Bankers – Trading online in Australia in the hobby business is pretty cut-throat.
The large established bricks and mortar stores (Frontline Hobbies, Hobbyco, Radio Models) all offer exceptionally competitive prices and stock levels through their online presence compared to what you or I could do when dealing through the Aussie “official” importers.
Quite a few people import from HK direct and resell but you’ll need a lot of cash up front to make a go of it and a lot of contacts.
The big problem is supply and demand. I sold my first bit char-g on e-bay for over AU$180 but these days you’d be lucky to get an AU$30 cost price covered.
People like Bithed succeed becuase they work hard at building customer loyalty at prioces that are ‘fair’. Most of bitheds customers buy from him time after time becuase he doesn’t overcharge, but att he same time he’s good to deal with, answers his e-mails promptly and always does his best. If he’d slip up with that he’d go down quicker than the titanic.
ausmicro.com traded online for a while and it was a lot of work for quite low margins, we then handed over our online sales to another company that did quite well with it.
Woudl I go back to selling online? Yup – it will happen. Will we sell what we did last time? Nope.
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Like the new quote too mate… but IS it in place??:clown: Rather not know… :dead: