The 121GW isn't out of stock: https://www.welectron.com/EEVBlog-121GW-Data-Logging-Multimeter-with-Bluetooth
Well I guess it depends on where you go, I checked here, the most logical place first I would have thought https://www.eevblog.com/product/121gw/
Some mark up! 40 quid! That's near quarter of the price of the meter again, Greedy cunts!!
Not sure if you were serious or not... But 300 AUD (excluding GST i.e. taxes) is about equal to 191.80EUR (excluding VAT i.e. taxes).. welectron sells at 200.84€ (excluding taxes).. I'd think about 9 euros can be considered decent enough markup.
Or were you referring to the government (which gets the VAT of about 40 euros) with that "Greedy cunts"? Or the population and companies of the country who gets (share of) the benefits from that tax, eventually?
Nope, I was deadly serious!
300 aud = 171 quid! 238 euros = 210 quid! 40 quids difference = greedy cunts! I used online calculators so I take it they are close enough?
Your online conversion calculations are correct, but you calculated them from values that are not comparable to each other.
I thought I already hinted that in my previous message, but, lets put it more clearly. It seems you are comparing australian
WITHOUT-tax price to european
WITH-tax price. You can't do that unless you intend to break law (and/or expect the european merchant to break law). If you order that 300aud australian thing (from australia), you end up (or at least should, if obeying laws) paying that missing tax (VAT in EU) some time during or after the import process, so that 300 AUD (without tax) price is not valid comparison point to 238 EUR (includes 19% VAT for the merchant's country). You must compare either the 300AUD to 200.84EUR (both values without tax), or, 300AUD + your local VAT (seems to be 20%, so total 360AUD) to the 239 EUR (includes 19%). The latter comparison would give 360AUD=205.74GBP vs. 239EUR=213.72GBP.
That was only about comparing prices; in EU as a consumer you should end up paying some VAT to some government at some point of purchase/import, no matter what, so you might as well compare the with-tax prices to give you a better idea of the total price you'd need to pay in the end.
If importing by yourself, remember shipping costs and that you pay VAT for those shipping costs, too. (If shipping is marked as "free", customs typically roll a dice for some credible shipping cost to calculate the VAT for.) And possible customs, typically somewhere between 0% and 4%. And if it gets shipped with one of those (really greedy) shipping companies that want like 20-40€ fees for the near-zero customs paperwork they do for you (or even if they do not do it for you), add that to the total. Welectron seems to provide free shipping to great britain and since it is already in EU, no customs for you (welectron has paid the customs already, and baked them into that selling price shown), and the (really greedy) shipping companies can't extort any extra fees from you. So, assuming 0% customs, luckily no extra fees to shipping company, and "rolling" a 10AUD shipping cost (cheap, I'd say) it would actually be closer to, 370AUD vs. 239EUR, i.e. 211.45GBP vs. 213.72GBP. All those considered (cheap shipping, no extra fees, no customs included), Welectron starts to look possibly the cheaper source...
(Oh, if the brexit hits hard enough, you'd be "importing" even from welectron. Customs, extra fees, etc even for orders from there...)
Note, about 37€ of that welectron price (the VAT share of the full price) goes to government, not to welectron. So, at least welectron is not greedy. If you want to enjoy the benefits from your government (like education, healthcare, security/safety, etc. however crappy or good they might be), but not pay taxes, then you're the greedy ... something.