Thread: A right royal rogering - Nightforce

Originally Posted by vulcannz

I have worked extensively in the import business (not firearms, but tech), as both a retailer, a distributor and for a vendor (manufacturer). The cold hard truth is NZ sales amount to sweet fa of nothing. For most vendors operating in NZ is simply not worth it, and the NZ distees buy less than a typical single store in the USA. And that was in tech, not the firearms market where I suspect rules and regulations make it more difficult.

This in a nutshell explains the 'parallel importing' arguments that happen in NZ. It's by far cheaper for a NZ company to go overseas, purchase a bulk lot of a product at retail discount in country 'A' who moves more than the entire NZ annual consumption in a few days (and who is also geographically close to the manufacturer/lead distributor) and then box it up and freight forward privately to NZ. Often they are getting a higher spec product than what is presented locally by the approved distributor and at a significant discount, which allows them the luxury of either selling at a significant discount and moving bulk product undercutting the official channel, or selling a higher rated product at a slightly lower price and making more off each item. The issue comes from the integrity of the parallel importer and how they handle warranty issues...