[LINK] Kogan on Online Retail....

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm,

The price disparities are interesting.            :)

So the Australian retailer's raison d'etre is to import goods for a 
far greater cost than the individual consumer can do it for? This is 
their business model?

Practically speaking they generally source and contract with not the 
overseas companies, but from either Australian importers (another 
middleman) or domestic branches of the manufacturing company.

They don't deserve to be in the supply chain if they're getting 
priced out beyond what the individual consumer can get. They would 
have to be entrepreneurially inept to a degree nobody could believe 
not to be getting a better deal than the individual importing 
consumer.

Personally I doubt there's a lot of price fixing happening at the 
supplier, importer and wholesale level ... but I may be wrong.

					Regards,

At 5:13 AM +0000 on 11/1/11 you wrote:
>Interesting article about this in El Reg:
>
>http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/01/10/internet_tax_row/
>
>Particularly note the table showing price comparisons between 
>products in the US and Australia.
>
>Fred
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