Australian members

[NuConcepts]

Im going out on a limb and didn't know what section to post it in, im looking for a member living in australia willing to pick up saws in customs sent from the us. This would include you also resending the saws to there new location. your compensation would be between 50-100 usd a saw. PM me if interested.

 

[tdi-rick]

Umm, if you sent them USPS they go straight through (via Australia Post) to the addressee, as they do if using UPS, Fedex, TNT, etc.

If over A$1000, Customs let the addressee know that a processing fee and GST (VAT) is due, then forward them after payment.

 

[MCW]

Yeah send direct mate. Like Rick said it's only when you crack the magic AUD$1000 excluding freight that it all goes pear shaped. Just write the value down a bit lower on the package. As long as the saws are going to a different buyer (unless the deliveries are spread out a bit) you'll be fine. I've had 3 saws land in 2 days addressed to me with no issues but did have a 390XPG get accidentally written down as USD$1000. That cost me about USD$270 to get released from Customs

 

[Stihlman441]

Does it make any differance if its a new saw or used saw ? on the paper work.

 

[MCW]

Does it make any differance if its a new saw or used saw ? on the paper work.

No mate but if it is a new, let's say 880, you may want to get the sender to pull it apart a bit. If Customs decide to pull down the package and see a spanking new 880 sitting there, yet a declared value of USD$900 written on the parcel, they can revalue the contents of the parcel and you can bet your left nut they'll value it at the Australian price of around $2500.

Providing they know what they're looking at

If it's got some oil and woodchips on it all the better

Put it this way, you are highly unlikely to get stung but it's best to do everything you can to not tick any of Australian Custom's boxes. Once they get their grubby mitts into it, as I found out, it's a nightmare.

 

[Stihlman441]

Ha Matt you are starting to worry me a bit.:msp_w00t:

Did you pull that let's say 880 thing out of nowhere or how did you know i was looking at one from over there ?.
Thanks anyway all taken on board.

 

[MCW]

Ha Matt you are starting to worry me a bit.:msp_w00t:

Did you pull that let's say 880 thing out of nowhere or how did you know i was looking at one from over there ?.
Thanks anyway all taken on board.

Nah just pulled it out of mid-air mate

Like I said, don't be scared of importing saws, just ensure that you don't get too many packages in quick succession, have the declared value too high (always play it safe and never have a declared value over USD$900 - unless the exchange ratio drops a lot, then you'll have to go lower), or have a massive, heavy, expensive looking parcel with a declared value of 50 bucks

 

[Terry Syd]

Yeah, Australian Customs is a complete joke. I had a case where a fellow imported a bunch of stuff, including a rubber letter opener that was called a 'CIA Letter Opener'. The Customs confiscated it. The bloke went nuts and we went all the way to the District Court for this little piece of crap - the client was running on principles, not money.

The Judge laughed at the whole matter and granted my request for a release. The fricken Customs Officer actually left the court room with the letter opener in contravention of the Judge's order. We had to get the bastard back in Court to hand it to the Sheriff's Officer. Fork me, what a bunch of idiots.

Another time I had a electrical tennis racket, that was used to nuke bugs, confiscated when I entered the country. It was deemed to be a 'prohibited weapon'. Later on, I purchased another bug racket (same design) from a disposal store in Port Macquarie. I'm still using my 'prohibited weapon' to zap mosquitoes and flies.

I tend to treat the Customs Officers like retarded children. Smile and agree with everything they say, then get on with your real life.

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Any reference to retarded children, included in the same sentence with Australian Customs Officers, was not meant as a demeaning remark to such children during the composition of this post.

 

[MCW]

I agree Terry. I had a pack of 5 DVD's confiscated when they were posted to me from the US as they were in "poor taste" (And no they weren't po#n!).
Even though they were for sale everywhere here. Hmmm, work that out.
I think that most of the Custom's guys just have to stand up and beat their chest occasionally to let you know they have some power, even if it's just a wee little bit. Then they go home and get a black eye from their wife because they didn't do the ironing or dishes.
That's why they are such pricks at work...

 

[Terry Syd]

They are part of a bigger organisation called the 'Australian Government' - that includes a lot of shady people.

I had a mate that was installing very good quality security systems in Austalian prisons. The competitors to his work were former 'officers'. They approached him for a kick-back and he refused, so they went after him in the Courts. They used Australian Customs and the only thing they could get a point on him was the tie-wraps used on the razor wire. They made up a big case and dragged him through the courts.

I read the first judge's decision (it hurt to read the contorted logic) and told him to pay the fine. He decided to take it through the system. I told him everything I knew about the system and how it was like a corrupt casino where he was just a mark playing in a game with moving rules.

It eventually destroyed him and his business.

You have to know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to walk away and when to run.