Reply To: CANZUK federation proposal

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GW will charge what GW will charge.  If their costs drop, I don’t think it will be passed on to the consumer, especially if GW are going to subsidise increased costs to Europeans – something I remember seeing on the GW website earlier this year.

I’ve found freight prices from the UK to NZ to be quite okay, before Brexit, something I attributed to the flow of trade that already existed.  If trade volumes increase, possibly allowing for a fall of costs, GW still is not likely to pass that on.

GW’s pricing structure for OZ and NZ was set ages ago, and hasn’t really changed, no matter what the exchange rate is.  I would only expect change if the Pound was doing so well or our dollars so badly, that GW was facing a fall in revenue from this side of the world, so had to put the prices up.

The real damage was done when GW realised that some customers were buying their goods cheaper via US and UK webstores than they could at local shops, so they changed things so that not only GW stores couldn’t sell outside of region, but other websites as well.

GW gotta GW.

NZ, Oz and Canada are already part of a much larger trading block – CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership).

To me, being an ex-Brit, living the vast majority of his life in NZ, the wish for a CANZUK “federation” seems more like wishful thing for those that want to turn the clock back.  When the UK entered the EEC, the rest of the Commonwealth that used to trade heavily with GB had to find new markets and new products that met the demands of those markets.  That is something that the UK will now have to do for themselves.  It took NZ decades to fill that hole – 50% of our exports went to the UK.

The UK has applied to be a member of CPTPP, since it still has a territory it that area (the Pitcairn Islands).

Other companies’ gaming products have been more exchange rate sensitive and those companies tend not to have the restrictive trading policies built into their agreements with distributors and retailers that GWdub does.