ordering bits OS

matchan · Post by **matchan** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:30 pm

Hi Folks, for those of you who regularly order parts from the US or UK, is there an amount which attracts customs attention and potentially GST or duty ?

Do you keep your orders below a certain value, or is this no longer necessary?

Cheers
Matt

Blurr · Post by **Blurr** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:36 pm

Keep it below 1000, and triple check that they are splitting it if you request it.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:10 am

Yep like Russ said. Once you go over $1000 (including freight) you get arse raped. Chris's engine was $1400 inc freight and the customs charges/gst etc were $750.

zxsixr03 · Post by **zxsixr03** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:06 pm

Get your freight costs itemized then you can spend $1k on parts alone.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:40 pm

zxsixr03 wrote:Get your freight costs itemized then you can spend $1k on parts alone.

Thats what we did. I argued it with the forwarder and the customs monkeys but they said it's $1000 including freight. In our case the engine was $980 AUD plus a seperate freight invoice for $450.

tim · Post by **tim** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:37 pm

My exhaust cost AU$1100 shipped via US Mail International but the seller put the value as around AU$300 on the customs declaration so no problem.

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:13 pm

If you can get the seller to under-value the stuff coming in, that is one way of avoiding the bullshit customs duty. Limit is $1k incl. freight - which is total crap itself, because stuff *has* to be freighted, and this cost is not an inherent value of the item being freighted !! which is the whole point of customs *duty* in the first fucking place !!!

I got smashed with the conversion kit for the Jag, even though old mate split the shipment into 2 parts, so each was valued under $1k - on the second invoice, he put the *total* of the order, which meant that a $700 shipment was going to cost me almost $500 in duty !!!!!

I ended up getting a customs broker at Botany to sort it out, and he got the total down to about half that.........NFI how, but he did.

So be careful with anything up around the $1k mark.

If Gerry Harvey had his way, we would be paying customs duty on *everything* purchased from overseas, valued at $1 or more !!!! what a fucknuckle, he sells computers to everyone, and then whinges that people use those same computers to buy shit off ebay !!! you fucking moron !!!!!

matchan · Post by **matchan** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:02 pm

Thanks for the info folks, parts ordered in two batches in the end, each less thank 1K.

I hear ya about hardleys Gos, he is now on my list, I know he doesn't care if he gets my money or not but makes me feel better to shop elsewhere!

Cheers
Matt

zxsixr03 · Post by **zxsixr03** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:26 pm

Glen wrote:
zxsixr03 wrote:Get your freight costs itemized then you can spend $1k on parts alone.

Thats what we did. I argued it with the forwarder and the customs monkeys but they said it's $1000 including freight. In our case the engine was $980 AUD plus a seperate freight invoice for $450.

I must have been lucky my front rotors were just on $990AUD shipping was $80 or something i got the held in customs letter rang them emailed them the invoice for the parts alone, a few days later they wee on my door...

matchan · Post by **matchan** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:01 am

zxsixr03 wrote: ...emailed them the invoice for the parts alone, a few days later they wee on my door...

Bastards!

matchan · Post by **matchan** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:01 pm

Just got a note about a promotion in the US, 2011 zx6r USD9999 witht he current exchange rate........

wonder what shipping would be?

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