[fishmaster]

[quote=digital-audiophile;278851]Just my two cents.

The price differential does not sit at the level of the retail shop. The change needs to come at the manufacturing level.

If two of the exact same skimmer are manufactured in Germany and one is shipped to a LFS in Canada and one is shipped to a LFS in the United States with the dollar at parity and assuming that both stores have the same overhead and expected profit margin there should be no real difference in the price.

**********One difference I could see is Volume. Don't forget how small our population base is compared to the US. California has more people than Canada!!! I'm sure the "Big Player" vendors in the US could move volumes of product that would make our "Big player" vendors look like a joke in comparison. I run into this all the time in my industry, there are retailers down there who buy way more volume of certain product lines than we as a Distributor can buy. The cost is almost always lower with volume. So now you have US Retailers buying better than Canadian Distributors!!!! This isn't always the case, but it's not uncommon.************