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@nogod4me wrote:

 

As for buying local, I notice that many sellers have taken advantage of the GST on foreign products, and have raised their prices roughly by the GST, to take advantage of gaining more profit.
To those people who do this, I will not buy your crud, and you have encouraged me to use shops, or go without.

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I guess it never occurred to you that those sellers might have been keeping their prices artificially low in order to remain competitive with sellers from overseas, and that the GST on imports did for them exactly what it was supposed to (relieve some of the pressure).

It seems it also didn't occur to you that many sellers import the goods they sell, and that with the previous $1000 threshold, it was entirely possible their stock purchases were previously GST-free, but now they are not, so the cost of their stock rose by 10%, which in turn necessitated an increase to their retail prices. 

It sounds like you wouldn't have bought from them anyway, if you refer to their stock as 'crud', so my guess is they haven't missed out on anything.