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Australian prices! 18-May-2011 At 3:56:57 PM cruze

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Yeah Scarpa SL boots $500 in Australia, about AU$220 if ordered from US or UK.

I have been stocking up recently on stuff from O/S that I can't justify NEEDing (I can always justify WANTing), which begs the question if you spend all of your time researching the best prices on the internet and buying everything you can, rather than actually only buying locally what you NEED when you NEED it and getting out there and using it, then are you actually saving any money at all?

My wife just bought a 2006 Suby Outback in NZ (yep another WANT not NEED) for about 80% of the cost of the same car in Oz. And that is before the 4/3 exchange rate! It was explained to me that AU is protectionist of our local car manufacturing scene which is why we pay a lot more relatively for imports. I don't think NZ has any car manufacturing so to offset relatively meagre average income they make sure imported cars are priced low.