Originally Posted by 531Aussie
WOAH, WOAH!!!!!
I hate to be a killjoy, Uncle Bob, but while $10,000 AUS
does = $7,724 US (right at this minute), $7.7K
in the U.S. buys A LOT, LOT, LOT more bike than $10K AUS
in Australia
for eg, the Carbon Cervelo Soloist frame-set only (!!) is
on special at Glen Parker Cycles (I assume you're in Perth?) for $5,150, which is $4000 US!
http://www.glenparker.com/specials.html
the Time VXRS frame-set retails down here for over $8000, but is occasionally "on special" for $7000 AUS
http://www.webcycle.com.au/details.php?ID=20
Does this mean I should get into the grey market smuggling of high end bike frames into Australia? Do you guys have a crazy import tariff on frames, or are the distributors just marking them up by a huge percentage?
At those prices you could pay somebody to fly back and forth between Los Angeles and Sydney with frames in their checked luggage and still make a profit.
Step 1) Buy Cervelo R3 or Soloist Carbon five at a time in Canada
Step 2) Hide in shipment of something else to Australia
step 3) profit