Thread: Will COVID-19 change your purchasing decisions?

Originally Posted by Woody

There has to be an accounting and a reckoning.

No doubt. We’ll have to get out of lockdown first though....emergency powers and all that...


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The COL fucked it up. We warned them. Cinders was focused on Burqa-virtue. You can disagree. Whatever.

Originally Posted by sightpicture

The COL fucked it up. We warned them. Cinders was focused on Burqa-virtue. You can disagree. Whatever.

Not disagreeing. Just gotta make the right moves going forward whilst taking on board the lessons of the past. I not saying ‘THEY’ will but yeah....


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Originally Posted by sightpicture

The COL fucked it up. We warned them. Cinders was focused on Burqa-virtue. You can disagree. Whatever.

Again, in the context of what other governments (say australia or the states) are doing what our government has done is far more effective. Sure its not perfect but its hardly like they have a crystal ball.

I thought the border should have been shut to all non-citizens/residents much sooner, but that had to be balanced against harm to New Zealanders due to economic factors. There are still people saying the effects of lockdown are going to be worse than the virus itself. I don't agree, but it is a valid opinion. I'm glad I don't have to make those decisions.

Back to the topic. I find another issue is being able to see items locally. I like to buy good quality shit. And often not just go with the norm etc. Trying to find a set of Leica Ultravids recently was quite difficult. And locals require you to buy it to get it in for you. Luckily I found the last set at a local photography shop. Happy to pay a little more than I could get them online. But in cases where they are just going to order them I may as well do it myself. I have been buying a few things from a local provider recently. I asked whether they could query about an item and they made it seem a huge hassle. I had taken a $400 hit buying things from them I could get online for a lot less. I obviously feel like I've done them a favour and feel they should maybe show a bit more euthasiuasm in helping because if I can buy it online for 400 less in NZ they made atleast that much or better sharpen up on business as I'm not happy to pay for poor business decisions just to buy local.

Also on niche items like I'm looking at setting up a bow at the moment and we don't have the options I want. And for the price of middle rate gear here I can bring in top of the line gear from the US for the same or less even with the shit conversion. Black Gold Sights aren't available here as far as I can tell we have limited rest options etc. I will buy my bow here as I can find most options here but I can't go try them all but luckily I tried a bunch in the US at Pro shops my cousin uses.

I'm a Montana Native so I often find myself supporting montana companies as they make some of the best gear hunting wise. I brought a Stone glacier pack when in Bozeman last year when I stopped in a the factory. They gave me a 10% professional discount as I said I was about to head to Canada wrangling then knocked of 5% extra. They spent half and hour fitting me and showing me all the features etc. Let me know which accessories weren't suitable for my intention, talked to me about the unlimited sheep hints etc. Then at checkout they told me to go pick out a short and it was free. I didn't need the shirt but it made me feel appreciated and I will talk them up any opportunity I get as the pack is awesome but more so the guys that run it are. Some local businesses could learn a lot from the US market.

It will change my purchasing decisions if the shit Im ordering from China goes missing in the mail like it did last year after the other bullshit event where Cinders turned NZ on its head.

I don't buy a lot new. Usually second hand.

I usually tend to buy stuff from nz retailers if the price is reasonable. I factor in the cost overseas and how long til I get it.

I prefer to have it straight away if they're reasonably priced and have a local human being that I can annoy if there's any issues as opposed to emails back and forth when they might not be obliged to do much for me.

Think you'll find what's on the retailers shelves today will be priced at as good as it gets. When the results of the $ kicks in prices will only go one way, UP.

You only need to look at the way freezers increased in price to see the lack of respect kiwi retailers have for their customers.

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It was easy to forecast.
The problem as I see it is with politics. It needed to get 'bad' enough to provide the mandate for lockdown.
If locked down or stopped all flights in and out of nz when the word got out of Wuhan there would have been he'll to pay with a 'completely unnecessary over reaction rhetoric'

I never said I would go back to shopping at Hunting and Fishing, I simply said there service would have been better and more reliable that what I got supporting the local guy.

Unless of course I was buying empty promises, deflections and excuses and blame shifting, in which case I got exactly what I was paying for in spades!!

So oil is at an 18 year low price wise, we cant use much of it at present , but where is the low fuel price we had 18 years ago?

Originally Posted by johnd

So oil is at an 18 year low price wise, we cant use much of it at present , but where is the low fuel price we had 18 years ago?

Fuel (the type one puts in their vehicle), is only part of the true purpose of oil. Plastics of all forms, the clothes (polyesters) you wear, the casings on your toaster, vacuum cleaner, even your contemporary rifle stock, all come from oil. So one is using it, one will continue to buy it.

Nothing ever goes back. It's a "progressive society".

those traders who've served me well prior to this -Ill stick by em -the rest well toilet paper...