Reply To: GW Once Again Taking a Giant Dump on Retailers

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I’m really sorry, but I’m not following the gist of what you’re saying.

Are you saying that Australia has received only the one box, or that this one retailer has only received one box?

I genuinely don’t understand ‘Oh but covid oh but we didn’t have time’ – are those separate statements or is the suggestion the release was rushed due to covid?

On the Australia and NZ issue, I’ve a chum with a vineyard in Oz and when he posts me a crate of wine for ‘Christmas’ I usually receive it in about March. Moving things around is expensive and time consuming and when the market is much smaller (and yes, if there’s more choice, there’s more sales) it necessarily makes selling in Australia more expensive. I’m sure there are folk willing to buy the box in the UK and post it to Australia/New Zealand. I do this with a ‘shopper’ in Japan for weird electronics.

Equally though, buying – for example – Hot Toy 1/6th scale models in Australia is cheaper than posting to the UK – admittedly, most of that is offensive import duties and taxes, but that’s a different complaint.