[modeleng] Re: Prices

TEL wrote:
> Yep, the 'murricans certainly have it good price-wise. By the same token,
> spare a little pity for us deep southeners - I find it cheaper to buy (as
> well as a greater range) BA fasteners from EKP and pay the o/s postage.
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>> A pal has just returned from a holiday in the US, and bought back a load
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> of
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>> catalogues.
>> I am astounded at how low prices are in America compares to what we have
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>> pay.
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>> If you compare Harbor Freight with Machine Mart, for products that appear
>> identical, and probably are as so much is made in China, the US price is
>> between 35% and 50% of the UK price.
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>> Looking at Grizzly, most things are half what we pay, some much less.
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>> Sadly, he only bought back catalogues and not cases full of goodies!
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>> http://www.alanstepney.info
>> Alan Stepney's Model Engineering, steam, and workshop pages.
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Hi gang!
About those prices, you don't have to look that far!
for instance: a little lathe say the C1, sold by Clarke, in the UK, cost 
the same in (n) Euro's on the mainland, as it does in Sterling the UK!!
Add some 50-70 £ to that for carriage, and you still make a tidy profit....

Patrick



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