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pooch · 10-01-2014, 11:59 AM

Some costs in USA are fantastic.

Like us looking thru a model A catalogue and seeing the prices of parts, it is like us looking thru a 1980/s catalogue , (and without the GST tax ), to see a bag of 100 stainless bolts for maybe 9 bucks is like christmas to us, we would pay 6 or more times that amount here .

But there are some ripoffs are in USA too, last motorhome trip we did, we got a flat tyre, renters don't supply a jack or wheelbrace, had to ring for service.

A guy shows up in a ute with a wheelbrace, a jack, a tension wrench and a compressor .

He changes the tyre in about 15 minutes, the bill .........$135 wowwww, one and a half hours at $90 an hour , for a semi -skilled tyre jockey.

Glad I wasn't paying the bill.

10-01-2014, 11:59 AM	#12
pooch Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South Coast NSW Australia Posts: 2,596	Re: Overseas Freight Charges - particularly to Australia Some costs in USA are fantastic. Like us looking thru a model A catalogue and seeing the prices of parts, it is like us looking thru a 1980/s catalogue , (and without the GST tax ), to see a bag of 100 stainless bolts for maybe 9 bucks is like christmas to us, we would pay 6 or more times that amount here . But there are some ripoffs are in USA too, last motorhome trip we did, we got a flat tyre, renters don't supply a jack or wheelbrace, had to ring for service. A guy shows up in a ute with a wheelbrace, a jack, a tension wrench and a compressor . He changes the tyre in about 15 minutes, the bill .........$135 wowwww, one and a half hours at $90 an hour , for a semi -skilled tyre jockey. Glad I wasn't paying the bill.