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posted by martyb on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ignore-the-customer-and-maybe-they-will-go-away dept.

The Australian government gave notice to online retailers that they must collect tax on behalf of the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and submit the tax collected to the ATO for purchases made by Australians overseas. Surprisingly, online retailers objected to this and at the time threatened to block Australian shoppers. Now Amazon has taken the step of preventing Australians from purchasing from their US site and sending parcels to Australia. Amazon have stated that Australians can now purchase products from the Australian Amazon site, which while true comes with a significant markup of, in some cases, 160 per cent or more over the price of the product in the US Amazon site. This does not prevent Australians from working around this technicality by engaging with a shipping company in America to bounce products through their warehouse and having the parcels forwarded on to an Australia address. In the mean time, from July 1st 2018 onward, Amazon will no longer ship products to an Australian address.


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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:46AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:46AM (#687917)

    use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.)

    Liar [usps.com]

    Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by khallow on Sunday June 03 2018, @04:04AM (5 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 03 2018, @04:04AM (#687923) Journal
    Who knew a troll account with a fake persona would ever tell deliberate falsehoods. Who knew?
    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @04:42AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @04:42AM (#687936)

      Who knew a troll account with a fake persona would ever tell deliberate falsehoods. Who knew?

      Since it pretends to be the current president of the US I would expect nothing it posts to be true.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:04PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:04PM (#687996) Journal

        Since it's a fake persona of a liar, sometimes will tell the truth, otherwise it would be the true persona of a liar.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:19PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:19PM (#687990) Homepage

      Well the real account with the real persona does it as well, so...

      --
      systemd is Roko's Basilisk
    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Spamalope on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:30PM (1 child)

      by Spamalope (5233) on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:30PM (#688029) Homepage

      I'm impressed at how well he's keeping in character. He's dedicated to the lampoon he picked!

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Fluffeh on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:26PM

        by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:26PM (#688132) Journal

        *meanwhile in the White House*

        "Why do they think I am someone else pretending to be me?.. Of course I'm me!"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:38PM (#688031)