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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You mean, the GST there? But will that almost not get neutralised with the import duties applied on the product when it comes here?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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No, not GST, a specific alcohol tax - Australia adds about AU$1 per litre in tax (as far as I can see - could be more), then slaps GST on top of that (I think - I could be wrong, taxation is deliberately hard to understand and governments don't like to give you actual figures to work from).
So if you take off the taxes, add shipping and profits at your end, then tax that locally, it can still work out cheaper than buying it in the country of origin! 
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English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So if you take off the taxes, add shipping and profits at your end, then tax that locally, it can still work out cheaper than buying it in the country of origin!
OK, that could be correct. May be I'll get some Tim Tams from here when I visit OZ again.
But alcohol tax on biscuits?! 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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As soon as you mention "Australia" my brain switches directly to "Alcohol" mode.
It's a conditioned reflex brought on by all the Ozzies I have met...
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English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'd have thought Ozzies[^] make you think of mint
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: OK, that could be correct. May be I'll get some Tim Tams from here when I visit OZ again. 
If you're paying AUD$3.50 for Tim Tams you're getting ripped off. Every couple of weeks Coles or Woolworths has them on special and I don't pay more about AUD$2.00 for them.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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$2 is quite good, thanks for letting me know. I'll keep an eye out for such deals next time.
Coles and woolworths are everywhere there, so I'll hopefully be finding one of these deals. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Pax
a sanitary product for Celtic fans.
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Companies will also charge what people are prepared to pay.
A UK example: CarpetRight wanted to charge me about £2.20 per meter for carpet grippers. Sourced on Tinternet I bought them in bulk for about 20p per meter. Naturally, I told 'em no thanks.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Thanks, that makes sense.
Biscuits of similar quality are available here for around Rs. 100/- or less, whereas normal biscuits like marie are sold for Rs. 15 or so.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Carpet grippers and underlay are to CarpetRight what USB Leads are to PC World...
They compete on the price on the main item, then make up the profit with the extras.
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SeptimusHedgehog 151576 wrote: A UK example: CarpetRight wanted to charge me about £2.20 per meter for carpet grippers.
Should have bought it per metre, would've been cheaper than that imported meter shite.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Exactly.
I ended up going to a shop and paying EUR 50 for a laptop display inverter, because I couldn't wait two weeks for the same item to be delivered to my door for EUR 20.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is no tax on food in Australia. It's called price gouging and if you look at most items sold internationally the price varies e.g. Big Mac. Some markets therefore have a bigger markup (unit profit) than others.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Supply and demand. Nothing has a real price.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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An account manager from the Aussie office brought us in some Tim Tams (to the UK office) and told us that people use them as a straw to drink hot drinks. Bite a corner off either side, dip it in your drink and suck. Of course those of us brave enough to try this ingenius mix or tea and biscuit found ourself sticky rather quickly, with the Tim Tam melting with the influx of warm liquid. At the very least it was a good laugh.
We have penguins in the UK, pretty much a Tim Tam without all the flavouring, they also include the cheesest jokes on the planet.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I though that it was only me who failed see the difference (joke aside) between Tim Tams and Penguins, do Tim Tams in there native state have a wrapper and can be purchased individually?
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Yeah, we did that with a cup of hot coffee and it melted away before we could finish the drink. The amalgam of chocolate coating and the coffee was nice to drink though.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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You also have to take costs for the employees and warehouses doing distribution and storing. Also having a contract with local stores to sell them might make a difference varying by country.
Besides when you CAN sell them with a high profit margin, why shouldn't you? (e.g. Apple also has very high profit margins on the products they sell and people are buying them).
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Nicholas Marty wrote: Besides when you CAN sell them with a high profit margin, why shouldn't you? (e.g. Apple also has very high profit margins on the products they sell and people are buying them).
That's very correct.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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The cost of running a store in Bangalore is probably just a little bit cheaper than running one in Sydney. In this case it apparently is working out as a larger savings than the import costs.
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