Companies going into administration 12% higher than during GFC!

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Originally Posted by Auslandau

I own and operate an Australian family owned business and produce products that are Australian made and of high quality which I am extremely proud of. I compete against Bunnings and Masters and if my product is $5200.00 and they are $5,000 for a lower quality 100% imported from China product that is guaranteed to fall apart in a couple of years ..... people still choose to buy the product that is $200.00 cheaper. Happens all the time and very frustrating.

So what do you do? Drop your Australian made higher quality product to below the cheap crap? I can honestly say ...... the absolute majority do not care where things come from. All you get all day is "Can you match Bunnings or Masters?" Would love to say .... "If I take a hammer to mine and cheapen the crap out of it, sack a few people and import it all from China, I can!" People do not care .....

Totally agree, its all on the ticket price, nothing else matters,sad as it is
But what gets up my nose,people jump up and down about "Buy aussie made",yet drive their import,watch their import tellie,sitting on their import lounge,heating dinner in their import microwave,you get the picture