Shipping to AU

[jcw148]

Hello -

I recently moved from the US to AU. When the new MacBook Airs are released I wanted to buy on online and have someone still living in the US ship one to me in AU. When I mentioned this to someone here in AU they said I would have to pay a fee and/or import tax.

Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, how I can get around it?

I'm pretty outraged at the prices for Apple hardware in AU in general, but since the AU dollar is so much stronger than the US dollar right now, we would be getting hit twice.

Anyone have a good solution to this?

Cheers,
J

 

[And1ss]

1.06 dollars to 1 Australian dollar? That's not twice..?

It's best to check with AU customs to get the full load down.

 

[jcw148]

"twice" being 1. AU having higher prices already and 2. AU $ being stronger than US $ right now...meaning the already higher AU prices are even higher when compared to US prices.

 

[deadlystriker]

You will have to pay customs for items valued over 1000AUD.

No way to get around it

Unless you have a relative visiting and can try to sneak it in, but the box will have to go to the bin.

 

[grapii]

Yep you have to pay import tax. We're moving from UK to AU in the next few months, and anything worth over 1000AUD and less than 12 months old will be subject to this tax.

Only way around it if someone brings it in for you via luggage, but they'll need to take it out of the box and take all the film off so it looks like it's there's and they've used it.

 

[shinerock]

Then we can buy that in the same place where we are now.........na....?