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highwind on 30/05/2018 - 17:38 files.ozbargain.com.au (5455 clicks)
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Received the following email from Amazon US, stating they will soon redirect all customers in Australia to Amazon.com.au in order to be GST compliant. Good news is, it included a $20 off unique voucher, so I assume everyone with an account would get something similar.

As a result of changes to Australian GST law, on 1 July 2018 Amazon’s international shopping options for Australian customers will change.

While we regret any inconvenience this may cause, from 1 July we will be redirecting Australian customers from our international Amazon sites to amazon.com.au where you can shop for products sold by Amazon US on the new Amazon Global Store, available today. We have taken this step to to provide our customers with continued access to international selection and allow us to remain compliant with the law which requires us to collect and remit GST on products sold on Amazon sites that are shipped from overseas.

Amazon Global Store will allow Australian customers to shop on amazon.com.au for over four million items that were previously only accessible on amazon.com. This selection is in addition to the more than 60 million products that are already available on amazon.com.au across 23 categories, including books, fashion, toys, and electronics.

To welcome you to amazon.com.au, and thank you for choosing to shop with us, we are offering you a $20 voucher to redeem against your next purchase on amazon.com.au of items sold and shipped by Amazon AU. Just include your unique promotional code below at checkout when purchasing eligible items (see full terms and conditions below).

Thank you for choosing to shop with Amazon.

Terms & Conditions of Use: These terms and conditions apply to the offer set out in this email. The email recipient can use the unique promotional code contained herein to receive $20 off their next purchase of any eligible item(s) made via the Amazon app or Amazon.com.au ("offer"). For the purpose of these terms and conditions "eligible items" refers to any product shipped and sold by Amazon AU on Amazon.com.au or Amazon app and excludes products sold by third party sellers (even if fulfilled by Amazon AU or shipped and sold by Amazon US), digital purchases such as e-books, subscriptions such as Prime Video and Audible, gift cards and postage or delivery rates. Amazon's standard delivery rates and policies apply to any purchase made pursuant to the offer. The unique promotional code can only be redeemed once by the selected email recipient on eligible items only. To redeem the offer, once you have added one or more eligible items to your cart, enter the promotional code into the relevant field during the checkout process on Amazon.com.au or Amazon app and your discount will be applied to the eligible items. If you do not add any eligible items to your cart, the promotional code will not apply to your order at checkout. If you return any item purchased using the promotional code, Amazon AU will only refund the price actually paid for the item (that is, less the value of the promotional code) and the promotional code will be invalidated. The promotional code is not transferable and may not be resold. This offer cannot be used on pre-existing orders. The promotional code will not apply to orders placed with 1-Click. If you violate any terms and conditions of the offer, your use of the promotional code will be invalid, and the discount will not apply. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or code for new customers or Amazon devices. Amazon reserves the right to cancel, amend or withdraw the offer at any time at its discretion. Amazon.com.au’s Conditions of Use and Sale apply. The offer is valid until 11:59PM (AEST) on 31 December 2018.

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  • Jetkuma on 30/05/2018 - 17:39
    +3

    What about those that live in both countries :/

    • Letrico on 30/05/2018 - 17:42
      +5

      I think it will just block Australia address when you checkout from Amazon US. Like how some of the products that does not ship to Australia.

      Use amazon.com.au to buy stuff to australian address and amazon.com to send stuff to US address.

      • lostn on 30/05/2018 - 18:51
        +6

        I find that it's much more expensive when you do that.

        Will we still be able to buy US region games and movies? OR will they say, hey that's available in your region too. Just get that version.

        • vbevan on 31/05/2018 - 12:12

          Yeah, this won't increase piracy lol

  • Crownanchor on 30/05/2018 - 17:41
    +42

    Is this change with the GST some of Gery Harveys work?

    • [Deactivated] on 30/05/2018 - 17:50
      +66

      I hope he loses more from spite than what he gains from the “more fair playing field”.

      • bobjane on 30/05/2018 - 18:10
        +51

        I think anyone shopping at Amazon US already has the sense not to shop at HN.

        • gooddealmate on 30/05/2018 - 18:24
          +6

          If they didn't spend so much on advertising, maybe they could afford to offer some genuine deals in their almost weekly sales events.

        • t25 on 30/05/2018 - 20:09
          +9

          @gooddealmate: More like if they just stopped thinking Australians were idiots and they could simply rip us off.

        • idonotknowwhy on 30/05/2018 - 21:44
          +17

          I got the $300 switch and $200 PS4 from Harvey Norman.
          Bargain hunters have no allegiance.

