I do not mean to over simplify (or sound too cynical) but in my opinion the
answer to why do retailers charge so much for things in Australia is "because
they can." The justification is profit. Australians have put up with high
prices for years, but the global awareness that exists now has shown them how
ridiculously over priced many things are here and that may be beginning to have
an impact. We will see.
R. Bruce Richardson
On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Jeremy O'Wheel wrote:
> 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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