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Buying Stuff From Overseas
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With our currency doing strongly against the US, I'm wondering whether any Aussies here have been taking advantage of that and purchasing from the US? For some reason, our Australian goods tend to be overpriced, even factoring in currency conversion. For example, a 17" Apple Macbook Pro from the US apple store is priced at $2,799.00 USD, while the Australian counterpart is going for $ 3,799.00 AUD. Given the exchange rate of around 0.93, it should only be around $3010 AUD - that extra $800 is quite a large markup - that's almost 20%!

I know some places like B&H ship internationally, and we get quite a bit of savings there, although you have to factor in the shipping costs as well. Then there's the issue about warranty, and power plugs, etc.

What have your experiences been like? Do you prefer to buy your goods internationally?
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Buying Stuff From Overseas - by shuttertalk - Jun 29, 2008, 21:45
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by Wedding Shooter - Jun 30, 2008, 08:08
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by bryancrump - Jun 30, 2008, 10:41
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by shuttertalk - Jul 1, 2008, 01:17
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by wulinka - Jul 1, 2008, 03:35
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by henryp - Jul 1, 2008, 15:02
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by henryp - Jul 1, 2008, 15:08
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by wulinka - Jul 1, 2008, 23:18
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by Kombisaurus - Jul 2, 2008, 02:43
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by henryp - Jul 2, 2008, 07:18
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by shuttertalk - Jul 2, 2008, 20:10
Buying Stuff From Overseas - by matthew - Jul 2, 2008, 20:59

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