{"id":217,"date":"2005-05-18T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-12-03T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T03:41:14","slug":"injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On the injustice of gear pricing and sales in the USA, and why I will find it very hard to return to Australian climbing gear prices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a sample, we will refer to the pricing of a Green Colarado Custom Hardware Alien.  In the US (from REI, for example), they retail at $US52.50.  In Australia, the RRP is $AUD148.50, equivalent to $US111.00.  <\/p>\n<p>We will now turn to the case of the red (number 1) C4 Black Diamond Camelot.  $US62.50 at REI, RRP in Australia of $US89.<\/p>\n<p>We may also note that I have NEVER seen an Alien 20% off in Australia, whereas I have purchased one for 20% off over here.  And Camelots are very rarely available for 20% off in Australia.  Here, it&#8217;s hard to find them full price (NOTE &#8211; possible exaggeration).<\/p>\n<p>Australian gear prices are unfortunately high.  I rest my case.  <\/p>\n<p>(I will accept orders for people who want me to buy them cheap gear; extra cut on top of gear price can come in the currency of Australian food &#8211; tim tams, freddos, caramello koalas, crunchies, natural confectionery etc are all welcome)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the injustice of gear pricing and sales in the USA, and why I will find it very hard to return to Australian climbing gear prices. As a sample, we will refer to the pricing of a Green Colarado Custom Hardware Alien. In the US (from REI, for example), they retail at $US52.50. In Australia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,341,540,539,256],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australia","tag-culture-shock","tag-gear-price","tag-injustice","tag-usa"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">australia<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">gear price<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">injustice<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">australia<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">culture shock<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">gear price<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">injustice<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"5","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 18.5.2005","modified":"Updated on 3.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 18.5.2005 1:27 pm","modified":"Updated on 3.12.2008 9:41 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}