Companies will just keep over charging you as long as you are willing to pay. Instead of complaining, just don't buy it if you think the price is too high.
Street 500 pricing - Australia
Just did an amusing currency conversion. Based on the Street 750 being 5 lakh in India (yeah, I know its actually cheaper than that in reality) - the bike should be about $8908 Australian dollars.
Interesting that we are only getting the 500 here & not the 750, yet we told our price will be somewhere between $10-12 thousand dollars.
Typical Australian ripoff, everything you buy here is overpriced to **** & it gets worse every year.
Im still buying the bike!
Interesting that we are only getting the 500 here & not the 750, yet we told our price will be somewhere between $10-12 thousand dollars.
Typical Australian ripoff, everything you buy here is overpriced to **** & it gets worse every year.
Im still buying the bike!
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Just did an amusing currency conversion. Based on the Street 750 being 5 lakh in India (yeah, I know its actually cheaper than that in reality) - the bike should be about $8908 Australian dollars.
Interesting that we are only getting the 500 here & not the 750, yet we told our price will be somewhere between $10-12 thousand dollars.
Typical Australian ripoff, everything you buy here is overpriced to **** & it gets worse every year.
Im still buying the bike!
My understanding is that Australia is getting the 500 version first because of your LAM licenses (Learner Approved Motorcycle has limit of 650cc). And the price of 10,000-12,000 is your "ride away" price, what we Americans would call the "Out the Door price". Add sales tax, freight, dealer prep, doc fee, license, and registration to the USA price of $6700 on the Street 500 and we really pay about $8500 to ride the bike away. So if the price is $10,000 in Australia, that's only $1500 more than USA. Not as much of a ripoff as it seems at first.
so i guess even though their things are more expensive. life is not so bad!
I was on the verge of immigrating to Australia several years ago. What deterred me is their relationship to Great Britain, who's royalty and basic government I detest, and the continued presence of a British Governor General who is, according to the Australian Constitution "Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth" As such, the Governor-General is President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force, as well as Viceregal representative in the Australian Capital Territory. The functions of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers, and judges, giving Royal Assent to legislation, issuing writs for elections, and bestowing honours.[2] The constitution grants the Governor-General a wide range of powers, but, in practice, they follow the conventions of the Westminster system and responsible government and, with rare exceptions, act only on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia or other ministers or, in certain cases, Parliament. There has been one case in 1975 where the Governor General removed from office the elected Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.so i guess even though their things are more expensive. life is not so bad!
In other words Australia is not a sovereign nation. They remain subjects of the British monarchy and as such I could never live there.
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