Thread: Half price Lowa boots and others

i think part of the unfortunate situation here for us is that we are a market that is capable of paying premiums due to our economic prosperity, partly because we are stuck in a corner of the world and high pricing of imported items is a historical pattern we have lumped for years. the biggest risk to these premiums is probably what is being discussed here with offshore internet purchasing and they will be doing their best to maintain the status quo.
who knows whether it is the NZ retailers or Lowa itself holding the margin. i'd suspect that Lowa probably set the prices higher for this market than they would to the Lowa importer in Somalia for example... also, every supplier will do their best to screw down the middle man (importer) and keep it for themselves - and vice versa depending on who holds the balance of power in the relationship. and from what i understand (via friends who work for other brands) the brand owner will have some say in the final RRP pricing in market
but yep, its a big price difference i agree.

Historically higher prices in NZ were mainly based on profits vs sales volume due to small market size, freight due to geographical location in the world plays a minor part once you split the cost of shipment offer a few hundred sales.
The problem is local owned distributors start off wanting to make max profit margins from the limited available sales growth in NZ so to make it work they need to make more per unit and hence the inflated price compared to a larger market where they can make less per unit to make sustainable profit, however maybe if they reduced the margin per unit and sold them cheaper they might increase their sales volume by 30% and end up with larger overall profit, turnover and better market respect from customers. #greediscontrolling

I messaged Lowa on FB, and provided the link to the thread on the boots issue , If you look at the numbers viewed on the "other site " its well over 7000. Now that's a lot of potential customers...now pissed off potential customers ....at the end of the day its our money and we will spend it where we get the best value ... ! What I messaged lowa ...

Great boots but now unaffordable due to LOWA Germany blocking us from buying online through ( MY HUNTSHOP) ... bad move as your competitors such as MEINDL can still be purchased online. Read This LOWA...( inserted link to thread)