The price differences across different countries a staggering. It is
ridiculous
that an item that retails for X dollars in Germany costs 3X dollars in
Australia :-(

The German retailer I'm buying this from is a discount mail order place,
so
their
margin will probably be smaller than for a normal retail outlet. But,
still, I
would
expect the German retailer to add at least a 50% margin. So, an item that
costs
$300 retail can be bought by the retailer from the manufacturer for around
$200.
Yet, that same item costs over $900 in Australia. Having talked to my LFS
about
this, I know that it isn't the LFS that runs away with the profit. (In
fact, my
LFS
pays more for the item from the Australian distributor than I pay for it
from
the German retailer! And import duty is only 10%, which makes me wonder
who runs away with the other 290+%. Freight and insurance can't account
for
the price difference. So I'm left with the conclusion that the Australian
distributor
must be making an absolute fortune with a 150-200% mark-up :-(

Cheers,

Michi.


Are you still discussin the Milwaukee SMS122 when you say AUD 900? If so
you're way off beam. They cost AUD 231 froi Milwaukee Meters Australia.
See this link:

http://www.milwaukeemeters.com.au/dcontrollers.html