.....12 years, i have been limiting my order to US $400 or $420 including post. there were instances that i had to pay A$50-A$55 tax only because it went over the cut-off of A$50 and over. On those particular days, the US dollars was stronger against the oz dollars so my calculation was off.
...it was mentioned earlier that if the total Taxable figure due is less than a$50, its more than likely to be waived. this does not guarantee that no tax will be collected. i have paid tax twice under the A$50 mark.to calculate the import tax , its best to go to the site.

i received 3 parcels this week from 3 different countries using 3 different postal service. all amounts are close to US$400. NO TAX WAS DUE.



ONE OF THE PARCEL IS FROM RCMODEL....NO PROBLEM THERE (MY 16TH ORDER FROM THIS SELLER)...

couldnt agree more. we dont have a local hobby shop or had any form of hobby shop selling or supporting beginners with rc car stuff (that you can take an race to get interest) in tamworth since george left and headed to sydney (hobbytown) years ago...

i get almost all of my stuff from sydney anyway and only pay 5 to 10aud dollars more or the same price as i would if i bought the items overseas most of the time within reason (of course depending on items where talking about and who imports them...).

also, it would be a little hard getting warranty of overseas suppliers wouldnt it? as many dont send any recipts etc or provide any proof purchase for warranty purposes.

If no one buys locally then the shops wont be there.

And that will piss us all off.

We are losing a shop in Windsor because the electric drivers didnt support it. ( I run nitro)

It wont be long before we see shops in other places take a dive.

I have been stung by parcels not arriving from OS shops, so I would prefer to get it locally, pay the $$ and walk out with the goods.

The OX

most of the time that don't have the stuff you want or even the parts 2 times the price i got a fw-05 s just for the s speed they wanted $159 from o/s 50 us and 5 for post

I'm just getting back into the hobby and i'm buying just about all my stuff from OS. It all adds up to a saving of over $1500 aud!

I'm buying in lots of $400 or under (expect for the car) to try and avoid tax. But even if you get pinged and need to pay tax. It's not gonna be $1500.

This hobby is expensive enough as it is. This is a good way of reducing the costs.

Funny how a simple question like

"how much $ worth of stuff can you bring in before customs charge you"

turned into a OS vs LHS flame-o-rama

last time i got something major for a friend, it was $500au including the freight costs as mentioned many times previously or bald lil johnny slugs you about $80 in gst + fees.

Well in the LHS the car is $750, Getting it from america is under $500 to my door. Which one whould you get?

LHS are great....but so bloody expensive.

OS, you would be crazy not to.

all i was saying is that this has been done to death on numerous other threads.......

Hey oblivion

Which courier freight service did you use?

tower hobbies USPS air mail (regular air)
it was like $50 gst, 20 for this, 10 for somethin else.. (pretty much anything they could think of)

so now i make sure my orders including freight costs total no more than 450 so im well under.

is that 450 us or au

$450 Aus coz $500Au is where they slug ya.

ie: $300 USD parts + $40 USD freight ($340usd total) = $452Aus total..

ok thanks oblivion

I just collected my order from rcmodel.hk, $270 australian. Didn't get charged any custom fees/tarriffs.

To the workbench!