Thread: Importing, Shipping, pitfalls and work arounds

We are a small market. Say Hunting and Fishing go to Remington and say we want a good deal on rifles because we will sell 10,000 in one year. Remington laugh at them and say Cabela's sell 1,000,000 a year take the deal on offer. Our retailers will pay more for the same product than the American retailers, then they have to ship it half way across the world. We are a market of at most 4 million, USA has 318 million. There retailers can afford to make smaller margins because their turnover is so high.
The cheap deals we can access on the internet are because of the buying power of the US domestic market.

We all want a good wage/salary for our job, but someone has to pay us, whether they are our employer or customer. We all want our money to go further, but if we all send our money overseas then that money is not circulating in NZ, there is less money to go around, and one of the first things to drop is wages/jobs. Just look at the prediction for the rural economy with the low milk payment.

If we all buy everything overseas then the local suppliers will close, then we will have to buy everything from overseas, and good luck getting someone to ship gunpowder. I can't even find someone that will ship a carbon fibre stock overseas.

If you get bad service then tell them, a letter email to head office might make a difference, if it doesn't shop at another shop in NZ.

Failing that then set up as an importer, I'll buy off you for the really cheap prices you will offer.

I'm sorry did you just say... you have to pay 30-50% more just because you need to support other peoples jobs....

I actually don't think that is why I work. I work to support my family, not anybody else.... If retail doesn't work locally, then shut it. Somebody will always import powder, because you have to. You don't have to be a traditional retailer to make sure that happens.

The bricks and mortar retail outlet model may not completely disappear, but it needs to change considerably if its going to remain. The only advantage locals have is above and beyond service... that may be something that I would pay extra for.... but as discussed that has still to become something that local retailers actually offer....

I can import everything I want to, and have no doubt that powder would not be an issue either.... you just got to do the process....