OK to sell stuff here?
What your’re alluding to is me driving my car to the front of a car dealers and putting a for sale on it to take advantage of the car buying public who will frequent teh immediate vicinity which most people would frown upon. TO park your car in a public street with a few peices of paper advertising the fact it’s for sale and the details is a grey area most people are willing to accept and I don’t think it’s illegal per se. A car is mobile and in the course of normal use is expected to be driven and parked for periods of time. There is a difference between setting up a stall and driving a car and parking it on the side of the road with some signage in the window. So you’re saying in your opinion people should only be allowed to advertise their car online or in the paper and show it to someone only at their place of residence or they are breaking the law?
Yes car dealers pay their rates, they pay dealer licences as well which the general public are required to do if they sell more than 6 cars in a year, thats the law, dealers might not like it but its whats been decided upon.
I was making a point in relation to what people are likely to do when I stated I could buy stuff from where I see fit, not that I think you are trying to curtail peoples right to buy from whomever they see fit.
Nothin wrong with havin adverts on your car as it is your personal private property!!!!! It’s when ya park along side others in a public area for the sole reason of sellin the vehicle, that then it becomes the problem!!!!!
Just like you’re free to have a for sale sign on ya snowboard, and then walk around where ever ya want to, as long as it’s not solicitin!!!!! As doin that without license or permit is illegal!!!!!
I have mentioned this before but I’ll bring it up again. How can retail stores have a campaign ‘buy your gear in Australia’ and not say buy Australian made at the same time. Its asking the customer to do something (support a local store), that the stores aren’t willing to do themselves (that is, support the local industry). I find that strange.
I’m positive that if the public were willin to purchase Aussie made gear, then they would certainly stock it!!!!! 3CS do quite well in OZ!!!!! (Although if made in Australia, the price would deter people from even givin it a go in the first place)
At the moment they are havin a hard time sellin gear that is made in China by an American Company!!!!!
Price looks to be the driver in the majority of consumer demand, and this thread is validatin that!!!!!
Yeh looks like price is important. There are other things for me as well. I like that GNU and ARBOR are taking steps to reduce their waste and use no toxic substances so that was the thing that sold me on my GNU board. If one label had been made in AUS that would have made me pick that brand.
Next I think ill be getting a FYVE custom, even thought they are a bit more expensive the the price i paid for my GNU, they are Australian and run by snowboarders and i like their boards….that would be enough to make be spend more.
And backin companies like FYVE is what Local Shops, Jez, and his stance on Boardworld are all about!!!!!
With the money from the local industry bein funneled through places like this, they will hopefully avoid the current climate and continue to grow!!!!!
I don’t think price would be a major factor if it was a similar price worldwide but now that ppl have easy access to the OS market and can see the same box being sold for half the price OS it is a massive call to buy local for some perceived stance for the greater good for the local industry. If it was within 20% most would be happy to support their local store but the fact remains it’s not so price is the driving factor. Fix the disparate prices between here and OS and the retail spend will stay in Oz and not OS.
I don’t want to see the industry fail just to prove my point but some of things I have mentioned need to be addressed otherwise I see stances like the one adopted by Boardworld being totally redundant when it comes to new gear. One thing I don’t understand is where the delineation is, Torpedo 7 is a local online store without a bricks and mortar store front that sells at a reasonable discount but it’s ok to talk about buying things from there. I would have thought that being online only it takes away from the local retail industry sales which seems to be the main idea behind the stance. Can someone please explain to me why this is different from buying from an aussie online retailer on Ebay? I would have thought that online only stores were a bad thing for bricks and mortar retail and therefor subject to exclusion from Boardworld?
That’s a valid argument, but only Jeremy can answer that one!!!!!
I do know that sites like Torpedo7 buy/sell only certain products that have most likely been either overproduced or over indented!!!!! Maybe from stores that are no longer able to take/pay for the order due to the current climate????? Do the local distributers supply Torpedo7????? I don’t know!!!!! Do Aussie eBayer’s sell stock from the local distributer, or does it come from the states as a parallel import?????
But still, should they be treated any differently than an Aussie eBayer????? Probably not!!!!! But like I said, it’s not my call to make!!!!!
was enjoying this thread, someone fire it back up again!
I hate to resurrect this thread but I went into The North Face flag ship store in the city yesterday and they had a terrible range. Only one type of female ski pants and nowhere near the colours they have online in the US (maybe 3 colours). They didn’t even have every size in the colours that they did have. Why should we have to put up with this? This is the biggest thing I have a problem with.
I wont post the links but the Aus site has 5 colours and only one length. The US site has 10 (yes TEN) colours and each colour has 3 different inseam sizes (like jeans!!) This is only one style of pant, Don’t get me started on the fact that there are other ‘styles’ of pants out there.
I don’t understand why the flagship store doesn’t have custom orders. I would happily pay more than i could get on line in the US to deal direct with them.
Sadly it is a global economy and retail has to adapt!
You also have to understand that the entire indented order for Australia, is the equivalent of some of the larger US retailers individual orders alone!!!!!
Some stores in Aus either simply can’t get that extra stock through, or try not to order so they aren’t stuck with sellin off their current stock for a loss!!!!! Goes for flagship stores as well!!!!!
And will only get worse as online sales increase!!!!!
It will be interestin when ya wanna try somethin on before buyin online, to find out there are no more retailers left for ya to do so though!!!!!
oz would probably be able to buy 3 different sizes from the US for the price of one from here, then sell the two that don’t fit on ebay/gumtree.
Mizu - I understand all that, but it doesn’t make it right! - why should I only have to purchase from a limited supply?
And actually overseas you can buy two pairs of something and send back the pair that don’t fit (you could do it from here but it becomes cost prohibitive)
I can think of nothing more exciting than being able to do that! To never have to go into another fitting room ever is a dream!
Snap Cords!
Just tellin ya what the future holds!!!!!
Enjoy!!!!!
just saying that doing the above is fine by me, I don’t feel like I miss out on anything…and I don’t think that is gonna change for the people younger than us, either. If anything they’ll be more savvy and less in need of shop service.