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Evans Cycles, Manchester (CC BY 2.0 Smabs Sputzer:Flickr)Live blog: Evans Cycles owner Mike Ashley calls for 20 per cent tax on online sales to save the High Street, Deloitte RAB entries open, e Yorkshire fly thru + more
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I haven't bought a bike or bike accessory except emergency repair stuff for years. They all stock goods with a massive markup that I don't need. Chain reaction and planet X have supplied what I want at a third of the cost of a brick and mortar operation, why would I want to shell out on a markup?
So Evans wants government help to stay competitive? Why should high street shops have special treatment. How about a 20% tax credit for online shops - they are better after all. As Canyon48 rightly says - you don't get a sale if you havn't got the product stocked in the store. The most basic logic of retailing. And if people prefer to shop on-line? Move your business to where the customers are. That is the second logic of retailing!
Don't you need customers to have money too?
Not sure which logic that is, I hadn't realised that logic was countable either. Full of learning this thread is.
Canyon might not be the best example either as they struggle to get another important factor whch is availablity. No good having a good price if people can't get hold of the goods. Good job people are stupid, eh?
20% on shopping, plus 2.5% tax on income just for being alive and over 40. Because 40 year olds are 'old' and rich of course. When is the next referendum; they all need lining up against a wall....
I lived In seattle in 2010 and most of the bike shops had innertube recycling back then. A local company made bags and things out of them. I still have a messenger bag with a seatbelt for a strap. Great idea but it had stained quite a few cycling tops
Failing business model in desperate calls for government meddling.
I bet Ashley's got some great avoidance schemes for what comes into his own pocket.
Also, good luck with this 20% thing seeing as most of the 'big' companies seem to be avoiding paying their fair shair in the first place.
20% tax on online sales, that seems REALLY steep.
I'd happily buy all my cycling gear from a local bike shop, but that would require my LBS to actually stock the brands I want to buy (they don't) and actually have the item I want, in the size I want, in stock (which is a rarity).
It's particularly difficult when I have to drive for 30 minutes just to get to a bike shop...