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December 30, 2008

Are we there yet?

Seems a lot of people are walking around post Christmas, post Boxing Day, pre-New Year. The retailers are reporting good sales figures. Is that because for months, now, we’ve been told that we should buy existing stock hoarded from the days of near parity AUD vs USD rates or is it because we feel that this is a last hurrah before February sanity hits?

There are crowds for sure, but the parking lots don’t look that full these days and shoppers are driving really hard bargains. Aussies are learning to negotiate and bargain – several times in the shops, the sales people have been overheard saying “I’ll do the best I can but I can’t do miracles”. I was helping a friend buy a Macbook (our first Mac buying experience) and unexpectedly I went into a Dick Smith’s who had it at AUD 2099 RRP and mentioned I had seen it at AUD 18xx – the salesgirl went away for a while and came back with that price (or a few dollars lower). Whether that’s a good price for the Core2Duo 2.0 Macbook, I don’t know, MLS hadn’t whispered any indications.

In the meantime, there are Boxing Day sales and then there are Boxing Day Sales. Photo fans would see Canada’s Futureshop dropping prices on an outgoing Olympus E-410 kit that does not seem to have similar parallels, Aussie style.

The new mini, bite sized netbooks seemed to attract interest – the price is also bite sized, with some brands offering close to AUD 100 discounts on AUD 600 type machines. Will the the public will establish a long term multi-function use for them or will they eventually become Vivienne Tam clutch items?

While at the bookshops, I see senior couples wandering in to look at those highly illustrated, how-to-use-Windows or Email books. It would be a good time for forum members to add their guides-with-a-slant to the wiki or the forum. Like Amit has done in his Dear Mom letter.

Posted by Anandasim at December 30, 2008 10:48 AM

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