This is a pretty good price for the TS100 has been slowly dropping down, and sitting at $70 AUD at moment with no GST as comes from AU Source.
Updated, now $65.42 including the GST from CN Store
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Shipping from AU so GST-Free, is what it says, you change it to CN and then it applies GST
Shipping from AU so GST-Free
Everything I ship from within Australia includes GST. Unless the goods are gst exempt, such as condoms.
Everything I ship from within Australia includes GST.
Plenty of goods are sold without GST, mainly ones that are sent from China and the eBay sellers claiming they're in Australia. This would work the same way, they send them into Australia without GST and have them resent to the purchaser. Plenty of ways around the Harvey Norman GST laws.
@Maverick-au: Send them one at a time or in a container? Think it through. I'll work through this one with you.
Send them one at a time or in a container? Think it through. I'll work through this one with you.
They can send them through multiple ways, to a warehouse in Australia or to a house or a company that offers reshipping. They can change the sender to keep under the $75,000 GST limit. Resend from inside Australia with no GST.
@Maverick-au: Postage is free for a developing country. See what Trump has to say about that. So you are saying the retailer then wears the postage cost from the Aussie warehouse to the customer.
Nope. Some companies choose to not pay the tax(It is the Australian Federal Government making a claim that these sellers magically become under the Commonwealth of Australia's jurisdiction by selling to Australians. This was a main complaint of the reports compiled before the tax was legislated and it is not enforceable). With products sold by overseas companies but shipped from local warehouses, like is done by a lot of sellers on ebay, they are exempt due to a technicality. For other foreign sellers on ebay who choose to not have ebay collect GST all they need to do is make up a fictional Australian address and then ebay won't add the charge regardless of where the goods are shipped from. The tax is simply, a joke, and aimed to hurt Australian consumers and limit the technical education and advancement of financially disadvantaged citizens. All for the gain of a few wealth Australian retailers, and to protect their charging of their "Australia Tax". The tax department are aware this is happening but can do nothing and as with the Harvey Norman tax itself, they think it is all unworkable and silly. Customs have no interest as their legislation only covers the old "duty" legislation for goods over $1000.
As an aside, this technically makes these warehouses, the Australian distributor of these products, and under consumer law therefore the manufacturer and responsible for the goods meeting the Australian federal and state Consumer Guarantees. That is if you have any issues, you can technically take the warehouse to the state tribunals and report them to the ACCC, as it is under their jurisdictions due to the Federal Government's delusional claim.
PS It is not just Asian companies who ignore the tax claim. Some big name USA and European sellers will not charge the GST, but the $1000 customs duty will still apply.
@Major Mess: Maverick was suggesting they were sent to the Australian distributor first. You're saying they just lie and say they have an Australian address. if that is the case and their turnover is less than 75k, then potentially they could avoid the get. But there are enough laws to be able to enforce GST In any other case.
Something that annoys me far more is eBay charging GST on overseas sales to Australians from sellers who beyond doubt are extremely small and often not businesses.
@[Deactivated]: That's because under the new law, eBay is responsible for collecting gst, not the actual seller. So you see gst as a separate transaction to the thing you buy on your credit card statements
Maverick was suggesting they were sent to the Australian distributor first. You're saying they just lie and say they have an Australian address. if that is the case and their turnover is less than 75k, then potentially they could avoid the get. But there are enough laws to be able to enforce GST In any other case.
I didn't say anything about an Australian distributor. I said that they send them to Australia and from here ship to the customer and they don't pay GST by altering the sender details when sending into Australia.
I also said that eBay sellers claim they are in Australia which also gets around the GST.
@Maverick-au: OK. you said they send them to Australia, then the item is forwarded to the the customer in Australia. Are you saying it is not sent directly to the customer from China? I can see how sending single items may circumvent GST if they are sent somewhere else before going to the customer. But I can then see postage costs increase dramatically and eventually some alarm bells ringing somewhere once the ATO processes a few algorithms. I do not see a (legal) rort anywhere.
OK. you said they send them to Australia, then the item is forwarded to the the customer in Australia. Are you saying it is not sent directly to the customer from China?
This item is sent from inside Australia. They can send a heap of these from China to an address and not pay GST, they don't have to send them individually. They resend inside Australia and they're GST free.
I can see how sending single items may circumvent GST if they are sent somewhere else before going to the customer.
They can send direct to customers from China and pay no GST.
But I can then see postage costs increase dramatically and eventually some alarm bells ringing somewhere once the ATO processes a few algorithms. I do not see a (legal) rort anywhere.
Alarm bells in the ATO? Why would they? They don't monitor postage into the country and it's easy to get around paying the GST.
@Maverick-au: If it is over $1000 value in the "heap" sent from China, then customs will still charge tariffs and GST. I had the impression you believed there was a legal way to circumvent the obligations for GST. Now it is clear they are simply lying to avoid the obligations Australia places on them. In which case, yes, people are lying to avoid GST and it isn't just the Chinese.
If it is over $1000 value in the "heap" sent from China, then customs will still charge tariffs and GST. I had the impression you believed there was a legal way to circumvent the obligations for GST. Now it is clear they are simply lying to avoid the obligations Australia places on them. In which case, yes, people are lying to avoid GST and it isn't just the Chinese.
The Australian government charging GST to overseas sellers is a beach of our signed tax treaties and people getting around it are not avoiding any obligations. The Australian government bullied companies into paying the GST
And the people in Australia are Chinese as well.
@Maverick-au: Where do you believe it violates any double tax agreements between Australia and other countries? Here is the AU/CN agreement:
http://www.chinatax.gov.cn/n810341/n810770/c1152993/part/115…
Given your belief about this, why is the EU implementing similar arrangements presently which will come into full force in 2021? I submit anyone avoiding the tax is violating Australian law. Whether I agree with the law is another issue altogether.
Agree. Doesn't make sense.
Makes plenty of sense.
Actually is doesn't. And I have qualifications to back it up. But I like a laugh, tell me your theories.
Price showing as $71, not $70, so only $4 saving…
Price showing as $71, not $70, so only $4 saving
Was $75.20 and now $70.86 so a $4.34 saving seeing as you like to be so precise.
Great iron though. Worth every cent of $70
If you set the warehouse to China (CN), with GST and shipping it comes to a total of AUD $64.11
This appears to be around the normal cheaper ebay Australia price. I bought one at the end of February for $69.99 less 10% ebay code discount, delivered from Sydney. I didn't do a search but my seller now has them for $72.99.
edit: The most common cheap price seems to be $70.99.
This seller has them for $68.80.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-TS100-OLED-Digital-65W-Sold…
Note: Check which tip is included, as they tend to be sold with two different styles and the one included may not be what you want.
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Just need a deal on the type C TS80!
Ts80 is overpriced and the tips are twice the cost almost also.
This thing is amazing. Get the TS d24 chisel tip also. I run mine on a 1550 4s lipo.
Built about 8 multirotors with this thing.
Is there any good prices for the chisel tip that your aware of?
Banggood has them for around $15 aud
Did you see the tests where Louis Rossman put a 'shovel tip' on it to dismount mass SMD chips? Even on a solid heatsink for minutes, it dropped less than 10C!
I love mine. And the Open Source Firmware is to die for.
I love Louis :) I saw that one.
What's better, this or the TS80?
The TS80 is slightly smaller and heavier, and usb-c
How is this exempt from GST ?