ashman
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I just hate being ripped off with prices in Australia, we pay top $ for our parts here, we pay 50% tax on new cars and motorcycles, the retailers are importing made in China stuff that is so cheaply made and have the hide to add 70% or more than what they are worth to make a very quick big profit and the quility is just not there.
I brought a brand new Triumph Thruxton last year, it cost $15,000 on the road, but over in the USA you can buy the same bike for under $9,000, I get all my parts mostly from overseas, even with the exchange rate, postage and all I get my parts for a hell of a lot cheaper than we can get them here.
At one stage there was a major very rich retailer here trying to convince the Goverment to crack down on shoppers here from buying online from overseas, this bussiness man has been ripping us all off for many years and probly has his fingers in the Gov. pockets, but lucky the general public put a stop to this mans ideas as they threaten a boycot of his major bussiness.
In the last few years online shopping has exploded and the retailers can't work out why, its because we are so sick of being ripped off, they sold off or moved all our campanies to off shore just to make more money, forget about the quility we just want to make more and more money, its not only retailers our Goverments are selling our asset to overseas intrest, our natural resourses are being sold cheaply, when will it all stop, when its to late or when we have nothing more to sell.
Well thats my pup gripe, now where did I put my beer.
Ashley
I brought a brand new Triumph Thruxton last year, it cost $15,000 on the road, but over in the USA you can buy the same bike for under $9,000, I get all my parts mostly from overseas, even with the exchange rate, postage and all I get my parts for a hell of a lot cheaper than we can get them here.
At one stage there was a major very rich retailer here trying to convince the Goverment to crack down on shoppers here from buying online from overseas, this bussiness man has been ripping us all off for many years and probly has his fingers in the Gov. pockets, but lucky the general public put a stop to this mans ideas as they threaten a boycot of his major bussiness.
In the last few years online shopping has exploded and the retailers can't work out why, its because we are so sick of being ripped off, they sold off or moved all our campanies to off shore just to make more money, forget about the quility we just want to make more and more money, its not only retailers our Goverments are selling our asset to overseas intrest, our natural resourses are being sold cheaply, when will it all stop, when its to late or when we have nothing more to sell.
Well thats my pup gripe, now where did I put my beer.
Ashley