Is Amazon going to price gouge us just a little less than others?

RonaldR on 29/07/2017 - 22:15
Last edited 29/07/2017 - 22:39 by 1 other user

Is it going to cost us more to shop on Amazon?
Reason Amazon has chosen Australia as one of its first countries to expand to is they know that we are price gouged.

I am an Amazon customer as with the current USA suppliers that want to sell their products World Wide, we benefit as the prices are set to attract customers from countries that are not Price Gouged like us and then AMAZON having the lowest shipping rates out of the USA due to their large Volume.

THE BIG QUESTION

When Amazon Australia opens will we still be able to shop on the International section of Amazon in America. Or like with Netflix and Bose be limited to the Australian operation if so will cost me a lot more money. Amazon would know about the Bose restriction and the Huge Profit they make on every Item Sold in Australia and how Bose guard it. In the USA all their retailers are Authorised sellers and if they sell to Australians on line or through forwarding schemes they lose their Authorization.

I am pissed off that when I started re-fitting my shed for woodwork and buying equipment that I did not think of starting a buying club. A table saw that sells for around $2800 in Australia between $800 & $1000 including shipping but you have to buy more than 1 or 2 .

Small Tables saw that sells at Bunning’s for around $200 (now discontinued ) $35us

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  whooah1979 on 29/07/2017 - 22:28

  +9

  amazon is here to make money. of course they'll price gouge us.

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  Gunther on 29/07/2017 - 22:31

  +2

  I am going to say it has something to do with this…

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count…

  Australia wins!

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    Diji1 on 29/07/2017 - 22:47

    +4

    Now you know why Australia's economy is so strong: people have money to spend.

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    Flying Ace on 30/07/2017 - 08:44

    8th ;-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average…

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      D C on 31/07/2017 - 13:39

      Average is usually misleading bollocks. Skewed by the dole bludgers at one end and Gerry Harvey et al at the other.

      As the article says median: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income is what you want.

      4th!

      We do poorly on the 'big Mac Index' though.

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  teacherer on 29/07/2017 - 22:38

  +1

  WHY ARE WE YELLING!?

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    D C on 29/07/2017 - 23:00

    SO WE CAN BE HEARD OVER GERRY HARVEY'S SHOUTY ADVERTISEMENTS AND GENERAL WHINGING ABOUT UNFAIR COMPETITION.

    Does he still do those?

    The ads, I mean. The complaining will never stop.

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  Diji1 on 29/07/2017 - 22:45

  +6

  Reason Amazon has chosen Australia as one of its first countries to expand to

  I don't think you know how many countries Amazon is already in.

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  subywagon on 30/07/2017 - 01:15

  Didn't Amazon already stop us buying stuff from overseas ages ago? I can barely select anything anymore without it saying "Doesn't ship to your location" or something…

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    scrimshaw on 30/07/2017 - 01:21

    +3

    If the item is fulfilled and sold by Amazon, you can generally buy it. If the fulfillment is done by a 3rd party, then no.

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  bongom on 30/07/2017 - 10:02

  +1

  How did you decide that "Amazon has chosen Australia as one of its first countries to expand to"

  Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.
  Amazon.com - Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com