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Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 16

To: "'R. Bruce Richardson'" <>, "" <>
Subject: Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 16
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:08:09 +1100
If it's the Australian retailers to blame, why is it that in this case the 
wholesale price is similar to the online OS price? Are the OS wholesalers 
gouging the Australian dealers, or are the online dealers just taking miniscule 
profits on each book?

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  
>  On Behalf Of 
> R. Bruce Richardson
> Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2012 7:54 AM
> To: 
> Cc: Lloyd Nielsen; 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Handbook of the Birds of the World 
> Volume 16
> 
> 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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