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Originally Posted by wannabee
Count the Australian cities in the list compared with others. There were more off the page and they only listed the top 50 most expensive cities in the world to live. A recent comparison of IKEA stores showed that Australians pay between 2 and 3 times the price of goods in those stores compared with the US or Sweden.
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And I thought Ikea was CHEAP compared to a lot of local stores!
The only book I have bought from an Australian bookstore recently was a university textbook (at rip-off prices) mainly because they were using one I couldn't source from Amazon. As more and more Australians learn to use online shopping services (and I would say the majority already do so) the retailers are going to have to compete or sink. And if ebooks have geographic restrictions on them they will soon learn how to by-pass this!