they have amazon in NZ?  :o  I really thought that someone had told me it doesn't work/exist there

some things like books they'll ship here. almost everything else they don't ship outside the US, or whatever country's amazon site your looking at (like amazon-uk).

i'm equipping my kitchen and just spent some big $$$ at amazon-us. most of the stuff is currently in my friends living room, in NJ. in the next day or two it should be on the way here. the sad thing is that for the same prices i'd pay to get decent stuff here, i can get great stuff double-shipped. but it doesn't work out for orders that are too small, or items that are too big.

I suppose it depends how much you spend but I don't order books from Amazon because the postage from US to Spain can be more than the book. I'm surprised you can afford the shipping to NZ, unless you wait and place a big order. And even so.

recently i ordered three books. two of them where cheaper to buy from amazon (US) and ship here (with somewhat expedited shipping). the 3rd i ordered from a NZ website because it was slightly cheaper. the 3rd book arrived almost two weeks later than the first two and, i forget now, but it shipped from either the US or the UK.

NZ is an island country at the bottom of the world, with a population smaller than L.A., and the price of "things" here tends to reflect shipping costs and inefficient (non-competitive) supply chains.

shortly after moving here i got a blend-tec. for simplicity, let's say we can take the exchange rate at the time as 2:1. so, my $400(US, retail) blend-tec, should cost about $800(NZ) plus GST totaling about $900. why is the sticker price of a new blend-tec here $2300(NZ)?? because it's a smaller market, only one importer, and only one distributor.

btw; i asked a friend who used to work in restaurants about oil (and various sauces). he said old wine bottles with pour-spouts are often used in the kitchens, and squeeze bottles are often used for plating & presentation.