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    Quote Originally Posted by mattims View Post
    I gave up last time I was importing stuff and used a shipping agent to organise the whole thing. The agent charged me $150 I think to do it, but I only had to pay for Customs and GST (although I did pickup direct from the warf as I happened to have an MSIC card and a truck at the time, so you would usually have at least one more delivery fee to get to somewhere you can pick it up from).

    And they got all the paperwork done in advance so it was a much quicker process than I had managed to do myself previously.
    I had an MSIC at the time, but I would have needed an ASIC, as it came by air.
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    Quote Originally Posted by loanrangie View Post
    Those charges are all normal for shipping thru a forwarder, UK has some of the highest charges.
    But Nick, the charges were all levied locally. The box was <$1600 landed. All the charges came from local leeches. Ok, I didn't expect there to be none, and GST was obvious, but seriously?
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    Quote Originally Posted by johntins View Post
    But Nick, the charges were all levied locally. The box was <$1600 landed. All the charges came from local leeches. Ok, I didn't expect there to be none, and GST was obvious, but seriously?
    Yep it's normal, I see it everyday.
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    Can you buy the parts you need to convert and rebuild your existing one and get them to send it in smaller packages?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares View Post
    Can you buy the parts you need to convert and rebuild your existing one and get them to send it in smaller packages?
    They do a kit, Mario, but then I'd have to pay someone to put it together. My days of doing that sort of stuff are definitely over, and autos were never my thing anyway, so I have insufficient experience to tackle a ZF.
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    DHL has a reputation for adding charges that cannot be applied and when challenged they are withdrawn - there are lots of threads about this. Any genuine Aust Government charges clearly have to be paid but anything levied by DHL are not - afterall that is what the shipping charges are and cover all the shippers costs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by loanrangie View Post
    Yep it's normal, I see it everyday.
    Maybe I should get YOU to import it.......
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    Having never imported anything over the old magic $1000 my experience is limited, however, the last few shipments I have gotten from the UK (DLS) came via TNT, whos shipping costs were siginificantly cheaper than their previous freight company.

    I wonder, does anyone do entire container freight from the UK to here, like they do with parts from Japan and USA. Obviously you would have to wait longer to get your goods (as they would have to wait till the container is filled and then sea freight) but the importing and freighting costs may be less???

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