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cheap USA mail order. 9-Nov-2007 At 7:12:45 AM seppo

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trying on gear in a store and then ordering it from somewhere else is pretty dick. if you're going to buy from the US and not support the australian stores, then do it. just dont use the stores and give them nothing. if everyone does that there will be no stores left. ever since the internet boom retail stores have been going out of business. if everyone does what you do then we'll have no stores left.

and its not the australian stores that are marking things up. they actually mark up the same as american stores. its the companies charging them a higher wholesale rate. the US is basically the benchmark of companies and prices in the outdoor industry. if european companies charged what they charge in europe in america, they'd never sell anything. dont ask me why theres this unwritten agreement, but its there. it really is quite terrible. at the store i work at in NYC you can buy anything DMM for half the price you'd pay at the shop in the factory where they're made halfway across the world.

just dont try on shit in retail stores and buy it elsewhere. that will be the end of the retail business. and don't blame them for the prices, its the companies themselves changing their wholesale prices.