Despite hitting parity, and even being stronger than the US dollar in the last week, Australian's are slugged with $200, $300 and $400 dollar price increases. Wondering why this would be the case... It's happened for just so long now.
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Australians miss out again on new MBP pricing
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you need to make a friend in USA. It is really not logical. Also there are good usa ebay sellers that will ship to AUS. WHEN I was selling a lot of mac minis on ebay I shipped 2 to Aus for the very reason you are talking about.
It's GST. If you were to order it from the US you'd be charged for the GST anyway (as the item is over $1000), plus shipping would be crazy and warranty might not be valid. The price is fair.
We Aussies generally pay more for everything 
Will still be picking up a high end 15". Quad cores and ATI, I'm a happy man.
Will still be picking up a high end 15". Quad cores and ATI, I'm a happy man.
the warranty is worldwide transferrable.
taxes are another story the 2 minis I sold were around 800 each.
Some of the basic pricing info is found in the product description pages e.g.
in the US: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
in Australia: http://www.apple.com/au/macbookpro/
hellomoto appears to be ignoring import duties and that the US prices are pre-tax (as taxes in the US vary from state to state).
in the US: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
in Australia: http://www.apple.com/au/macbookpro/
hellomoto appears to be ignoring import duties and that the US prices are pre-tax (as taxes in the US vary from state to state).