Thread: Will COVID-19 change your purchasing decisions?

Originally Posted by Sakoswarosorted

Supporting local business on items made exclusively in NZ I support completely , but for everything else,, why would you go to work to pay extra for items when you don’t have to, for some greedy NZ company the road to pocket your hard earned cash?
Reloading gear, Boots, Binos, scopes, tents, clothes...every hunting related item, are all at least 25% and sometimes as much as 400%+ cheaper overseas than at any major hunting store in New Zealand. Moneys hard to come by

Where do you try on your boots and clothes, look through optics, handle equipment? At the manufacturers premises or in NZ? There's 2 issues at work here in what people term as gouging. Manufacturers who want a wholesaler to push their product regionally, but then are unscrupulous and online sell to that region at not much above price to wholesaler. And then wholesalers and retailers that have to stock multiple product lines in varying sizes/configurations with all the associated costs and still make profit. Just for someone to walk in,have the convenience of trying said item and buying off shore.

Originally Posted by sdogg73

Where do you try on your boots and clothes, look through optics, handle equipment? At the manufacturers premises or in NZ? There's 2 issues at work here in what people term as gouging. Manufacturers who want a wholesaler to push their product regionally, but then are unscrupulous and online sell to that region at not much above price to wholesaler. And then wholesalers and retailers that have to stock multiple product lines in varying sizes/configurations with all the associated costs and still make profit. Just for someone to walk in,have the convenience of trying said item and buying off shore.

I try stuff on at my local hunting and Fishing.I won't buy anything from them. Fuck them and their monopolistic business model.

That’s the same weak excuse you always here from retailers. I get the information the same as everyone else, through research and reviews. Like most savvy buyers I dont need to travel to HnF to try on gear or equipment so please don’t put me in that group

Purchases based on allowing me to maybe move my business in a slightly new direction .

Most of my work was indirectly related to domestic and foreign tourism
Public and private visitor accomodation working on DoC and private huts.

They will still be an important recreational resource for kiwis but I doubt that there will be money spent on them in the near future

Originally Posted by sdogg73

Where do you try on your boots and clothes, look through optics, handle equipment? At the manufacturers premises or in NZ? There's 2 issues at work here in what people term as gouging. Manufacturers who want a wholesaler to push their product regionally, but then are unscrupulous and online sell to that region at not much above price to wholesaler. And then wholesalers and retailers that have to stock multiple product lines in varying sizes/configurations with all the associated costs and still make profit. Just for someone to walk in,have the convenience of trying said item and buying off shore.

I come from a time when the local shop had bugger all stock for things a bit out of the ordinary, and it was "ordered in" after the abysmal waiting time for it to be delivered, you were pretty much forced in to buying it even if you didnt like it.
Kinda like buying on line really. Except your drooled over it in a magazine trying to decide if it was what you needed.