Products sold by Amazon US on Amazon AU, price remains expensive

LAsukaST on 28/11/2019 - 10:22
Last edited 28/11/2019 - 10:25

I am talking about products sold by Amazon US on Amazon AU

So I have been waiting patiently for Black Friday deals for a few months, tracking for the best price to buy a 10tb external HDD. The cheapest one would be Seagate or WD on Amazon AU, sold by Amazon US

Until a month ago, the AUD price of the same product on Amazon AU, basically follows the USD price on Amazon US. When USD price falls, the AUD price follows. When USD price goes up, the AUD price goes up as well.

Since late Oct, the AUD price remains expensive while the USD price is discounted.

For example, a Seagate 10tb external HDD is now $160 USD. If we put the extra 10% GST in, that's equivalent to $260 AUD. But it's now $300 AUD.

A WD 10tb was $166.50 USD in early November, and is $160 USD now. But it remains $300 AUD for the whole month.

So we are now worse off than last year's Black Friday, we either
1. Pay 20% more expensive on Amazon AU
Or
2. Pay expensive shipping on Amazon US and unable to enjoy 12% cash back from cash reward or shop back

I am pretty upset 😠

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Comments

  • pjetson on 28/11/2019 - 10:34

    I am pretty upset

    :-( but the price still seems cheaper than anyone in Australia is selling them for.

  • GG57 on 28/11/2019 - 10:41
    +3

    But you don't have to buy.

  • dizzle on 28/11/2019 - 10:47

    So the question is, how much is "expensive" shipping from the US? When you've calculated that the US price is $260 including GST, it's only a difference of $40. Take shipping out of that and it's not much difference.

    There may be other cases where there is more of a difference, but the example you've given isn't much. Given that Amazon AU has local warehouses, their also paying Au wages (still not great but at least we have a minimum wage, where US warehouse workers I'm sure son't get as much)

    • AsukaST on 28/11/2019 - 10:50

      I am talking about the same product with the same seller
      It's "sold by Amazon US on Amazon AU" vs "sold by Amazon US on Amazon US".
      Local warehouse isn't related. It ships directly from US

      • raptormesh on 28/11/2019 - 10:54

        I don't understand, so you roughly pay the same price overall when comparing both methods?

        • AsukaST on 28/11/2019 - 10:56

          You may put it in that way
          But we are 20% worse off now than before they changed their policy.

      • IVI on 28/11/2019 - 12:14
        -6

        Lotsa extra
        handing, in
        US=>AU trip

        More chance
        of Drop Dam-
        age? Time-
        cost/Data-
        loss IF its
        dropped &
        won't work
        or dies
        earlier…

  • DarthAntz on 28/11/2019 - 11:00
    +2

    You've still got it pretty good in Australia. Compare the prices to hardware in Japan's Amazon, where there is a higher tax on electronics. Its only the exchange rate that is keeping you upset.

    • IVI on 28/11/2019 - 12:16
      -6

      How is, say, the Franc price
      vs
      AU's Dollar price
      (vs, eg, the US$)?

      Is the Aussie "sinking"
      or moving ~same as Fr.?

  • konradp on 28/11/2019 - 12:21
    +1

    Buy it direct via www.amazon.com not www.amazon.com.au

    i bought the 10tb seagate today + shipping for 295AUD

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0798DVKRV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b…

    WD is the same price

  • foxmulder on 28/11/2019 - 12:41

    Comparing both method it seems that the difference is really not much. In Amazon AU you get the item at $300 minus cashbacks of around 5% thus $185. In Amazon US it's $160 plus currncty $80 plus GST $24 plus shipping of roughly $25.

  • spackbace on 28/11/2019 - 15:21

    I am pretty upset

    You must have a pretty care-free life then…

  • pjetson on 29/11/2019 - 09:43

    It seems that there's a front-page deal for a 10TB drive right now.

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