{"id":1228,"date":"2015-08-26T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2015-08-26T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T05:57:16","slug":"yes-its-all-about-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It&#8217;s All About Competition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the same two books (technical) from five online stores:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>pearson.com AU $135.54 (including $13 U.S. SHIPPING) -> U.S.<br \/>\nbookdepository.com (free shipping) AU $149.xx -> U.K.<br \/>\nfishpond.com.au AU $155.64 (free shipping) -> Australian<br \/>\nangusrobertson.com.au AU $174.00 (free shipping) -> Australian<br \/>\nbooktopia.com.au AU $215.50 (free shipping) -> Australian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Subtracting 10% GST would be $140 or $156.60 or $193.95 respectively, so it\u2019s still cheaper for me to ship from the U.S. <em>Clearly<\/em> adding GST to online purchases below $1000 is <strong>ALL<\/strong> about making Australian Online Stores \/ Physical Stores competitive! <em>Also not to be sneezed at<\/em>, the fishpond.com.au price is 6% discount on one item, and 25% on the other <strong>HOWEVER<\/strong>, one of these items will ship from a U.K. supplier anyway! Booktopia.com.au tells me I&#8217;m getting 21% &#038; 18% discounts on the respective titles. <\/p>\n<p>No wonder people struggle to make sense out of these arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the same two books (technical) from five online stores: pearson.com AU $135.54 (including $13 U.S. SHIPPING) -> U.S. bookdepository.com (free shipping) AU $149.xx -> U.K. fishpond.com.au AU $155.64 (free shipping) -> Australian angusrobertson.com.au AU $174.00 (free shipping) -> Australian booktopia.com.au AU $215.50 (free shipping) -> Australian Subtracting 10% GST would be $140 or $156.60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}