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DarkSammy · 11.05.2015, 06:32 PM

Australia is looking to possibly change our tax scheme when importing goods. At the moment we pay no tax if the value is less than $1000, but this has hurt our local retailers as online shopping has boomed over the past decade...

The trouble for our Hobby Stores in particular is that consumers can pay retail+shipping from overseas, and pay less than what our hobby shops are paying at wholesale from the product distributors. How is that even possible?

I was looking for an ESC for a crawler about 12 months ago. I am not a rich man, but look to support local when I can. ESC would cost me about $60 USD ($80 AUD) including shipping to my door. I chatted to a LHS, and the cost to purchase in Australia would have been a little over $200 AUD. The poor LHS told me that at wholesale they would be paying more for the ESC than what I could order it as Retail from the states...

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DarkSammy RC-Monster Carbon Fiber Offline Posts: 182 Join Date: Apr 2013	11.05.2015, 06:32 PM Australia is looking to possibly change our tax scheme when importing goods. At the moment we pay no tax if the value is less than $1000, but this has hurt our local retailers as online shopping has boomed over the past decade... The trouble for our Hobby Stores in particular is that consumers can pay retail+shipping from overseas, and pay less than what our hobby shops are paying at wholesale from the product distributors. How is that even possible? I was looking for an ESC for a crawler about 12 months ago. I am not a rich man, but look to support local when I can. ESC would cost me about $60 USD ($80 AUD) including shipping to my door. I chatted to a LHS, and the cost to purchase in Australia would have been a little over $200 AUD. The poor LHS told me that at wholesale they would be paying more for the ESC than what I could order it as Retail from the states...