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Amazon Will no Longer Ship to Australia

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:29AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:29AM (#687979)

    Could part of the "markup" be the exchange rate? US Amazon listing an item in US Dollars and Aussie Amazon listing in AUS Dollars?
    1 United States Dollar equals 1.32 Australian Dollar (variable I am sure based on the money market)
    I am not a math genius but that tells me an item that costs 1.00 dollar US would cost 1.32 AUS

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:10PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:10PM (#687999) Journal

    I am not a math genius

    How hard can it be to multiply $139 with 1.3 and compare the result with $360, mmm?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:31PM (#688004)

      shhhhh don't bring logic into this

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:13PM (#688002)

    Any excuse to charge more.

    A case cited a while back was Microsoft Office and similar products. The reason for the Australian tax being applied - the markup - was the electricity costs and so forth for employees etc in Australia. For software already coded and released in America with a AU language pack bolted on.