variflex wrote:It's pretty poor service and sadly I'm seeing a lot of local companies customer service become non existent,
I made a few purchases recently, one from a local supplier, who took 21 days to ship my item, they were only a half hour drive away, yet the other two significant purchases I made, one from China and the other from the U.S. both arrived within a week
Welcome to the 'reality' of the effects of globalisation folks. Retail in Australia is -screwed- unless the little OZZie Bleeder a.k.a. our Dollar has the 'arce' fall out of it again bigtime, which by the way, with the collapse in comodity prices is still a distinct possibility yet, as we move further into 2015. Couple that with our ridiculous local transport costs, and non-existent, or couldn't care a rat's arce about customer service, local attitudes, and is it any wonder people -prefer- to buy online from overseas vendors...? Unfortunately... I think there are still some tougher economic times yet to come, here in OZ for a whole lot of folks, unfortunately...