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I think this may be another case of ARS (Antipodean Retailer Syndrome) A term I just made up and if I were just a little smarter I'd think of a word starting with E to complete the acronym. It seems in this part of the world a lot of retailers find it necessary to add really vast markups. It was probably always true but now that nearly everyone can check prices on the web it is obvious. I don't know how they justify it and I don't know how they stay in business (not all of them do, of course).
It isn't just books, DVDs and Electronics (though it is all of those). And it isn't just imports from far away. Case in point: we were in Melbourne a few years back and my wife bought some clothes. She saw the same outfit here a few months later for at least twice the price, maybe more, I forget. But she was buying retail in Melbourne and looking at retail here.
I'd be interested to hear their justification for the extra, I really would. But I note it is getting better slowly. DVDs used to be silly prices here in NZ, now we are okay buying from local outfits instead of Amazon.
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