Not disputing the logic, but things have already changed a lot in the market here.
I bought this (now) $1300 watch (was about $1400) for $420 (approx 30% of retail) delivered about 6 years ago.
http://www.citizenwatches.co.nz/prod...del/JR3090-58M
No doubt I could buy it cheaper now (if it was still available anywhere except NZ) but overseas stockists ran out of the old stock years ago and have a much flasher new model for about the same cost ($420 NZ upwards)
I'm all for Kiwi jobs and local businesses but not when I have to subsidise them by paying 250% more than the value of the goods that they want to sell to me.
How am I looking after my own (and my families) best interests when all these fine businesses and their fine employees must be propped up with 70% of the 60% of my income which the govt leaves me.
The answer is that I can't. I have to be selective about what I spend money on and how much I can get for my dollar. We all do.
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