Salt Water Chlorinators - The Truth About The Prices

[Chaichara]

This question was asked recently on another forum and with the price I paid for mine, I think I got an exceptionally good deaI and it looks as if I saved anything up to 50,000 baht on the one for my small pool, and that's a lot of money to me.The savings on a bigger one would probably much greater:

Does anyone know what the duty + taxes are on pool equipment imported into Thailand? I priced out a chlorinator here in Phuket a few days ago for 98,000 baht and the same unit can be bought online in Australia for 22,000 baht. I'm curious to know how much of the price difference is due to taxes and duties and how much is due to margin.

Does this answer some of your questions?

RRP Australia 22,000

CIF 3,000

duty 1,540

'luxury' tax 1,000

importer margin + 30%

we're up to 35,802

distributor + 30%

we're up to 46,542

Phuket retailer + 50%

we're up to 69,813

+7%VAT = 73,303 probable Phuket price

seen on sale in Pattaya at 58,500[/size]

on sale direct from importer (csah & carry) at 46,545.00 inc. VAT

probable consultant price 53,400 inc. VAT

Models for a standard sized domestic pools star at around 34,500.(cash & carry).

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