Thread: Carbatec in Canberra is now Blue Dingo

Sqizz, last time I was west of Meekathara I popped into the Gascoyne Junction pub for a pie.

We then hopped on our bikes and rode north, north east to Mt Augustus. You know that little monolith which is 2½ times bigger than Ayres Rock.

Great place, great scenery and beautiful country.

Plenty of things to see, open your eyes!

Mick.

Mick, Yes, the big Boondy, know it well. As a kid I nearly died in the Billabong on the East side. 44 degree day, so jumped in to swim across, only just made it to the other side with thermal shock (artesian spring at about 5 degrees) (There is a camping ground with toilets now:eek: ).

What was this thread about???...Pancakes anyone

Cheers

I guess I'm pretty well qualified to comment on this, as I am the owner. We decided several months ago to cease being part of the CARBA-TEC group, for a variety of reasons, but the main one was that we wanted independence, to carry products other than the CARBA-TEC ones. Our agreement with CARBA-TEC stated that we shouldn't import goods that directly compete against the goods that CARBA-TEC import and that we should not buy our stock from competitors of CARBA-TEC, and fair enough too, if one is part of a group then you pull with the group.

With tremendous growth of the business in recent years it has become important for us to have more control of our buying, we really need to do more of our buying direct and be able to cut out one more middle man. We think that the old line of supply, ie. Manufacturer - Wholesaler - Retailer is probably coming to an end, and that to survive in this industry in the future we must become more competitive and wherever possible source our stock direct from the manufacturer.

So in a nutshell, if we had carried through with our future plans it would have contravened the agreement that we had with CARBA-TEC.

What of the future, and how these changes affect our customers, well for a start we still carry product from CARBA-TEC despite the fact that we are no longer officially part of the group we parted on ammicable terms. Visitors to the store will notice that there are some new brands starting to appear on the shelves a most of which we have sourced directly from local and overseas manufacturers , later this year and early next we will start importing a lot of our own higher turnover machinery lines, the slower moving lines we will still source from local importers including CARBA-TEC, Timbecon, Leeda, WMS, etc. The store is still at 6/145 Gladstone Street in beautiful downtown Fyshwick ACT the phone number is still 6280 0620 and the same same ugly blokes still work there.

The name Blue Dingo has been around for some time with our other business "Blue Dingo Motorcycle Apparel" so it seemed natural to use it for the woodworking tool business too ( someone sugested that we should start a "Blue Dingo Childminding Service" )

There, now you know, there's no need to start rumors or any other nonsence.

Cheers

Graeme

There, now you know, there's no need to start rumors or any other nonsence.

Damn

Thanks Graeme.

Although I live in Sydney, and therefore am not as likely as a Canberran to be purchasing from you, your explaination of the situation is appreciated.

It's also a very good way to scotch rumour and innuendo.

Cheers
Craig

Originally Posted by Graeme

I guess I'm pretty well qualified to comment on this, as I am the owner.

Given the posts prior to this, would you classify this as the hijack.... what the hell is he doing posting on topic...

By the way Neil I think it might be safe to say that Graeme is a director of the company and might appear on the stand at the Canberra show........

Done any plane comparisons lately Graeme.....

Originally Posted by Graeme

There, now you know, there's no need to start rumors or any other nonsence.

Graeme,

Thanks for owning up! Thanks for hanging round too, hope you continue to do so, specially to let us know when your web-catalogue is up and running.

As for your quote above: Rumours are one thing, but if you won't allow the nonsense, what's left???

Cheers,

P

Good for you Graeme, I hope you prosper in the future.


Al

Yep, definitely nice to think somebody cares enough about this motly bunch to fill us in. Well done Graeme

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Good for you Graeme, I hope you prosper in the future.


Al

I'll second that and hope to see you soon when I go and see Numbat (in the territory where my taxes are spent so well) so that I can spend a little of what was left.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Graeme,

specially to let us know when your web-catalogue is up and running.

Ok. we have been messing around with the beginnings of a web cattledog, have a look if you like, your thoughts and criticism are welcome, it is not ready to go live yet by a long shot, it still has the CARBA-TEC logo in the header and not many products in the data base, the address is www.bluedingo.com.au/tools This is time consuming and we do what we can to build it when we get time, but I hope to have something reasonable in six to nine months. Thanks all for the kind wishes, very much appreciated.

Cheers
Graeme

Graeme ,

Do you have full Ubeut range of products in store ?

Originally Posted by aabb

Graeme ,

Do you have full Ubeut range of products in store ?

Pretty much, we have stocked uBeaut for about ten years, a little low on Traditional Wax at the moment though.