Australia Post costs to high

In this lucky land we live in, when it comes to shopping we are not so lucky our vastly separated country means transportation costs are far greater, we have less competition because our neighbouring cities are to far apart that we can't jump in the car and drive to the next city coz it it cheaper and thus force prices down in our own cities.

When it comes to ebay it goes hand in hand with postage and while the consumer might get a good taste of competitive trading it is still leaves a bad taste in their mouth by the shear cost of sending parcels in this country and on top of that the time factor.

With population increases comes more flights, more trucks and therefore you would think make it quicker to stick a parcel on the any number of flights, trucks or trains moving about the country. You would think so anyway however it still takes a minimum of 5 working days to get a parcel from the centre of Perth to the centre of Sydney, if it takes 1 day to get it delivered locally where the hell does it sit for 4 days?

The Hong Kong ebayers now flood ebay.com.au offering things at prices we can not make with delivery times that are not far off ours. Whats more because the cost of goods are more expensive in this country they give us a higher price, if you don't believe me go and price match buying an identical item ebay.com vs ebay.com.au with international postage you will find we are paying more for the same item from the same place.

Oh and top of the Australian ebay seller get shafted by all these things, an Ebay Australia does not offer any discounts whatsoever to its powersellers, so whether they sell 1 item a week or 10,000 items they will always pay top dollar for fees unlike Hong Kong, US, UK, France..