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Carbatec have it listed at $700. Perhaps you could try the Bunnings 10% off a better offer deal!

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Carbatec have it listed at $700. Perhaps you could try the Bunnings 10% off a better offer deal!

I realise you could get a very good deal maybe $630 but why? the green bag only want the whole market, give them the sale and eventually maybe Carbatec go belly up.

Ok I live in country and only get to city few times a year but detest the green snot. I;ll support local and small business when ever and wherever I can.

We are complaing about multi conglomorates eating the country and yet there is a compulshion to get the cheapest price possible.
and yes I buy regular from Ebay but only thing I cannot get in Oz.

I usually buy at the local hardware store (Mitre 10) rather than Bunnings. The staff are knowledgeable and helpful and for the most part, prices are pretty close to Bunnings.
Carbatec has also gotten a lot of my money over the last couple of years

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Carbatec have it listed at $700. Perhaps you could try the Bunnings 10% off a better offer deal!

I'd bet that the boxed product numbers will be different, therefore they are "different" products, hence no 10% off deal.

Originally Posted by Vernonv

I'd bet that the boxed product numbers will be different, therefore they are "different" products, hence no 10% off deal.

Yep, every time I have tried the "we will beat it by 10%" they find a way to weasel out of it. Different numbers is one of their favourites.

Doug

I have a fairly low opinion of Mitre 10 stores around me. Most fall into variety store status. Especially the newer ones under 20 years old and located inside shopping malls or other retail hub. Bunnies at least has a bigger range of cheap and nasty.

There are two older Mitre 10 stores near me (surviving I guess) that cater to the building trades, but they only know and stock items in demand. That's realistic and not a criticism but it does mean you can't ask for an left handed inverted cascading widget without getting a blank stare.

As for using differences between labelling or packaging as an excuse not to price-match, retailers have been using those excuses with bedding and whitegoods since I've been buying them for myself, probably longer. I have a good friend who works for Bunnies in Special Orders. He tells me that some manufacturers simply will not sell identical items to them to protect other wholesale customers and dealers. I believe him because I knew this was common practice with genuine (ienot 3rd party) agricultural spare parts years ago.

I wonder if the people who always protest that they always buy "local" have any home brand type packaged groceries in their larder that come from Thailand or South Africa or China or whether they only buy Golden Circle or SPC, or Safcol etc.


I am a very, very, very small shareholder in Westfarmers who own Bunnings. I come from convict stock dating back to 1806 in Australia. Is that local enough for you? Why won't you buy from Bunnings which I part own? What have you got against locally owned companies like Bunnings?


As for the 10% price guarantee, I have been pleased to use it several times - on things as big as a 12" Makita SCMS. On each occasion that I have used it, the staff have been delighted to do the deal and very cheerful about it. Of course the product has to be the same exactly but that is standard retail practice going back as far as you can remember and before that.




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Originally Posted by Charleville

I am a very, very, very small shareholder in Westfarmers who own Bunnings. I come from convict stock dating back to 1806 in Australia. Is that local enough for you? Why won't you buy from Bunnings which I part own? What have you got against locally owned companies like Bunnings?
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A very good point Charleville.

Originally Posted by Charleville

I wonder if the people who always protest that they always buy "local" have any home brand type packaged groceries in their larder that come from Thailand or South Africa or China or whether they only buy Golden Circle or SPC, or Safcol etc.

You forgot a few. But it makes no difference - your point is worth making.

It's hard to stay 100% local in every way. You need to read labels, follow the company information trails and sometimes go to different products or even without, in order to truly stay local.

To be honest, with supermarket goods, sometimes we choose to do without when the company or product come from OS. Sometimes we just go with the flow.

Every once in a while I check labelling to see if country of origin has changed too. Occasionally they just sneak in a long term change that has nothing do do with just seasonal availability.



Back to the topic as posted .....
Does anyone know just where the two WC2000 from Bunnies and CarbaTec come from anyway ? I wonder if that goes some way towards explaining the pricing.

I have to agree with Charleville, what is the problem with Bunnings?
They are out to make money, just like your local hardware store.
They employ locals, just like the local hardware store.
They buy in bulk, get a better price and pass some of that on, just like the local as part of Mitre 10 / Home etc.
They have a large range, just like?

It's amazing how many poo poo Bunnings and then claim how wonderful Aldi is because they are taking on the majors.
Aldi are foreign owned, only sell high turnover products, so they don't have stock sitting idle. Are mostly home branded and therefore squeezing local manufacturers because if they can;t make it cheaper someone else will.

I have taken this thread off topic so my apologies for that but I shall add just one more really good thing about Bunnings.


Have you ever noticed the age of the staff?


Yes - they are one of the few employers in Australia who seem to embrace the hiring of older experienced workers.


At my local Bunnings, there was a very old frail looking lady named Joan whose hair changed colour from blue of pinkish-orange every now and then. However, if ever you wanted to know something about her area of speciality then Joan was the staffer that you wanted to talk to - if you had the time to stand in the queue to get to her. Her knowledge of hardware was superb.


A few months ago, I had not seen her for a while and mentioned that to the meeter and greeter at the front of the store and was told that Joan had retired. The meeter and greeter also mentioned that Bunnings actually have staff in their eighties employed in the company somewhere.


It seems to me that Bunnings is a business with a social conscience and we ought to support them accordingly.


[Apart from owning a few shares in Wesfarmers, I have no links with Bunnings.]


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Originally Posted by Charleville

I have taken this thread off topic so my apologies for that but I shall add just one more really good thing about Bunnings.

[Apart from owning a few shares in Wesfarmers, I have no links with Bunnings.]


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I'll take it even further off topic!

When the Coles group was up for sale, Wesfarmers was in a consortium with two other overseas bidders. When those other two pulled out due to the GFC, Wesfarmers continued alone and won. If it wasn't for the Wesfarmers bid, Coles, Officeworks, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars, Kmart, and Target would now all be owned by one of the other bidders; all of which were foreign companies. Imagine how much overseas product would be in Coles then, and how much money would potentially be going out of Australia.

I am a Wesfarmers employee, like nearly 300,000 other Australians.

Sorry, back on topic.

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Carbatec have it listed at $700. Perhaps you could try the Bunnings 10% off a better offer deal!

I can confirm that bunnings will honour the 10% discount because I just purchased a workcentre last week. Bunnings special ordered via kincrome who had it priced at over $1k. Paid $630, delivered to store in 3 days for pickup.

Originally Posted by htou

I can confirm that bunnings will honour the 10% discount because I just purchased a workcentre last week. Bunnings special ordered via kincrome who had it priced at over $1k. Paid $630, delivered to store in 3 days for pickup.

Over $1000 for a Workcentre. Add a circular saw and you are well in table saw territory. Crazy!

Originally Posted by htou

I can confirm that bunnings will honour the 10% discount because I just purchased a workcentre last week. Bunnings special ordered via kincrome who had it priced at over $1k. Paid $630, delivered to store in 3 days for pickup.

I bet its only a matter of time before bunnings tells kinchrome that they need a separate stock number for a wc2000 than what they supply to other retailers so that they dont have to price match