Those trailer locks are very heavy and expensive. 
We have one on our boat trailer, but need on on our campervan too.... 

While gumtree is ok, i find it awful to browse, search, upload, and after about 10mins of being on there, i get frutrated with it and close it down!
Im always getting something about *long-running-script* messages... ergghhhh.....


You should have sold it to the guy who bought your trailer

Yes my point of this post not so much as how i going to sell the tralier lock, but as you pointed out they are a heavy item, and was wondering how these aussie sellwrs are able to sell them below $20 with free postage, surely postage alone for a heavy bulky item is not cheap, i mean it is not a T-shirt or a lightweight article to post Australia wide.

As to selling it to the buyer of the trailer, well they are on a rural property in SA, were you can apperently leave your vehicle unlocked keys in ignition and will still be there the next week.

Going by the large quantity, I would guess that they've bought these wholesale from an overseas location (probably China) so the cost would probably be below $10.

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Ok Digi, may have one or two of those boxes kicking around saves a $1.80, dont have any ink in the printer, cheaper to get office works to pint the label for bugger all, but as is used would still have to sell for one third of my new price to get listing noticed against all the big time sellers, who i do not think are selling as loss leaders, i gather they buy in bulk, and as you said as they sell thousands of items get great rates on postage.

 

So in hindsite would have been way cheaper to buy on Ebay than from Superexpensive autos, but at the time was  was needed there and then as i had to park a very desirable $4000 tradie trailer out the front of my property (which did not belong to me) facing the road and would have been easy to back up a vehicle and tow it away with out us knowing, so at the time spending $44.00 was better than losing a 4 grand trailer,

 

Any how will just put it up on Bumtree for half price with pickup, if it dont sell makes a great paperweight LOL

 

 

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There's your selling point mate...... and surprisingly...... it's the same reason you paid through the nose for your lock it was needed there and then, Some people, like you, or for whatever reason, have not got the time to wait for the lock to turn up from Australia's well known adopted chinese state "Incowectrocation."

Advertise it for better than half price ($33.00 or best offer) on the local BSS sites on FB I'm sure if you have the

patience somebody will come along who ....wait for it..... is local and "needs it there and then".

For mine facebook local buy swap and sell sites turns those types of things over quickly and profitably

I hope you reported it to the authorities.   There are too many of these cheap Chinese items causing fires and even death in some cases.