    • ibuy on 30/05/2018 - 18:07
      +86

      It was all because of Gerry Harvey.

      He can’t compete by lowering prices and better quality customer service so this is his way of playing dirty.

      Retail was never a level playing field and this does not level the score.

      Worst still the productivity commission estimates it will cost more than double to recover the GST on all the small transactions.

      The labor government shutt down Gerry Harvey on this when he tried during their government. However Liberals being liberals and supporting the rich passed this through.

      A total farce.

      • GourmetFoodie on 30/05/2018 - 18:26
        +28

        I hate Gerry Harvey soooo much

        • [Deactivated] on 30/05/2018 - 19:10
          +31

          @kev98:

          It is fair as far as GST goes but you’re forgetting the shipping component.

          Gerry ultimately wants price parity with Amazon. BUT Amazon need to air freight from the other side of the planet. Harvey does not.
          Like this

          Amazon: $70 + shipping = $100
          Harvey Norman = $100

          What’s happening behind the scenes is that Gerry buys that thing for $65 and instead of taking a FAIR profit of $5 he wants to take the whole $35 profit.

          Fair? GST yes. Greedy? Oh yeah.

          He doesn’t care about GST. He doesn’t care about “fair”. He wants to up the price comparison to line his pockets.

        • kev98 on 30/05/2018 - 19:23
          +2

          @LoopyLou: Unfortunately for Gerry though, his prices are always going to be higher than Amazons even with shipping & GST included. I don't think Gerry's protests are going to increase spending at his stores. At the most it will just mean more tax revenue for our trusty politicians & the consumer losing out etc etc. I guess we might just get a new road or something special :P

        • lonewolf on 31/05/2018 - 11:38
          +1

          @kev98:

          new road? no we will sell the rights to a toll company to charge us to use this new road, or more likely a toll to charge for a small section of an already existing road with an extra lane…..

    • xev on 30/05/2018 - 19:35
      +12

      Always refer to it as the 'Harvey Norman Tax'

      Gerry fought for it, he deserves full credit.

      • EnALup on 31/05/2018 - 08:50
        +4

        or Gerry Shitty Tax…

      • Charity on 31/05/2018 - 14:46
        +3

        But the polly's he bribed deserve credit too! :D

  • Jasonissm on 30/05/2018 - 17:43

    Haven't recieved mine yet no min purchase? Looks good!

  • BlazinPast on 30/05/2018 - 17:46
    +4

    Even if it redirects you, is there still a way to make a purchase on the US site if you wanted to?

    • Detective Pikachu on 30/05/2018 - 18:01

      Excluding stuff like Prime Video US specific content, it should still be possible, just like how we can access their regional stores at the moment. If not, then at most you may probably need a valid US billing address tied to your account.

    • hetzjagd on 30/05/2018 - 18:24

      Presumably a VPN will work if they otherwise haven't blocked delivery to Australian addresses. Definitely you don't want to use a free vpn service to do this as you will be entering in credit card details and passwords.

      • Antares on 30/05/2018 - 18:33
        +2

        These websites use SSL… Free or not-free VPN should not matter as long as SSL is active.

        • lancedefrance on 30/05/2018 - 19:05
          +1

          I dont understand what SSL/TLS has to do with VPN?

        • BartholemewH on 30/05/2018 - 19:28
          +2

          @lancedefrance:
          Nothing. That is the point.

        • idonotknowwhy on 30/05/2018 - 21:47

          @lancedefrance: Antares is saying that you can use dodgy networks like free VPNs and public libraries to make purchases using your credit card, because the payment gateways use transport layer security to encrypt your information in transit. Even if a malicious captures your packets over the network, they won't be able to decrypt your data.

        • banana365 on 30/05/2018 - 23:35

          @idonotknowwhy: Unless they're doing a man in the middle attack, which is relatively easy to do.

        • schquid on 30/05/2018 - 23:51
          +4

          @banana365: Unless you can successfully issue or posses a rogue cert for amazon.com, or exploit a major vulnerability against TLS then an MITM attack is impractical. They're also on the HSTS preload list so any modern browser will force TLS.

    • pennypincher98 on 30/05/2018 - 18:41
      +1

      I think Australia Post has a service called ShopMate in which you can get an American address which Amazon sends to and then ShopMate will bump your parcel to your address in Australia.

      • lostn on 30/05/2018 - 18:53
        +5

        Yeah but isn't their shipping charges expensive?

        • UncleRico on 30/05/2018 - 20:12
          +14

          Yep, hideously.

        • bindis on 06/06/2018 - 16:59

          @UncleRico: There is also USGoBuy - which has had really expensive shipping in the past, but just got an email the other day with some much more reasonable shipping rates advertised.

