Cheapest Plastic PET Bottles

[Kieran Broadfield]

What's the cheapest way to get brown PET bottles for homebrew?

Countdown sell ginger beer which is like 90cents, then you can reuse the 1.25L bottle, which is very handy, and works out cheaper than buying the bottles even if you tip the ginger beer away which is stupid!!

But, I am in need of some 330 or 500ml brown PET bottles

[Barry]

Yeah why are they so expensive in those brew shop dozen boxes?

750ml ones are about $1.20 each, empty. That's crazy when you can get them filled with sugar water, labelled/branded, delivered, and refrigerated, at retail premises, for less.

Surely these things only costs cents to make. Even if you charged $0.50 each that's got to be 500% markup on raw cost.

[Ralph]

Same old story in little ole NZ. At the end of a long supply chain where everyone adds 100% markup each time means we get royally reamed on prices.

[Kieran Broadfield]

It's not just New Zealand, I moved here six months ago from England, I wouldn't be able to find cheap bottles back there haha. If anything, it's cheaper to live, even in Auckland. I come from a small rural area of the UK, Cornwall. And it's cheaper here in New Zealand over all. All the major things, such as: car insurance, water, electricity, is all cheaper. 

[Peter Smith]

thats why www.aliexpress.com   etc is doing so well......   and no GST.

[Kieran Broadfield]

sure is, it's a much bigger problem in the UK, so many people order from outside the country, thus a lot of money going out of the economy

[Ralph]

yeh but royal mail etc are shutting that down. Anything going into UK these days tends to get pinged for VAT and processing fees... which may happen here yet.

[Kieran Broadfield]

I'm guilty when it comes to buying from China when I lived in the UK, never got charged tax once. The companies do things, such as charge £0.01 for the item, then £80 for delivery, or, just lie about the value. Here in New Zealand, nothing has been a problem because they don't put import tax on anything below $60 unless it's tobacco or alcohol.

[Ralph]

VAT and GST are usually charged on the cost of the item + the cost of shipping... 

I buy plenty of stuff from overseas too. The internet = global economy.

[Peter Smith]

The local distributor is being cut out of the supply chain because s/he doesn't add "enough" value.   The businesses that survive will focus on value creation, customisation and very quick turnaround... rather then box shifting,    traditionally kiwis are good at these things!

[Kieran Broadfield]

kiwi's are doing better than the English,

everyone in england, thinks they're very intelligent and don't have to worry, but are very lazy when it comes to putting it in practice.

I'm english, so I'm allowed to sla* them off :P

[Kieran Broadfield]

not in the UK, when living there I ordered a lot of willow clefts from India to make Cricket bats as part of a challenge, the orders ranged form 100USD to 700USD, I never got charged a penny tax when they came in to the UK.

[Kieran Broadfield]

they seem pretty slack on it. I think this year they're trying to add more taxes on goods coming in from outside the EU, but up until now, they've been extremely useless at it. 

PS. David Cameron (UK PM) is a bellend