Count me it.
I'm Julian from Adelaide.
I guess the ultimate test is what buy price Harvey (Norman) gets his stuff for and how much his electricity bill is!!
We could trade with the lights off but would we get a seriously good buy price?? ($ agreements between retailers/suppliers would be sensitive and water tight) However the only way to know is if we do the exercise.
Another option may be if the manufacturers/suppliers won't talk to us then maybe the retailers will (they work off volume bonuses aswell). My Cousins best mate runs a Good Guys store locally. I wonder what his reaction would be is we ordered X thousand PS3's from him, for instance. From Adelaide Suburbia he was never going to sell to the Perth market anyway!!
Product has to be cost effective to ship and suit a huge target market....yes..... im talking about Nintendo DS / PSP's / 360 / PS3.
IMHO we should stay away from clothes and anything where peoples taste and size comes into it (limited market). Lets give the kids, or should I say parents, what they want......cheap gaming consoles.
Interested in TEAM AUSSIES collective thoughts. Financiers welcome to pledge $ by PM.