zafra52 wrote:Just a silly question. Is there a minimum price per order?
No.
Rooz wrote:i've noticed lately that ECS in particualr has really taken on grey market in pricing. poon's prices, (and any grey), for the first time since i can remember are not as attractive as they used to be.
It's not so much a change in attitude, I think, but more or less the current economic climate.
I suspect that the last few shipments NA received were when the PP was at around US$0.96, and that makes for very attractive local pricing. NA can hold stock brought in at that price while, in the last few weeks, the PP has dropped to US$0.81. That represents a significant chunk of change when pricing for items bought here has to be based on current forex rates, and thus Poon's - and anyone else's - prices must suffer as a result.
With the current state of the PP, it may well make sense to buy locally if the price differential isn;t all that great, provided, of course that local stock for what you're buying is readily available.
But of course there's a downside: if the PP doesn;t go back up in the next couple of weeks, local stock should also go up in price as they get newer stock purchased at current rates, and thus the price relativities will return to something more typical of what we've seen.
The bottom line for that is that if you want to buy local stock at a good price, now is probably as good a time as any, and a better time than most.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:31 am