• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    25 days ago

    Those sellers should be ashamed to charge few $100 more and taking advantage of this situation.

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      25 days ago

      Yeah, those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss, just so people in Australia can get it for the same price

      /s

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        25 days ago

        You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.

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          25 days ago

          No one forces you to buy from them, they are providing a service of convenience. If you think their prices are a “scam” you can take the time, effort and money to import one yourself

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            25 days ago

            Yeah exactly, don’t want to pay that price? Sort it yourself. Everyone that complained about the price of shit needs to understand this.

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            25 days ago

            This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.

            My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:

            those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss

            Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.

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          24 days ago

          A hundred more on a thousand dollar device sounds exactly like the 10% duty we pay on things we import