      • Mfau on 30/05/2018 - 20:20
        +1

        Australia Post sent out an email a week ago announcing that ShopMate will be charging the GST anyway:

        This change will mean that from 1 July 2018, Australia Post will be required to collect GST from you on items valued at $1,000AUD or less that you ship into Australia using ShopMate, and pay that GST to the Australian Tax Office (ATO). The rate of GST is 10%.

        You might have better luck with the other freight forwarders though (eg. MyUS / Shipito)

        • pennypincher98 on 30/05/2018 - 21:10

          Oh that's a shame :(

        • idonotknowwhy on 30/05/2018 - 21:49
          +18

          This almost justifies 2 yearly trips to the US. Buy everything over there, unbox, shove it up your ass and bring it back home with you.

        • closey on 30/05/2018 - 22:32
          +4

          @idonotknowwhy: that sounds like an interesting repacking experience

        • Tempri on 31/05/2018 - 13:09
          +1

          @idonotknowwhy: I died of laughter

        • sotko on 01/06/2018 - 11:26

          @idonotknowwhy:

          Lol. Burst out laughing reading this

    • Whisper Quiet on 31/05/2018 - 14:48
      +2

      If you're after electronic products there's still bhphoto and video. They have Amazon prices. Newegg has basically done the same as Amazon. Except if it's not available for Australian stock then it will be much cheaper.

  • Detective Pikachu on 30/05/2018 - 17:48

    The main positive I see with this change is shipping fee with the inclusion of the prior Amazon US only products, especially free delivery for orders over $49.

    • doweyy on 30/05/2018 - 17:50
      +18

      I don't think shipping will change, because you'll still pay the Amazon Global Shipping prices as stock won't be in aus. They'll just slap an extra 10% on to cover GST..

      • Detective Pikachu on 30/05/2018 - 17:53
        +7

        Considering their recent new fulfillment centre, I think they're getting serious with local product availability.

        • Scab on 30/05/2018 - 17:55
          +21

          Won't have close to the same range.

        • Detective Pikachu on 30/05/2018 - 17:56
          +4

          @Scab:
          Let's hope that's not the case then.

        • roofyapple on 30/05/2018 - 18:41
          +32

          But the problem is the local amazon Au prices are still high and not competitive . I can buy something from amazon us and pay shipping and still be better off then buying the same product from amazon Au.

        • samfisher5986 on 30/05/2018 - 18:54
          +1

          @Detective Pikachu:

          Sorry but you just aren't thinking about it.

          Its simply not possible logistically to stock the entire range for a reasonable cost while not having a ton of old stock that never sells at the same time.

          It works in the USA because it can bounce around everywhere for little cost.

        • poohduck on 30/05/2018 - 19:01
          +2

          @roofyapple: Yes! And the difference is much greater than 10%

        • poohduck on 30/05/2018 - 19:03

          @samfisher5986: I don't understund - most of the stuff on amazon.au seems to be from amazon.com (US)

        • Detective Pikachu on 30/05/2018 - 19:14
          +2

          @samfisher5986:

          My apologies if I somehow suggested that they would stock the entire range of Amazon US items locally, I was just hoping they'd end up with a similar level of local inventory to the other Amazon regional stores like Amazon UK, Amazon Europe or Amazon Japan, with the added option to opt to other regional stores for those region specific items.

        • Major Mess on 31/05/2018 - 03:32

          Yep. Last week I bought some camera accessories. Charger, batts, lens adapter, pocket tripod etc from Au and several brands were now the equivalent price to the US site. A lot of other stuff was still 2 to 4 times the price, but it looks like that is changing.

    • lostn on 30/05/2018 - 18:53

      free shipping is only on products sold by and shipped from Amazon AU.

      • poohduck on 30/05/2018 - 19:04

        Haven't seen any free shipping. Maybe because most of their stuff is from US?

    • thord on 31/05/2018 - 13:30
      +3

      No way is that happening. Everything shipped from Amazon US except for:

      • items restricted by brands (e.g. Burton refuses to allow sellers to internationally ship their items, they dictate the prices)
      • items sold by sellers who can't be bothered/don't want to ship internationally.

      We haven't missed out on anything. Everything sold direct by amazon without restriction could be sent to australia previously, and for a pittance. Their shipping costs were amazing, often under $6 for a 1 week delivery.

      There is nothing good about this change.

  • Frozensage on 30/05/2018 - 17:50
    -3

    so everything is the same except the url has a .au on the end of it?

