We might be travelling there for a month and thinking of bargains for everyday groceries, simple household goods, and souvenirs.
What's Cheap in New Zealand Compared to Australia?
nocrocks on 06/11/2023 - 05:09
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Don’t you need to own the car in NZ before you can import to Australia?
How will you drive back from NZ?
any recommendations for particular car importers for New Zealand?
Not sure… the cars were still quite expensive then just getting them direct out of Japan. The same car is about $22k out of Japan and about $40k landed here once everything is sorted. Wife wants a small run about and I was looking at Honda E. There are heaps in NZ and only a handful in Aus. Here the meth addicts want $75k for them.
I was only going to NZ to look for one because they have much more generous EV rebates, so hoping for a used one that someone already got the rebate on and selling it minus the rebate.
Another alternative was the LDV eT60 for a work vehicle. Here they are $90k+++, in NZ, they are $49kNZD after rebates. A used one with low km should be close to $40kNZD
My search continues…
Alcohol is cheap at duty free before leaving NZ, do it all on their website as they have specific online deals that get you credits too
fushundchups
Buzzy Bee
Sheep Baa Baa
Not sure if this is still the case, but it was possible to take empty bottles and refill them with beer, at a lower cost.
Lamb Flap is $13.99kg just now.
Chully buns and jandals.
whittakers chocolate (ᵖʳᵒᵇᵃᵇˡʸ)
Oxygen. Everything else is even more inflated than Australia.
Pack'nSave seemed cheap-ish when I was there last.
But maybe check out the OzB NZ version and ask there… https://www.cheapies.nz/
Dignity.
Filming big budget fantasy movies.
Other than cars. Nothing. Not sure how people in NZ live considering their wages are quite low and everything is so expensive
and yet as a nation they are (were?) a happier,kinder and more tolerant place than here, up until the Mosque massacre, and he was an Aussie. Go figure.
Maybe they just get on with it better.That's how it appears.
hwhen your country has no natural predators
Are they though ? Considering more than 10% of their population live in Australia….
How are you measuring this? Opinion?
They have gangs and corrupt politicians. The same problems with inner-city SJWs and H&S strangulation. On the whole NZ is just less advanced.
One mans advanced is another mans trainwreck
L&P
Pre made sandwiches.
Whittakers, Chips, Gold Kiwifruit, Cars, road toll, speed ticket and stamp duty
Fast food
Cream donuts, pixie caramel bars.
Possum fur items
Almost nothing is cheaper in NZ, except maybe beer and honey. We complain about grocery prices here but in New Zealand they are ridiculous. The was an article recently showing NZ produce is cheaper in Australia and even the UK than back home.
Imported cars. Have been looking at some EV’s and thought about getting one from NZ instead of Japan, and cars that the bong rippers here are trying to flog for $75k+ are about $45k in NZ.
As for everyday groceries and souvenirs, maybe a few bags of their pineapple lumps? Or whatever they are called. Surely they would be cheaper in NZ?