AMAZON.com pulls out of australia

[Droidbot]

13 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

Apparently their meat tastes good, so can you blame them? Imagine Amazon Primes pitch for Australians:

 

"Free live Kangaroo for dinner with every delivery, comes with complimentary spice of your choice"

Oh hell yeah it does. Cats especially love it. It's cheap-ish so I feed my cat raw kangaroo occasionally. She absolutely devours it.

 

Amazon's Sydney warehouse that they're building is located on the edge of the "urban" areas - maybe they could roadkill roos and serve em with Prime?

6 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

What about the drop "shipment" bears

 

They're constantly baked on the leaves so they aint too efficient. It's the leaves, mannnnnnnnnnn

[JoostinOnline]

The fact that you can still use a VPN proves that pulling out doesn't always work. When will they learn?

[paddy-stone]

4 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

proves that pulling out doesn't always work

Sex ed 101?

[JoostinOnline]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Sex ed 101?

Congratulations, you picked up on the very obvious joke.

[kfir2k]

Thats realy bad for the citizens of australia on one point.

but if this kaind of move would make them lower the tax it would change the rules in a country.

its little bit scary the amount of power sites like amazon ebay and facebook have.

[paddy-stone]

58 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Congratulations, you picked up on the very obvious joke.

No congratulations for you then, as you missed the sarcasm

[Mihle]

On 01/06/2018 at 12:39 PM, Joveice said:

I mean, if I visit amazon like 90% of the items are "does not ship to Norway", soo it can't be that bad can it ?

 

EDIT: Hahah, it was supposed to say ship not "$h!t"

Most of the time you don't save any money at all anyway, and sometimes it's even more expensive too. Because of VAT and shipping cost especially.

 

Well, as long as the product isn't bellow 350 kr.

[Joveice]

2 hours ago, Mihle said:

Most of the time you don't save any money at all anyway, and sometimes it's even more expensive too. Because of VAT and shipping cost especially.

 

Well, as long as the product isn't bellow 350 kr.

Well it depends, only reason I use amazon is to buy stuff that's not sold in Norway, which I guess you also have experience of.

[descendency]

On 6/1/2018 at 12:39 PM, Joveice said:

I mean, if I visit amazon like 90% of the items are "does not ship to Norway", soo it can't be that bad can it ?

 

EDIT: Hahah, it was supposed to say ship not "$h!t"

Only in North Europe would autocorrect take something like ship to shit. 

 

Amazon will lose tons of money because of this. Are there good alternatives in Australia? This just seems lose-lose for everyone. 

[Joveice]

5 minutes ago, descendency said:

Only in North Europe would autocorrect take something like ship to shit. 

 

Amazon will lose tons of money because of this. Are there good alternatives in Australia? This just seems lose-lose for everyone. 

Heh, you guessed correctly!

[Mihle]

3 hours ago, Joveice said:

Well it depends, only reason I use amazon is to buy stuff that's not sold in Norway, which I guess you also have experience of.

Well, yes, that's the only reason I would use Amazon for too.

[Virus__]

On 01/06/2018 at 9:31 PM, Teddy07 said:

Aren´t Aussies also earning a lot more money so they can afford higher Aussie prices?

Technically we do. But the cost of living is stupid in this country, and it's just spiralling out of control, and wages are not keeping up sadly.

 

-Power is a rort, my last powerbill for 3 months was $900, it used to be $500-600 before the state gov't upped the price of power, because they could.

-Rent is out of control here too, the average price where I live, $500/w for a 3 bedroom house isn't uncommon.

-Car registration with insurance runs most around $70-100/mo before other running costs.

-Clothes are a joke of a price for anything that is quality. The pants I wear for work are $80 a pair here, thankfully I can buy them from the USA for $30 a pair, so around $40 shipped. I also just had to buy new boots, that was $200, but I needed quality & comfort, which the $50 pair I bought & promptly returned did not offer.

-Public transport is super expensive (at least where I am.) to get to Brisbane which is maybe 100km away, it'll run me $30-40 depending on the time of day & day for train & bus fare, in a car that is fuel efficient a round trip is around half that in petrol.

-Petrol is also getting stupidly high in price, I paid $1.55/L for 94 octane with 10% ethanol blend the other day.

-Phone/internet can be expensive, we're sort of starting to get that one under control with our "NBN" prices are getting better for better services. But I still pay $160/mo for my internet & mobile. Thankfully I buy my phones outright, otherwise that would be in excess of $200/mo.

 

Then there's luxuries like cigarettes & alcohol, which are taxed extremely high. Average price for a carton of beer (24 330ml bottles) will be at least $40, and smokes you're paying over $1 per cigarette now from memory.

 

Then there's other stuff like pet care, I have a dog, so she runs me probably about $60 a month in food & other costs. She eats really well & is looked after well. But even saying that bathing isn't free, now is worming, flea & tick control. But that's maybe $20 in total there. She doesn't get dry food or tinned wet food either, because they're both bad for them & expensive, funnily enough it is cheaper to buy fresh kangaroo meat & fresh veggies..

Over all my job pays alright at $26/hr before any penalty rates. But still i'm casual so, my hours vary, so my pay isn't steady. But it still makes it a challenge to get by sometimes.

 

Also this government is dumb. They looked at this years ago & deemed it would cost about as much to collect these taxes as it was going to bring in, all I can say is I object to being forced to pay tax on stuff I either cannot buy here at all, or in some cases I would be forced to pay upto 10x as much for locally.