    • poohduck on 30/05/2018 - 19:04
      +29

      And you pay more

    • thord on 31/05/2018 - 13:32
      +4

      It looks like the range of items will be cut significantly. If we're pushed from the .com store to a "global" store, the only reason for doing that is to limit item availability. There was nothing on .com that wouldn't ship to aus unless it was manufactuerer restricted (which won't change), or re-seller only shipped locally (which again won't change).

      There isn't anything good about this change.

  • Sage on 30/05/2018 - 17:51
    -3

    What's the point of posting this deal of there is no voucher to share.

    • highwind on 30/05/2018 - 17:54
      +11

      It's a unique voucher linked to your account. It's for you to keep an eye out for the email.

      • chyawala on 31/05/2018 - 07:42
        +1

        So do you need to have your address set to AU?

  • Caped Baldy on 30/05/2018 - 17:51

    Do we know if it only covers amazon stocked items? Third party still might ship here?

    • thord on 31/05/2018 - 13:33
      +1

      It's likely .com will block all australian addresses

  • jimmyj316 on 30/05/2018 - 17:52
    +3

    I read it as things from Amazon US will be available, just to be ordered on the .com.au site.

    "will be redirecting Australian customers from our international Amazon sites to amazon.com.au where you can shop for products sold by Amazon US"

    • WazzaP on 30/05/2018 - 18:08
      +1

      The way I read that is you will be able to buy stuff that's directly sold by amazon US, but not stuff that's sold by a third party on amazon US - I do wonder if "fulfilled by amazon" will be included being that they warehouse the FBA stuff too.

    • [Deactivated] on 30/05/2018 - 18:10

      As of next financial year overseas businesses must charge GST as if it's an Australian sale.

    • thord on 31/05/2018 - 13:34
      +1

      I initially read it that way as well, but the more you look the worse it gets.

      You can already buy from .com today. I've been doing it for years. There's no need to redirect to .com.au.

      What this really means is that a handful of items may copy/paste to .com.au (still shipped from the US), but the actual .com site and all the other items there will now be off limits.

  • jasswolf on 30/05/2018 - 17:52

    Well I guess we know when Amazon Prime is launching here…

    • lostn on 30/05/2018 - 18:55
      -1

      If it makes shipping of US products free, I'd take it..

  • Helenn on 30/05/2018 - 17:52
    +34

    This is actually terrible. Didn't see this coming but will probably be more than Amazon

  • petry on 30/05/2018 - 17:57

    tapped in the head and your to blame - same old song…..

    what the hell did you think was coming?

  • mrshorty on 30/05/2018 - 17:58
    +2

    Noooooooooooooo - I have some Amazon credit that I'll need to buy stuff with then b4 the changeover

  • bamzero on 30/05/2018 - 18:00
    +18

    Let's hope Amazon Global on the AU site is priced the same as it is on the US site, and not "adjusted" for the Australian market…

    Even with GST a good US deal can be half the local price.

    • petry on 30/05/2018 - 18:14
      +20

      more chance for world peace…

    • OzViper on 30/05/2018 - 18:17
      +14

      This change will mean they will easily be able to hike the price up for Australian buyers whenever they want..
      No Doubt they will be monitoring local prices and adjust theirs so it is only just a little cheaper than local..

  • Mobe1969 on 30/05/2018 - 18:00
    +11

    Ah, what the effing etc. Please, no.

  • [Deactivated] on 30/05/2018 - 18:01
    +2

    Wow those t&c's hurt my eyes

    • marctas on 30/05/2018 - 19:22

      lol i need to go to specsavers

      • darthsparrow on 30/05/2018 - 20:10

        Wait for OzBargain deals.

  • tonyjg on 30/05/2018 - 18:04
    +29

    AND WHAT ABOUT AMAZON UK ?? Germany and France ??

    WELL F* YOU for the worst Govt ever.

    • garage sale on 30/05/2018 - 18:31
      +23

      ask your friends who they voted for …..we get the governments we voted for.

      • lostn on 30/05/2018 - 18:56
        +4

        It was a razor thin election. Coalition had barely enough seats to form government.

        • Mobe1969 on 30/05/2018 - 19:59

          Voting in Australia, and probably every other so called Western "democracies", or as I call them, bipartisan dictatorships, is like having to decide if you would like someone to a) take a sledgehammer to your left hand, or b) take a sledgehammer to your right hand. You are xxxxed whoever is having their turn, so my philosophy is to apply the Serenity Prayer, ignore it, and enjoy life.

        • gringo on 30/05/2018 - 20:11
          +9

          I think you'll find that this change had bipartisan support. Nobody cared enough to pull either party up on it.

