight & local distribution.
Take for example stationary motors, in the US, a Briggs and Stratton motor is about half the price of the equavalent Honda ( and so it should be the briggs is half the motor), in Australia we pay about 25 to 30% more for the honda ( possibly fair enough..scales of economy...) but let me assure you its cheaper by far to buy a Honda motor in Australia than a Briggs, by a very solid margin.
Then the spare parts, I can get Briggs and Stratton parts for half the local price from a retailer in the US paying full retail and that includes the freight........the actual list price is less than 30% of our local Retail......and that retailer will carry better stocks of parts than the local importer and Fedex will get it to me faster.
And I can point to product after product.
Its only since the internet that it has been generally understood that people have been having a lend of us pretty
well since the first fleet.
cheers
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