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03-06-2020, 04:03 PM
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Senior Citizen
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bribie Island
Posts: 5,059
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyG
I hope there's some warranty left by the time I get it.
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03-06-2020, 07:28 PM
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No. I am a meat popsicle.
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Townsville
Posts: 598
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashDrive
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I should just clarify my mockery is limited at AusPost, not Bintel. We all know both organisations are famous for their solid positions at each end of the performance spectrum.
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03-06-2020, 09:27 PM
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Time Traveller
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Bairnsdale VIC
Posts: 385
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I'm still waiting from orders from the UK after 8 weeks
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04-06-2020, 09:26 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kilmore, Australia
Posts: 3,342
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I have just contacted Agena again to see if they will refund my bit at this point, it has been "awaiting international departure" at Los Angeles for over 8 weeks now. As the crow flies if it arrived today it will have averaged under 1KMH between there and here!
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04-06-2020, 12:03 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Warragul, Vic
Posts: 4,494
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My BCF-2 DSLR conversion filter took 2 months to arrive from the UK by post and that included a return trip to Langley. I only bought from overseas because it was out of stock here but I'm wary of any international orders from now on.
We sent a digeridoo to the US by courier and it got there within a week.
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04-06-2020, 02:29 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kilmore, Australia
Posts: 3,342
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No sooner did I write that than the tracking updated on my adapter. It seems to have finished it's long service leave at last and be on the move again. USPS must have strapped it to a glacier to get it out of the building.
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04-06-2020, 06:30 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Paul, I think my item is strapped to the glacier behind yours.
No update since the 27th for me. USPS was very prompt sending me updates via email, UNTIL it sat at LAX for a month. Now they don't bother sending emails.
In other news, my 2 month Swiss item arrived today at long last, and my latest round of Chinese orders ordered just last Friday/Saturday have all arrived (that takes into account the weekend and Canberra's public holiday on Monday). I ordered some more Chinese items today since local dealers are either out or price gouging (like twice the price), so I expect them early next week considering all of them have been marked as posted (2 hours after I placed the order).
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05-06-2020, 05:54 PM
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No. I am a meat popsicle.
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Townsville
Posts: 598
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Has anyone seen the weather around Townsville today? Yep, my camera arrived from Sydney in 2 days. Guess I better eat my hat, between bouts of sulking.
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05-06-2020, 06:01 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Which is funny Andy because a book I ordered from Angus and Robertson took 4 days to get here from Sydney, then sat at the local sorting centre - a 10 min drive away - for 3 days.
Quicker from China
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07-06-2020, 08:03 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Sydney
Posts: 4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nikolas
Hi all
Just asking how deliveries are going from overseas, China and Europe mainly I hear all sorts of convoluted reports but am interested in anyones first hand experience.
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I Placed an order with Aliexpress on the 12th April 2020, tracking indicates that its left China and is in transit, Aliexpress are generally prompt with dispatches so I can only assume that covid has caused delivery delays.
Lets just hope that things are NOT lost in space!
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07-06-2020, 08:55 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kilmore, Australia
Posts: 3,342
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Interesting bit of revisionism going on with USPS tracking. Now the tracking says it was processed through the joint in LA two days before it did last time I looked, and the previous history telling the story of it sitting there for eight weeks has disappeared.
Stupid things is that by the time I get it I probably wont need it any more.
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07-06-2020, 10:28 PM
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Supernova Searcher
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Cambroon Queensland Australia
Posts: 9,315
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No info from USPS for five weeks,now a post from them every 24 hours,telling me the same thing that the have for the last week.
"It has arrived at their international terminal and is in transit to me"
BTW, How is the GST paid on overseas goods now?
Cheers
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07-06-2020, 10:49 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Perth
Posts: 373
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I ordered a ZWO accessory on 28th April, and got it 4th May. Also ordered some 3D printed components from US on 14th May, and got that on 3rd May - this is delivery to Perth.
