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Originally Posted by bfi2906
Correct!
Ask a tyre retailer, especially an idependent, how much margin they make on a tyre - it's not very much. It's the local distributors - Michellin Aust, Continental Aust, etc that are doing the gouging, and they've been found out.
This is just like the Gerry Harvey bleatings of a year or so back - they're just pi$$ed that they've been found out, and people are going around them - Serve them right I say.
If you want to prove the point, get the retail price of a set of tyres here, and compare to Tyrerack (who will be making a margin in the quote), add 10% for GST, and assume the local retailer makes someting less than 20% (someone may be able to advise more accurately). You'll see where most of the $ is going. And NO, local freight when they deliver by the truck load isn't very much - so BS to that one too!
Pity is, their greed will end up costing Australians their jobs.
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