Thread: Buying scopes from America

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Well that's very interesting @Towely, because Optics Planet didn't used to.

So I just tried, and the transaction went through to the credit card stage, so yeah, looks like they will.

But here's the rub.

The price.

Total cost, shipped for a Vortex Viper PST Gen II 3-15x44 Second Focal Plane EBR-4 MOA Reticle: USD 957.

That's NZD 1,443 at Google exchange rate, not what your credit card would charge you.

Reloaders price for the exact same scope: NZD 1,459.

No prizes for guessing where I'd buy it from. I assume looking at this that Vortex has put some kind of price protection in place to ensure that international sales are roughly equal to local sales? Because that didn't used to be the case. When I bought three new rifles all together in Aus I tried to source Vortex scopes from the US from reputable dealers as they were so much cheaper, but failed, and I tried pretty hard.

@scottytrees is worth following up because I vaguely remember something along the same lines.

The dollar has dropped which makes quite a difference