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Australian prices! 19-May-2011 At 9:42:20 AM strerror

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On 19/05/2011 Wendy wrote:
>While everyone is bitching, has anyone actually noticed that Rockhardware
>and Climbing anchors have had very comparable prices to the US of late?

Yep I certainly have. I've also bought a few things from steve for that reason, not too mention the great service!

>It's that it's no longer
>competitive to mass order from the states because you can only sell gear
>here for less than what CA and RH offer.

That's where you're wrong. It's still massively cost effective, on some items, to get them overseas, even if it's just on the stuff that RH / CA don't sell.

>We are getting a false impression of the cost of gear in the states online
>as well, because they don't have to add tax if it's leaving the state.
> I do mean the state, not the states. If you walk into a store in the
>US, you'd be paying 10-15% more in tax than if you mail ordered from the
>next state. Of course, most of them offer free shipping with in the states,
>so it's surely effecting store business as well.

Seems like a few people in this thread are getting caught up on a few percent here and there. The price differences that concern me are typically in the ~100% difference range. These are not explained by currency fluctuations, import tarrifs or export taxes and they're disconcertingly common.