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.