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Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:13:43 GMT
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Important information for all people intending to purchase from Lego S@H.
I made a purchase on October 4th to the value of AU$198. Today I received
a phone call from United Postal Service to inform me my parcel was in
Melbourne, but that I had to pay Customs and GST before it could be delivered.
She was also under the impression that the value of the parcel was $US198.
I told her that I had been informed that GST had been included in the price
and that Customs duty was not imposed on parcels under the value of $AU200.
I now have to fax the receipt proving the cost of the items and they will
present this to the brokers who will then re-evaluate the case re GST and
Customs. I will let you know what happens. Customs were wanting $50 and $40
for the GST, an extra $90 on top of the already outrageous postage cost, but
the parcel did arrive in the 4-8 days as Lego said it would. I think in
future it will be cheaper to pay more for the items I want and get them sent
to my
uncle in Holland who can then forward the parcels on and claim they are a gift.
Frances
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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| This is all very worrying, and does not bode well for S@H in Australia. (...) Interesting. If you believe Custom's own WWW site, even if the price had been US$198, you should have been granted the "low value" concession as the GST should have been (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: Please read, re: S@H orders to Australia
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| (...) Sounds much like the quandry faced by Canadians having to now order from the States. We saw this when LEGO shut down their Canadian operations and began sending catalogs from the U.S. with increased shipping rates. My solution was simpler (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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