why are people here attacking someone who bought a bat? you may not like it, but trying to convince the person that he's wasted his hard earned cash, and that he's been foolish with his wallet, is very, very mean..
Honestly, I don't think anyone is attacking BIGGIE, rather most people commenting have a problem with the vendor. Look, from all the source information we know various things about all this:-
1) We know that BIGGIE paid A$800 for his 'Assassin' bat, which is a lot of money.
2) We know that delazy paid A$300 for his 'Punisher', which - to me at least - did not look disimilar.
3) We know that these bats are made in Pakistan and imported to Australia - so the cost price for either bat is probably around A$150 plus shipping, tops - and also that Ryan imports bats in significant quantities, so the shipping costs per unit will be relatively small. Let's guess conservatively at A$25.
4) We know that bat labels of this type probably cost around A$15 and that getting his mate to knock the bat in likely costs around A$45.
5) There might be some import duties and VAT - I don't know. Let's assume 15% of the landed cost, so around A£23.
So, the total cost to Hitman is likely around A$258. Feel free to offer different opinions on my calculations but my guess is I'm not far wrong. We've seen photos of both bats, and I think we can agree that neither is a looker, so one is unlikely to have cost double of the other. If I'm anywhere close to being right, I reckon delazy got a pretty fair deal from Hitman, but BIGGIE got cleaned up.
That's the issue for me. I think it's unfair that some buyers get the goldmine, and others get the shaft. As I said earlier, I genuinely hope that both bats go like the clappers.
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