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Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?

Mary Hanna wrote:
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> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?

Same for the PS3 - just dropped to 299US with their popular nigerian
millionare add

And its 599 here. at 0.71 it should be $430 or so.

Mary Hanna wrote:
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> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?

Greedy importer so far as I can tell. Toyota Hiluxes are the same -
take the VAT/GST out of the equation and we're paying 25% more than the
UK do (and that doesn't take into account the UK import duty so the
difference is more like 33%).

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:24:12 +1300, Richard <> wrote:

>Mary Hanna wrote:
>>
>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>
>Same for the PS3 - just dropped to 299US with their popular nigerian
>millionare add
>
>And its 599 here. at 0.71 it should be $430 or so.



Well the Xbox Arcade and the new price for the Wii in the US is $199.99 us


The Xbox Arcade bundle is listed at DSE at $345


The Wii at the moment sell for $499 here, but the price has dropped world wide
on the 27th Sep, $50 in the US, the Dom news paper today suggested that there
would be a $70nz price drop here.

But that still makes it $429 here, and from what shops are telling me its not
a big seller here.

This does not add up.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs geoff wrote:
> Mary Hanna wrote:
>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>
> Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
> regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population
> the size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>
> A bit like everything else really.

I've heard it said by a retailer that the demands of the CGA puts at least
10% on the price of 'consumer goods'.
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs geoff wrote:
>> Mary Hanna wrote:
>>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>>
>> Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
>> regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population
>> the size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>>
>> A bit like everything else really.
>
> I've heard it said by a retailer that the demands of the CGA puts at least
> 10% on the price of 'consumer goods'.
> --

*******s! Without the CGA, many retailers would be struggling to lure
unsuspecting suckers into their shops. So long as retailers are selling
quality goods, the CGA costs them absolutely nothing.

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:21:21 +1300, "geoff" <> wrote:

>Mary Hanna wrote:
>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>
>Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
>regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population the
>size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>
>A bit like everything else really.
>
>geoff
>



I am referring to the Xbox price versus the Wii price..

In article <h9u30n$6u6$>, "~misfit~" <> wrote:
>Somewhere on teh intarwebs geoff wrote:
>> Mary Hanna wrote:
>>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>>
>> Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
>> regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population
>> the size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>>
>> A bit like everything else really.
>
>I've heard it said by a retailer that the demands of the CGA puts at least
>10% on the price of 'consumer goods'.

That would tally with what I heard about many small appliances ... 'we
import 1.1 times what we can sell ... the 0.1 is for warrant replacements
as we can't/won't/don/t fix them'.

Interesting if true ... what they appear to be saying is that their products
are ~ 10 % crap - which I would have thought would be a high failure rate
for any business.

"~misfit~" <> wrote:

>Somewhere on teh intarwebs geoff wrote:
>> Mary Hanna wrote:
>>> Can some one please explain or is it just a greedy importer.?
>>
>> Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
>> regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population
>> the size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>>
>> A bit like everything else really.
>
>I've heard it said by a retailer that the demands of the CGA puts at least
>10% on the price of 'consumer goods'.

Pity that the likes of Amazon won't ship these things to you. Take
chance with the warranty..

On Sep 30, 11:50*am, "~misfit~" <sore_n_ha...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs geoff wrote:
>
> > Mary Hanna wrote:
> >> Can some one please explain *or is it just a greedy importer.?
>
> > Possibly something to do with New Zeaand being remote, having specific
> > regulatory demands (though common with Oz), and having the population
> > the size of a pretty mediocre city in other countries.
>
> > A bit like everything else really.
>
> I've heard it said by a retailer that the demands of the CGA puts at least
> 10% on the price of 'consumer goods'.
> --
> Shaun.



But universally demanded customer service levels in US retail stores
easily match the CGA. It is just assumed there that you can return
anything you buy if found to be unsuitable.