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Originally Posted by bforce
Well after a bit more addition etc. I'm not sure how Popcultcha can offer it for $1699.99AUD, so for anyone in Australia jump on it if you can (especially if you have Pennies to discount it further). Maybe they locked it in when the AUD was high, maybe they got a great shipping deal. I went back and looked at see if I ordered an exclusive version or something - but no just one of the 150 on offer.
Just based on current exchange rates (which may change again when it hits Australian customs) - with all import taxes, fees etc, it will amount to roughly shy of $2K.
Deposit, Balance and Shipping - I can get around $1699.99AUD, but then you need to add import fees, GST and processing.
Oh well, just another reason after almost 20years of collecting I've decided to get out of it - this being the last piece I have on Pre-Order.
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I feel your pain fellow collector!
I feel sorry for any collector when they have to import a statue whether it's the U.S. buying from XM is expensive or the U.K. and Austrailia as well as other countries ordering from Sideshow and PCS.
I feel the U.K. and Australia might have it the worse when it comes to shipping prices as I always see from members that it cost almost as much as an old premium format just to ship it to them. It's crazy that countries are greedy by charging an import fee as well as taxing it.
Always hidden fees by law makers and governments, but when the public is deceitful it is looked down upon. I never understood how all products end up being taxed multiple times if you think about it and then taxed again when you import it... Taxes are Evil and a scam In how the structure is to tax products multiple times which is another topic in iteslf.
When shipping prices are very high these crappy monopoly shipping companies should have better policies to deliver better without any damage to the box...
It's crazy, how shipping companies keep raising their shipping prices, but their customer service on handling packages with care never improves. Where's Amazon with delivery Droids already that can hold the weight to my Darkness and Fly it here personally for a fraction of the cost the large shipping companies charge. OIL hurts everyone and there are technologies that exist to run vehicles even on CO2 so, excuses of inflation are old excuses to justify to us the customers why they keep raising the prices. It is truly a LEGAL scam.
From my experience, FedEx is the best in my area when it comes to handling with care even though I think they cost the most and once again they are raising their pricing. Most things like shipping have rising cost because we as a society allowed for polluted Oil to dominate our World and now to gear away into clean and renewable energy is an almost impossible task since now all the greedy powerful people have their feet in the money making OIL pool.
Imagine if the shipping companies operated all their vehicles, harnessing FREE ENERGY like the sun to power all their equipment and prices to ship would be much less when their is no need to purchase gas for their Trucks and Freight Planes.
I hope all people invested in OIL and the shipping companies can join DARKNESS in HELL.... lol
My shipping is $70 to Florida and I am thankful it is not as high as international, but still slightly high and I was hoping it would be closer to the $50 mark like members having theirs go to NY & Chicago.
This Darkness release after a super long wait is not cool to finally be released right after the holiday when most people are broke from holiday gift shopping and now expected to pay for a statue I ordered 3.5 years ago. Even though the very long wait I feel it would have been better to time this or hold it to ship in February so collectors that have a few orders are not worried how to pay all there shipping all at once right after a huge holiday.
The timing on Darkness has me stressed, but I had to strategically budget to get this and I'm glad he will ship soon.