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This is my personal whinge about big business and in particular Bunnings.

Garden Sheds Online sell the same brands as Bunnings except for one. About 6 moths ago Bunnings took on anew range of garden sheds that they import from overseas. They are an inferior product that is incredibly hard to put together. From what I can tell the only reason they took on this range is because they could not compete on price with the Australian made garden sheds.

So thats my first gripe, such a large Australian company can’t keep up so they take there money overseas.

The other day I had a call from a lady who I assumed was a customer. I answered her numerous questions and then at the end of the call she told me she was from Bunnings in Labrador, QLD. Before I could ask her why she was calling an online store she hung up.

Two days later she called again with more questions. This time I asked her what was going on before I answered her questions. The lady proceeded to tell me that it was her job to price match garden sheds. A customer had been to the Bunnings store in  Brisbane with a quote from our website asking for a price match. Bunnings could not match the price because there margins are so high and she was ringing me to double check the details as they could not believe we were selling the garden shed so cheaply.

I was gob smacked. This person from a competing company had called so I could help her beat our price. Now don’t get me wrong, I was not abusive or angry in anyway to the above mentioned lady. She was just doing her job. But the arrogance of Bunnings to think I was going to help them to line there pockets.

The story gets worse. Later that day i was talking to the supplier of the garden shed in question and I told him the story.

He then went on to tell me that when Bunnings does a price match that the call there suppliers and make them wear the loss on the product. So basically due to there size and power they squeeze there suppliers to wear the price match. So all of the advertising that they do saying if were not cheaper we will beat it by 10 percent should really be -If were not cheaper our supplier will beat it by ten percent.

Now I know there will be many people that will read this and say so what I just want the cheapest product.

Well if you want the cheapest Garden Shed you better have a look at our website at www.gardenshedsonline.com.au because we are always cheaper than Bunnings.

I am that confident that we are always cheaper that if you can find the same shed from Bunnings that is cheaper than our website I will beat them by twenty percent. The only disclaimer is that the garden shed needs to be Australian made as Garden Sheds Online only supports Australian made products.