Received an email from Carbatec today and they have their tin of 170 Titanium coated drill bits on Sale down from $89 to $75.65. But then Bunning’s have them in a tin with 99 Titanium drill bits same size range @$19.90 1mm to 10mm Carbatec has 19 different sizes where the craftright set has 14. 5 less of the sizes Craftright does not have these mm sizes 1/7/7.5/8.5/9/9.5 but has 3.2 but this has not been a problem as there are Chines online sellers that sell all the individual sizes bagged in 5's or 10's.
Cost is .20 or .44 per bit or when not on special .52 per drill bit and for me it is a long drive to Carbatec or the added cost of freight.
One of the Few times Bunning’s actually gives a good price as I am not a big fan of Bunning’s they also shocked me a few weeks ago when I saw Ear Muffs with Bluetooth and FMRadio @$69 -In my mind I could see myself buying them for around $40 but online they were over $100 one ebay seller $149.
My attitude is from us being the most price gouged country in the world and retailers advertising Australian owned does not attract me, But if Australian Made that does attract me but it is getting that way if you find something is Australian made and even with food in the supermarket it is just about impossible to find any think 100% Australian it has you doing cartwheels around the store .
There is a Table Saw I like very much but not sold in WA but in the eastern states between $2200 and $2800 then the freight cost to WA is an extra $389 plus an extra $95 if you don’t have the equipment to lift the saw on pallet off the truck. But while googling the saw it took me to the manufactures website in China and I noticed minimum purchase was one Unit @ $1300us I sent for cost of extras I wanted and delivery cost.
China to Fremantle $20us & $50us insurance.
The whole thing is we have to be smarter shoppers and you have to learn to ask for their best price for Example when I bought my Triton router Carbatec was over $200 more than other retailers and I asked them why they felt justified charging such a high price as I wanted to buy it locally and They are the only local Triton dealer and they had not advertised or listed the features that mad the Triton router unique in Australia. It was a US retailer that sold it on its unique features as I was just about to purchase another brand from the USA. Carbatec reduced their Trition prices to what the Sydney and Melbourne retailers prices (not the phony RRP)
The fault of high costs in not just on the Retailers shoulders a lot of the fault is on the greedy owners of the retail properties and what they charge. And the greedy importers and middlemen charge.
The Chines online sellers are now working on very high margins as they have worked out what dumb Australian online shoppers will pay.
The best Chines online sites are those that are only Chines language only and will ship abroad.
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