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Re: Lego DACTA in Australia
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.dacta
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Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:55:26 GMT
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> In article <FzunE3.B98@lugnet.com>,
> Benjamin Whytcross <b_whytcross@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes and no...Yes I can help...No, unless you're a school/educator, you can't
> > get Dacta in Australia. Your best bet is to order it from the US where TLG • are
> > a lot more consumer friendly with these products.
Like most of us, I was long under the impression that DACTA wouldn't sell to
us ordinary folk in Aus. However, I contacted Educational Experience
www.edex.com.au (Sydney) on their hotline email address in July this year
asking if I could purchase from their DACTA range, clearly stating that I
wasn't a teacher and it was for personal home use. I was told that I could
definitely purchase but I would have to state when ordering that I needed to
pay the sales tax/GST. (More on the sales tax bit below). I did not, however,
end up placing an order (yet), but if anyone one tries to order and has
problems I will gladly forward the details of my correspondence with them.
Educational Experience have 2 branches, the other is Toys and More
(www.toysandmore.com.au) which is their fundraising/sales to the public arm
which sells standard retail Lego, not DACTA, you can order from this part
online. The schools resource side - including DACTA - (just plain old
Educational Experience) has an online catalog but you cannot order online,
there is however a 1800 phone number to order.
I tried long and hard to contact Moore Educational (Melbourne) last year and
they never reply to their email and don't seem to like answering their
phone, so even if they would sell DACTA to me, I wouldn't buy from them.
I have, however, made several purchases from Educational Experience, just not
DACTA (or even Lego) and I find them very efficient and easy to deal with.
Now for the sales tax bit and the GST: I'm not sure if this is a national
change or just Tasmania but now the tax exemption is handled differently,
everyone pays the 10% GST and exempt entities then claim back the GST paid in
a rebate, it is no longer removed by the retailer at time of purchase as used
to be the case.
Hope this helps,
Deidre
drb@tasmail.com
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| (...) Is this a recent change in policy from LA ? About 5 or 6 years ago, I wrote to the Lego DACTA address (which was printed on the back of the regular catalogue) asking for some DACTA catalogues to be sent to me. I seem to remember getting a call (...) (24 years ago, 27-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.dacta)
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