The good news is that there are going to be many light bulbs flashing over people's head because of your post here. For others, like myself, didn't even think about buying an aircraft overseas and have it shipped here cheaper then actually purchasing one here.
Bill,
G'day,
Its not just "Aircraft" as such o'le mate.....The Key here is to wait till our $$ takes another dive -
(only a year or so ago it was at $63c US) - that would be the time to take advantage of the exchange rate and go shopping. Whilst we are still below the US right now (I think around 91-92c), at times we get really
well below as you can see,
I did that whole "exchange rate monitoring" thing a little while back when I bought my GPS. Then, the Aus dollar dropped considerable overnight, and before the changes to the local distributers sale prices were advertised, I snapped up a Garmin 495 GPS. Now, whilst I got the GPS for an Un-usually(by most counts down here) good sale price anyway
(before it went up again that is) and effectivly made not real change to me in Aussie $$ as such, Had I lived in the US and noticed this change, I could have saved heaps on the US locally bought Price.
To give you an exampleAt the time, GPS was $1795 AUS, in the US they were $1595 at the same time. The Aussie Dollar then dropped from around 88c to 65c just about overnight, which made the ticket price of $1795 Aus GPS worth $1166 US - thats
$432 cheaper than what you could have bought it for in the US....Get my point!!.
Had you guys been watching for that sort of thing, you could have cleaned up on a number of items - GPS, Radio's and so on
It pays to keep an eye on these sort of thing from our end, as I watch it because it is important that I only buy when our Dollar comes back up near yours,(I have to plan ahead for parts, and sometimes stock pile etc) otherwise I'd pay a forture for everything
- and as you can see, it might pay for your guys to keep an eye on it too...
Cheers
