I guess to sum up all the pages so far, we in Australia feel we get the shaft on everything from petrol, boats, motors, tackle and just about every other product you care to name, some of it is due to distance and market share, some is due to Government taxes and some is due to what we perceive as greed by big dollar importers, so what do we do? we deal direct with countries that have better value for us, in the end, the importers will need to either lift their game or perish, some things we can do bugger all about, like petrol, you pay or you ride a bike! where will this take us long term? don't really know, but I kind of suspect small operators, like your local tackle store will just dry up, and we will be forced to go the Supermarkets to buy tackle and gear, and then lament the passing of an era, just like the corner store, the butcher and the milkman, all just memories from the past, it is happening all around us now, Bunnings closed down all the small independant hardware stores and so on, so we live with it, or we think of a viable alternative.