Australian Products - cheaper abroad

[Cruiser Elite]

Following on from cove's thread re Grange in London - thought i might just start a thread dedicated to various Australian products that AFF members have seen / purchased / enjoyed whilst abroad at cheaper or really competitive prices compared to Australia.

I have a couple - I used to regularly enjoy Crown Lager at RMB25/bott (A$4) at The Den Bar and Restaurant in Beijing - [video]http://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/The-Den[/video] - being in Beijing up to 50 nights/year was fabulous\to enjoy my favourite beer in the best expat bar in Beijing - turned many a guy from USA, Germany etc onto Crown - try buying Crown in any bar in Australia for $4.

In March 2010 a group of us travelled to Las Vegas / New Orleans to celebrate 40th b/day of one of my nieces - whilst in NO we enjoyed Tony Morans Restaurant - [video]http://www.tonymorans.com/[/video] - on the wine list was Penfolds Bin 389 at US$35 I think - cheaper than you could buy it at Dan's at that time - they only had 2 botts on hand but we soon drained them.

No doubt many of you learned intrepid travellers will have similar stories?

 

[Boris spatsky]

Was in a wine shop in Bruges, Belgium recently and all top shelf Aussie wines were significantly cheaper than here, even cheaper than Dan Murphys. So frustrating.

 

[ButFli]

Yeah, riding Amtrak across north western USA in December 2009 they were selling Penfolds St Henri for $5 a glass. That's well under half what you'd pay in a bottle-o (assuming 6 glasses per bottle etc). Preeeetty sure someone had made a mistake somewhere because other trains were carrying Penfolds Koonunga Hill and selling for the same price. Their mistake was my gain, though.

 

[Mal]

Just about anything.

Medical... Vitamins, toothpaste, creams etc.
Cigarettes... How aus made cigs can be sold overseas duty free for 1/4 of the price i don't know.
Food... Too many to list.
Alcohol... Too many to list.

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[Princess Fiona]

Yeah, riding Amtrak across north western USA in December 2009 they were selling Penfolds St Henri for $5 a glass. That's well under half what you'd pay in a bottle-o (assuming 6 glasses per bottle etc). Preeeetty sure someone had made a mistake somewhere because other trains were carrying Penfolds Koonunga Hill and selling for the same price. Their mistake was my gain, though.

That's a great story

 

[cove]

I think Australian products can be priced in Australia at premium prices and the makers seem to be able to get away with it.
You have to be careful in America running alcohol across State borders as each of their 50 States want their tax share.
If you are leaving for Australia from say Dallas or Los Angeles it would be safe to buy alcohol in that particular State of Texas or California.
Australian alcohol is heavily taxed so it looks really bad when you can cut about 40 per cent off by buying overseas.

 

[Simo]

Johnny Walker Black label 1.125L was cheaper in some shops than at Philippines Duty Free Shop. Paid just under $30AUD

Black Angus steak was between 3 and 5 AUD at a steak house in Iloilo City PHP and better quality than what we get here as well.

 

[Dismounted]

Just about anything.

Medical... Vitamins, toothpaste, creams etc.
Cigarettes... How aus made cigs can be sold overseas duty free for 1/4 of the price i don't know.
Food... Too many to list.
Alcohol... Too many to list.

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List still seems a bit small.

Chuck technology, books, PETROL (not everywhere though!), etc. in there as well.

 

[dajop]

Just a very small sample, at my local supermarket here in Singapore, I often notice Australian produced fruit & veg (particularly carrots for some reason), Pura branded milk, Original Juice OJ, some Australian produced margarines and even some honeys for the same price or less than in Australia. Brand for brand often cheaper in Singapore than in Woolies/Coles, but usually you can get generic brands of the same products in Australian supermarkets cheaper. There are even times I've seen beef (but never lamb) for around the same or less, but always hard to compare on quality grounds.

 

[StevePER]

I remember noticing Mars bars cheaper in Hanoi than in Australia.

 

[haydensydney]

When I was a smoker it would really bother me that a carton of cigarettes at Duty Free in Australia/New Zealand was ~$80 whereas the same carton in Asia/Middle East/Fiji was $15.

 

[samh004]

When I was a smoker it would really bother me that a carton of cigarettes at Duty Free in Australia/New Zealand was ~$80 whereas the same carton in Asia/Middle East/Fiji was $15.

Aren't you still a smoker?

My dad commented the other day that a 6-pack of Little Creatures (beer from WA) was cheaper in Hong Kong than at our local. Go figure.


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[jdlover23]

Alcohol is always the easiest to spot the difference, I was floored and thrilled that at my local Costco in LA I can get 1.75L of Jack Daniels for 29.99! Same size grey goose around $44, absolut vodka $23 1.75L

 

[cove]

That explains the Vodka bottles in our freezer and that big bottle of JD in the pantry of our LA apartment!
Americans must get shocked at our alcohol prices when they visit Australia.

 

[medhead]

Cigarettes... How aus made cigs can be sold overseas duty free for 1/4 of the price i don't know.

Your being sarcastic, right? You don't think the fact they aren't charging australian taxes overseas adequately explains the price difference?


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[Mal]

Your being sarcastic, right? You don't think the fact they aren't charging australian taxes overseas adequately explains the price difference?

I was comparing duty free to duty free.





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[serfty]

I was comparing duty free to duty free.
...

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....ty-free-liquor-airports-31533.html#post462646

That litre bottle of 40% spirit as a tax/excise component of $33+ and that's before you add the cost of merchandising. It's even worse with tobacco - a 250 cigarette carton has tax/excise of over $100.

 

[eastwest101]

Premium australian beef (rib eye fillets) in the supermarket about 3/4 the price in Japan as they are in Australia (and exceptional quality as well).

 

[drewbles]

Was in a wine shop in Bruges, Belgium recently and all top shelf Aussie wines were significantly cheaper than here, even cheaper than Dan Murphys. So frustrating.

I see the same with NZ wines in the UK. I can frequently pickup a bottle of a good Marlborough Sav Blanc in Tesco Express for around £8 a bottle. The same bottles here in AU I pay around $17-18 for.

Something's just wrong there, and it's not just the taxes. How they can transport it literally to the other end of the earth, and sell it at a profit there for that price indicates that we're being shafted

 

[spudseamus]

I see the same with NZ wines in the UK. I can frequently pickup a bottle of a good Marlborough Sav Blanc in Tesco Express for around £8 a bottle. The same bottles here in AU I pay around $17-18 for.

Something's just wrong there, and it's not just the taxes. How they can transport it literally to the other end of the earth, and sell it at a profit there for that price indicates that we're being shafted

+1!!!!!!!!!