Thread: Handbrake conversion to disc : Defender

Originally Posted by leeds

I have no idea what Australian import duty rates are, but would suggest someone (dullbird?) looks into carefully

Currently you are looking at $292 + postage at about £115-$130 talking about final price of $420-425 in Australia then on top of that any internal freight costs.

You are talking very low numbers here i.e. 2-4 units.

A 20 ft container costs about $5000 from UK to Sydney, I have no idea how many units you would get in a 20 ft container but the individual freight costs would drop to less then $10 each. That might be a rather grandiose idea so why not go for something in between? Say a small pallet load? 10+ units say


Freight costs per item would be say in region of $20-40

Import duty ????? Don't ask me

Cost of units would drop below $292 each.

Downside someone needs to do more groundwork re duty/freightage costs/import duties. Longer lead time due to shipping times, need more confirmed interest. Also someone/s is going to have to put money up front.

Upside, cheaper unit costs to indiviuals, possible $$$ profit for someone/s

If it does not work out I will simply say

Just a suggestion, nothing more

Regards

Brendan

thanks for the info brendan but please try not to confuse matters with things that simply aren't going to happen....

I also love how everyone keeps working out what I have already told them. The cost you have worked out brendan are already in a post further up


And dave as for your post mate $250 landed thats less than the actualy unit with out the postage so I'm glad you have been reading the posts that I put the effort in to type...........

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

I suck at conversion rate stuff....

whats the real AUS cost on this...

if you import more than one for onforwarding (seperate orders for delivery to seperate people but delivered to a single person for distribution) you can work around the customs thing...

hunt around for the setup I was going to try out for getting detroit diffs for those going to cooma. (it was canned due to there being no difference in individual shipping costs or bulk shipping)

Here Dave..easy peasy

XE - Universal Currency Converter

I'm keen!

Thank you for your efforts so far DB.

I would like to lodge myself "interested" pending final price.

Lou,

Interested in one for Jil - 200tdi Defender.

I'd suggest some of the TT guys may also be interested, so I'll ask.

Qty vs savings will be a finite number I'd suggest.

Also, is is worth considdering doing a deal with a LR parts importer for a limited run and save some hassles? Just a thought!

Regards,
Greg

Lou

I'll take one for a Discovery 2 thanks if you can get the price!

Originally Posted by dullbird

So far postage cost we are look at approx

around

• $149 for one unit
• $256.94 two units this works out at $128.47 I think per unit
  
• $463.44 four units this works out at $115.86 per unit but we have the problem of import tax to tackle.

I'm also waiting for a quote back from DHL in the hope that they can do it cheaper per unit.....

$292ish and add 128.47 is around $420/25.......sounds alot of money but when you look at individual cost. It is around $526/30

having 4 units posted takes us over the $1000 limit mark buy about $175

i forgot to mention that he does do disco and rangerover conversions too.

I have emailed again asking him to clarify a few things once he does this I should be able to give a more firm price (well provding the $ stays where it is)
and hopefully DHL will come back with a better price also.

soooo

(1000+175)/4
=
~293
+
115 or DHL..
=
408 unless DHL is cheaper

Originally Posted by dullbird

And dave as for your post mate $250 landed thats less than the actualy unit with out the postage so I'm glad you have been reading the posts that I put the effort in to type...........

and byte me for a typo $350 should have been the number....

$ when all said and done >$350 means I cant afford it. so dont count my order
$ when all said and done <$350 I can afford it so count my order.

and as mentioned you can get around the import tax if multiple people purchase seperately but consign all items to one place for further distribution... OR if there is a bulk distribuition order coming from one freight warehouse (in the UK) to another freight warehouse (AUS) the big box turns up, gets seperated and the individual parcels go out from there....

someone, somewhere, at some time already did all this research, I think they were planning on bringing some diffs in from the USA....

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Thank you for your efforts so far DB.

I would like to lodge myself "interested" pending final price.

What he said!