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| I found an Osram HCI-TS 70W/930 at illuminationlamps.com, but I can't buy it, because the order is of 21.69euro and it refuses to get orders lower than 29.90euro.
What it should be means?
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| Many shops have a minimum order amount. The man hours used to find the product in the warehouse, grab it and package it cost more than the profit margin on the products makes them.
Solution is simple: add a few other things.
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| The problem is that 1€=3.75NIS and 1₤=4.27NIS and 1$=3.25NIS.
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I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.
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| Still the same amount of money though, just as $1 AUD has the buying power of 0.50 GBP.
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| 29.90 EUR is equal to 1379.59 Uruguayan peso.
It has the same buying power.
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The cost is high in NIS.
The cost is just as high in euro as in your own currency (minus any conversion cost). It's just a different number. If i were to order, i'd pay the exact same amount of money, just in a different currency. Minimum order fees of 25 or 30 euro aren't too common. It's usually either nothing, or 50 or 150 euro for stores that supply predominantly professionally used goods. In general, they do actually take on smaller orders, but you can then expect a 10 or 15 euro small order fee added to your bill. |
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| So why eBay prices are very high in NIS?
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| Either because your currency is 'weak' on the international market, or because things just are expensive in every currency.
That 30 euro is between 1 and 2 hours of work for an average person in the netherlands. If you are rich enough to buy domestically produced stuff and groceries, and to pay rent without thinking twice, but the foreign stuff is prohibitively expensive, your currency is "weak". In other words, it has less value to the international market.
How many hours do you have to work for a week's worth of mostly domestically or regionally produced groceries?
And how many for the 30 euro worth of foreign lamps?
Devaluation can happen for many reasons. One reason which is large corporate or even state investors moving away from stuff like the israeli weapons industry.
The Netherlands has been under significant pressure to find other weapons systems than the ones we usually buy from Israel, because our citizens don't want to be paying tax money for stuff bought from a government that commits atrocities.
It is then up to the citizens of said country to protest their government to get their act together, and win the foreign investors back.
This is of course hugely simplified. But a similar thing happened in Russia - but Russia has the benefit of supplying a LOT of oil and natural gas we can't easily replace, which helps to keep their rubels valuable because they get the euros and dollars into their country which helps their government to pay for foreign stuff on the international market. We're already buying more gas from the USA, but shipping gas across the atlantic is pretty damn expensive.
What number it shows is not important. What is important is how many hours you gotta work for it.
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| The exchange rate of 3-4 NIS for 1 USD is in fact not inflated in the last years beacuse of the wars etc, and is in fact quite stable. I remember being in Israel circa year 2017 and having roughly the same exchange rate...
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| In fact, hitting a MOQ is rather frequent painful experience buying something from a light distributor mostly interested in selling thousands of lamps in a lot.
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Sorry to go off subject, but I'm pretty sure this topic should be moved to general discussion, not web finds, since it doesn't list the findings of a lighting product, but rather a problem with a lighting retailer. If I'm wrong, I'll remove this comment at once. Again sorry if I'm wrong or if this inconveniences anyone.
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| Yeah it's a pretty common thing for most businesses that cater mostly to B2B/industrial sales, either a MOQ or a minimum order amount. Some might even refuse to sell to individuals and sell only to those with trade accounts. Fortunately with online sales, most places will sell to individuals now with a MOQ or a minimum order amount.
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