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w1zard wrote:

Arson Fire wrote:
The points about the Australian price being high due to having to go through Australian classification or other government bureaucracies start to fall apart when you look at the New Zealand pricing.

Different country, with different and much more relaxed government (they don't really give a damn so long as you're not trying to import plants, animals, or drugs).
Yet we pay even higher prices than Australia.

New Zealanders have a tiny population and even less market power than Australians though. That probably does more to drive your prices higher than lack of governmental hoops drives your prices lower.

NZ may not have a population as large as the entire US, or one of the big European countries, but our population is bigger than you might think. Our population is around 4.7 million now. That is larger than Wyoming, Vermont, DC, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined. Population wise we are the size of Louisiana.
The problem is we do not have the negotiating power of hundreds of millions of people like the entire US or Europe.

Tygre wrote:

w1zard wrote:
New Zealanders have a tiny population and even less market power than Australians though. That probably does more to drive your prices higher than lack of governmental hoops drives your prices lower.

NZ may not have a population as large as the entire US, or one of the big European countries, but our population is bigger than you might think. Our population is around 4.7 million now. That is larger than Wyoming, Vermont, DC, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined. Population wise we are the size of Louisiana.
The problem is we do not have the negotiating power of hundreds of millions of people like the entire US or Europe.

Erm, I don't mean to be rude here but that is exactly what I just said. 5 million IS a tiny population compared to the rest of the planet.