          Get ready also for the $5 surcharge on overseas parcels which they'll slip in sometime soon.. there is no way the 10% GST on a 0.99c package can work otherwise.

        • UncleRico on 30/05/2018 - 20:19
          +1

          @gringo:

          Nooooooooooooooooo…

          Say it isn't so! I'll never complete my Xiaomi collection if this comes in!

        • Crocfreefree on 30/05/2018 - 22:51

          @Mobe1969:

          Serenity now, insanity later.

          — Lloyd Braun

        • ASmugDill on 30/05/2018 - 23:50
          +2

          @Mobe1969: I disagree. Voting is up to you, and you don't have to vote for either of the major parties. The outcome on the other hand is not up to you, but just something you need to deal with irrespective of your voting activity. There's a logical difference between the two, so take heart.

        • Mobe1969 on 31/05/2018 - 06:56

          @ASmugDill:
          And there is the unknown misinformation / lie. We have a friggin preferential voting system. They don't teach people this.

          If you have 20 candidates in your electorate, and you put liberal 19 and labour 20, your vote will count to liberal if they are the top two. If you vote the newer style vote where you just put the 1 against your preferred candidate, it means you accept who that candidate has put forward as their preferences, so your vote will got to whomever they put first, labor or liberal.

          You don't have the option of not voting for either of these aholes unless you vote informally and put a huge xxxx you on the ballot.

          This is why I just ignore it. We have a rigged bipartisan system, and voters are too clueless to know they have no choice. I didn't know about it. I was not taught. Someone I worked for at University was in the liberal party, and he explained it to me. It was devesating to learn, and realise hardly anyone knows this.

        • ippy on 31/05/2018 - 10:51

          @Mobe1969: if everyone preferenced a minor party instead then they could have a chance. You should be promoting voting for a minor party rather than not voting at all.

        • rokufan on 31/05/2018 - 15:21

          @gringo: Correct, this was bipartisan. The SDA (retail workers union) had been pushing for this change for years to protect retail workers' jobs.

    • FeZZa21 on 30/05/2018 - 19:54
      +4

      To think the same govt who's ex deputy went on national TV to tell Australia how he shagged his assistant and had a baby, and made 150K in profit.

      All liberals are a bunch of inbred vegetables.

      • UncleRico on 30/05/2018 - 20:21
        +1

        Er, that's as simplistic and uninformed as saying all Labour and their supporters are ill-informed economic girly men!

        I think you'll also find that Barnaby is a National, not a Liberal…

      • t3chshopper on 30/05/2018 - 20:25
        +3

        Except he isn't a member of the Liberals - he's a National party MP.

        Edit: Beaten to the punch.

      • rokufan on 31/05/2018 - 15:31

        @FeZZa21 Brilliant. Lets judge everyone in a group by the bad apple or apples.

      • Assclown on 31/05/2018 - 17:36

        Am I the only one that read FeZZa21's comment the way it was written?
        Nowhere did he say Barnaby was a Liberal lol.

        Sounds to me like we have some Pro Liberals here who are a little cloudy lol.

        He clearly states:

        "To think the same govt who's ex deputy went on national TV to tell Australia how he shagged his assistant and had a baby, and made 150K in profit".

        Now this Government he is referring to is the Coalition government. Which as you well know, is formed by Liberal and National party MP's. His statement is correct!

        His next sentence has nothing to do with the Nationals or Barnaby. He clearly states "ALL liberals are a bunch of inbred vegetables".

        So next time before you get too cloudy, have a think about what is actually written lol.

        The only thing you could pick on in his statement was the reference to having a baby. He left out Barnaby isn't the biological father either. She's a keeper lol

        • GregMonarch on 01/06/2018 - 23:21

          I believe 'bank' is a more appropriate term than 'keeper'. (i.e Sperm bank.)

        • t3chshopper on 04/06/2018 - 16:19

          If I was really going to nitpick, I'd have pointed out that it's not a liberal government at all, but a conservative one (note the lower case 'l'.)

          So if you're going to treat the two sentences as distinct thoughts, he's actually calling the opposition a bunch of inbred vegetables.

  • R4 on 30/05/2018 - 18:06
    +5

    Time to start shipping stuff from US Amazon via my Auntie in California!

    • andylch on 30/05/2018 - 18:09
      +1

      Or just use those forwarder services out there.

      • R4 on 30/05/2018 - 18:45
        +14

        Have you seen what they charge?

        Eyewatering!

      • redfoxman on 31/05/2018 - 13:23
        +1

        Freight forwarder will need to collect the GST from you as well..

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