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Most any of them will beat the local guys , and you'll avoid paying GST so long the item is posted to you rather than shipped by courier or freight.
The problem is that on big items , large mass and large volumetric mass, postage and freight charges are murder , even by surface .
Another problem is that to protect the local dealers , some companies (Meade, Celestron, Vixen, Orion TS, TeleView for instance) will not allow OS dealers to ship overseas and the warantee wont be recognised here. Local dealers (the big ones) here are very adverse to competition on price and so are able to hold the prices high despite the improved foreign exchange rates (cf a couple of years ago) .... more profit for them .
In all fairness prices on imported products should now be a lot cheaper cf with a few of years ago when the 1AUD = 0.65USD where it is now better than 1AUD = 0.92USD. But have prices on imported astro stuff, mounts and scopes come down ?
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