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Coming from an industry that has to import large items from the USA and Asia I can confirm shipping is a major headache. Most retailers rely on the Australian distributers and do not directly import themselves. The distributer brings in shipping containers and then passes the items on to the reseller. There are two major issues, one is as the items are coming into the country by shipping container, there is a major back log of ships in Singapore and the South China sea. Most containers bound for AU travel this way. The second issue is also effecting air freight, large items can be booked for a flight and miss it multiple times sitting at an airport for weeks. This was especially bad last month as the USA was going through one of their picking seasons and all their produce got priority air space so it did not spoil. Not to mention that a shipping container from the USA pre Covid was $1000-$2000 and now is a minimum of $6000 and can go as high as $10000. Things are not going to get better soon.
If you want something from a reseller in Australia this year and they have it in stock, my advice is get it now. Waiting could be your worst enemy at present.
The other option is purchase from overseas yourself small shipments are not always so caught up in the global transport issue.
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