The Jaycar Story, How Australians are being ripped off

In Australia it is customary for businesses to rip off their customers.

This is usually done in a number of ways:

• Unnecessary increasing prices of products
• Forcing/conditioning customers to purchase “extended warranties” on products
• Charging inflated amounts for accessories, which are quietly bundled with the item at point of sale
• Charging inflated amounts for services such as instillation or commissioning

The pathetic retailer blames their high prices by:

• Justifying their inflated prices on overheads such as rent and employment of inefficient “customer service” staff
• Justifying their inflated prices on the geographical isolation that Australia is within
• Endearing to promote Australian jobs even though the majority of goods sold are manufactured in China
• Blaming fixed variables such as local taxes put on goods and services

A current example of the price mark-up Australians experience becomes apparent when goods are purchased from a Australian reatiler, Jaycar.

Wholly integrated and operated from New South Whales, Australia; this company also sells the same products to the USA through the American Jaycar online retail website.

Below is two screenshots of a Helicopter toy, one from the AU site and the other from the US site. Exactly the same item, same order number...

As you can see, the US price is $112USD and the AU price is $179AU respectively.

Given that the Australian exchange rate is currently $0.93AU to $1.00USD, there seems to be approximately a $75 difference between the same products being dispatched from the same location.

Given these facts, a point of truth has been realised and it is simply not to shop at Jaycar any-more.

You call yourself a Australian company? You fail, rip off!!!

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