thanks for the advice guys, must say I'm staggered at the way customs is applied and would have thought that in any fair-minded approach (what was I thinking
) that the GST etc would only apply to the component of cost above $1000 instead of the whole amount... makes for a might big jump in cost between something costing $999AU and something costing $ 1001 - the latter ending up costing nearly $200 more!!!
ah well, this means I have to think some more about whether I want a DMK firewire camera at ~$695AU or a Lumenera Skynx at ~$1300 (which I was favouring) but which with tax will cost ~$1520... annoying
cheers,