Actually I expect the price difference is due to Australia's changing
currency. It's only a few years ago that € 212 would have been $430 AUD.
Very few retailers change international prices in line with currency
changes, and are especially unlikely to change prices to reduce profit.
Jeremy
On Dec 5, 2012 5:56 PM, "Lloyd Nielsen" <> wrote:
> Ian Reid wrote:
>
> can anyone explain to the me the retail price in Australia? Cost to buy
> directly from Lynx Edicions, the publisher, is 212 euro (approx $270 plus
> shipping), so how is $430 justified and/or sustained?
>
>
> Sure can Ian. Some publishers will not give retail booksellers a
> reasonable wholesale discount but they still expect them to sell their
> books. Simple as that!! Another extremely annoying problem is that some
> publishers quote a standard retail price which the bookseller works on but
> he later finds that the publisher has discounted the retail price to entice
> people to buy direct from them. It is a dog-eat-dog world out there!
>
> And that is not all the sort of rubbish you have to put up with in this
> business. Buying from overseas publishers has an added problem - all
> consignments have to be shipped by sea which is still not cheap. Since Vol
> 1 of HBW, I have had two consignments lost. Luckily they were insured.
> Another consignment went to Norway from Spain before it arrived in
> Australia about 5 months after it was consigned. Another had lost all of
> its outer packaging and six books arrived separately over a few weeks.
> Another had lost all its tagging apart from a small torn tag with only
> part of my name and address intact which someone had stapled back onto the
> package - otherwise it would have been lost as well.
>
> Having said that there are still a small number of fair and honest
> publishers about.
>
> Lloyd Nielsen
> www.birdingaustralia.com.au
>
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