Thread: Shipping from the US through a mate.

Originally Posted by Nick-D

I have no issue with paying my way, and paying a fair price. I just don't think we are paying a fair price. We can never expect to pay us prices in a smaller market the size of our own, but the markups we do pay are rediculous.
The model is crappy, and the end consumer suffers for it. Markets evolve and change, and having a distributor model making things needlessly expensive doesnt put any more or less money into the economy. I will simply spend the money I have elsewhere in a different industry. In fact if the savings were less significent I would happily spend alot more money inside new zealand and hence the economy would benifit.

To justify exorbitint prices by saying it creates jobs is dis-ingenious and short sighted. The internet has globalised the market place and things are a changing, and the retailers need to keep up.

As a ex retailer, and more recently a ex sales manager for a distributor, I couldn't agree more.
But we are in a situation where consumers are trying to have it both ways as well.

I'm working on a new company and its global in its focus with no bricks and mortar sales involvement.
But the downside of this is very little of the tax we will pay will be going to NZ, just a little paye and gst on sales onto NZ.

The new normal has its downsides along with cheaper stuff