If the distribution is to be in Europe instead charge tax, will have to pay for shipping, I think that would be financially similar price.
As regards your comment on tax - it doesn’t work like that.
The ‘import’ tax you currently pay when a kit arrives in Europe (EU countries at least) from WnW is made up from two taxes (plus in some cases a fee charged by the postal service).
There’s ‘duty’ which is a proper import tax – the percentage charged on an item can vary a lot depending on the product & sometimes where it comes from but on something like a personal purchase of a few WnW kits the amount charged will be generally be very little or none at all.
The second tax (the main one) is VAT which is really a sales tax not an import tax. The rate varies depending on the EU country you live in but it’s generally around 20%.
It doesn’t matter how a WnW kit is sold in the EU – whoever imports it will be charged VAT & possibly some ‘duty’ tax. If they are a distributor then they will pass this on to the final customer.
What you will save on is any fee the postal service charge for handling the collection of VAT but if you import 2 or 3 kits at a time it doesn’t work out at much per kit.
The bulk shipping costs from NZ to a European distributor will be lower (per kit) but potentially wiping out that advantage would be the cost of shipping from the distributor to the purchaser.
This is ignoring the profit margin the distributor would have to have - perhaps that can be absorbed by WnW?
If WnW can take care of their distributors profit margin then I’d expect the price of a WnW kit as delivered to your door to be a little bit higher than now.
Regards
Russell
