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Old 03-02-2004, 09:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Hi I'm from New Zealand & Sunless Tanning has only been around for about 1 year (maybe abit more?!) Only last month, the first Sunless Tanning Booth arrived on our shores in our busiest city, Auckland. I live in Mount Maunganui which is a beach resort with a combined population with Tauranga of 100000 which swells beyond belief during the summer holidays. I am really determined to get a booth here. My problem here is that the financial institutions dont know a thing about the product & are slamming their doors saying its too risky! The distributorship here is selling the booth with enough material & solution to do 240 tans for NZD $79900 plus GST (which is another 12.5%) One prospective lender has said if I can get from the overseas operators a verification of how well they are doing ie a set of financial accounts (names deleted was fine!) then that would help my cause. Is there anyone out there who would be prepared to help me out? (Where I would like to setup is either in a mall or next door to it with a 5.5-6 million footfall per annum.)

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Old 03-04-2004, 09:17 AM   #2 (permalink)
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First, I love New Zealand....what a beautiful country.

As of today, the conversion to US dollars vs. NZ dollars is 1NZD = 0.668398 USD


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That is outrageous for a Majic which sells for 30K in the states. I know shipping to NZ is high....and the duties are high........but not THAT high. Maybe you should get another quote....or another provider.

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Hi Thanks for that.
The unfortunate thing is that Magic Tan has one sole distributor here, who has all rights & they were purchased off the Australian Distributor, so to go with Magic Tan, that is the price....like it or lump it!
Mystic Tan has supposedly got a distributor here to & they have paid double the price compared to M.Tan.
Have looked at Coco-Bay who have advised me to get in touch with Ergoline Australia, which seems to have dumped Coco-bay and gone with Mystic Tan. Have received info from Heartland about the Sun Spritz (which they dont have a distributor in Aust) but concerned about the patent issues re: Tom Laughlin.
All abit daunting being so far away & the booths being such an unknown thing down here.
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Outrageous for New Zealand. It would cost me $62000 Cdn get a Mystic here, not including shipping and duties. Not an amount I want to gamble with.............
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Neon,

Actually we were discussing the Magic Tan machine. Have you priced it? The list in the USA is $29,999.

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According to the package I have, the Mystic is selling in the USA for $29995 which should about 40,000 Canadian. Considering NAFTA, I don't understand why it would be any higher with the exception of some extra shipping.

Neon.....I don't blame you, I would not pay $46,000 US for any of them........

Nothing personal, just business.....and there is not Mysticism or Magic about it!

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