As an alternative, can I suggest visiting KMart and buy a Pilates Ring for $8.50. You can each grab one of the padded bits AND you have saved over $50! The rings are designed for significant pushing and pulling so would work to help someone rise out of a seat.
Another option is to buy to two sets of Resistance Training Kit - Grip Handles for $20, and join them with a shackle each from Bunnings. May cost a total of $30. Still half the price of the product you looked at. (I know the grips can take a considerable weight as I use them with my physio.)
If there isn’t a KMart near you in Cairns, perhaps BigW or some other similar store might carry these sort of items in stock.
On 15 March 2016 it was revealed that Kogan.com , the online retailer founded by Ruslan Kogan, had acquired the Dick Smith brand, trademarks, intellectual property, and its online business in Australia and New Zealand for an undisclosed price.
It is worth noting that Dick Smith (the person) didn’t own Dick Smith (the brand) when it went into liquidation and was subsequently sold (brand) to Kogan.
I have reservations about both especially when you are lucky to get what you ordered within the supposed time just in case it doesn’t represent what is advertised.
True. It’s worth noting that Dick Smith hasn’t actually owned the shops of that name for decades. Before Kogan bought the brand I think it was owned by Woolworths.
Woolworths bought 60% in 1980 and the remainder in 1982, they essentially destroyed it by diluting its identity and products in many, many ways, and subsequently onsold it to Anchorage Capital (a corporate raider) in 2012.
Anchorage did what corporate raiders do (buying a distressed business, prettying up the books, and extracting big dollars for themselves), and when there was little left liquidated Dick Smith in 2016.
There were a few in between - Anchorage Capital. 2012 Anchorage Capital bought the company and prepared the company for listing on the stock market. It became a public company in 2013 before folding in 2016…where Kogan bought the naming rights and IP.
