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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Books have been much more expensive in Australia for quite a long time. I have bought books in Canada which had prices in AUS/CAD/US/UK on the spine. The Australian price was always close to double the CAD one and their dollar was worth more. This is going back at least 30 years IIRC.
I asked an Australian friend who went back every two years if this was the case with all goods, and she told me no. It was often the case with imported items, but even books printed in Australia, which the one I asked her about was, were sold high in Australia but would be shipped to other countries and sold cheaper there. Nothing to do with agency then.
Helen
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Yep, it's the Aus conundrum and quite frankly a lot of us are sick of it, including big business here who rightly complain about how much more it costs to buy microsoft and other IT related products here, for example.
In fact, I recall reading where it was cheaper by a country mile to fly an employee to the US to buy Adobe products there (from memory) than it was to buy the same product here. And the company did in fact do that!!