BTW both items reached eastern states shores around 22nd May.
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07-06-2020, 10:49 PM
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Always gonna be a NOOB...
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Cairns, Qld
Posts: 1,285
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Quote:
Originally Posted by astroron
How is the GST paid on overseas goods now?
Cheers
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My understanding is that if you weren't charged up front & it arrives here & someone thinks you should be paying GST then, you will receive notification that it will only be released for onforwarding after payment of GST & one presumes they give you the amount & who to pay it to...
Having said that, I've ordered a few things that have been of several hundred dollar value post the changes to GST rules & not been required to pay it on any of them...
The whole thing is a bit complex... Amazon, Ebay & Aliexpress just add it in to the transaction these days. To be liable to collecting/charging GST on goods under $1000 the business overseas needs to have an annual turnover in Australia of over $75,000 (I think that's the figure)... not sure how many overseas astro businesses would meet that criteria...
More expensive items, I think you get an invoice from Customs...
Fingers crossed, it just arrives on your doorstep...
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07-06-2020, 11:32 PM
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Supernova Searcher
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Cambroon Queensland Australia
Posts: 9,315
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Outcast
My understanding is that if you weren't charged up front & it arrives here & someone thinks you should be paying GST then, you will receive notification that it will only be released for onforwarding after payment of GST & one presumes they give you the amount & who to pay it to...
Having said that, I've ordered a few things that have been of several hundred dollar value post the changes to GST rules & not been required to pay it on any of them...
The whole thing is a bit complex... Amazon, Ebay & Aliexpress just add it in to the transaction these days. To be liable to collecting/charging GST on goods under $1000 the business overseas needs to have an annual turnover in Australia of over $75,000 (I think that's the figure)... not sure how many overseas astro businesses would meet that criteria...
More expensive items, I think you get an invoice from Customs...
Fingers crossed, it just arrives on your doorstep...
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Thanks,I await with trepidation as to when it arrives
At the rate things are going it will be in Solar cycle 26 when I receive it
Cheers
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07-06-2020, 11:52 PM
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Dazed and confused
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3,268
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I received my zwo mini 120mm from zwo directly took 8 days didn't pay gst on it
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10-06-2020, 06:18 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Hooray !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latest update - my US item has arrived in Melbourne today:
Your item was processed through a facility in AUSTRALIA on June 10, 2020 at 1:36 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
Status
In-Transit
June 10, 2020 at 1:36 pm
Processed Through Facility
AUSTRALIA
Now, it arrived in Melbourne, NOT Sydney, so give AusPost another month to get it here...
Most recent update
International arrival - awaiting clearance
MELBOURNE VIC
Date & time Wed 10 Jun • 1:36pm
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10-06-2020, 06:24 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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And other updates:
7nm SVBony H-a filter, bought on Monday ex-Shenzen, China, sent SpeedPak - Chullora today (might get it by end of week) - that's amazing!!!
Guidescope rings bought Thursday last week Shenzen China, shows as Sydney today.
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12-06-2020, 03:02 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Kilmore, Australia
Posts: 3,342
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Sigh, it appears that the glacier has mine again, six days since it "Arrived" at an airport in LA and nothing since, and that last update was two months after it arrived somewhere else in LA.
Having just ordered a new camera which will remove the 2" filter I am using now, which is the only reason I need a step up adapter from 48 to 54mm to begin with, it will be touch and go if I even have somewhere in the image train that this thing will fit by the time it arrives. I don't expect the camera until early to mid July but I am not sure that I expect the adapter until 2021 the way this is going.
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12-06-2020, 04:27 PM
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Novichok test rabbit
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere in the cosmos...
Posts: 10,388
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Never fear, Melbourne branch of Customs and Border Protection took a liking to my ex-USA package, and it was held in Melbourne by Customs, only being released to AusPost today after lunch. I might see it next week.
The wife did say I didn't need those pills
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