Bottom Bashing Bloke wrote:Have to keep an eye on them for when either the aussie dollar goes up or they go on special. ONly $200 over the duties limit which I can see costing a small fortune (if anyone knows the calculations tell me) and then wont be much chop. But they basically half the price. Checked out the HDS and they were same price basically
I bought a laptop in a couple of years ago, the laptop was about $1700, the duty was close to $300. Scored an 898SI off of ebay US a couple years ago for under a grand, no issues with import.
If you buy secondhand then getting it in is easy, especially if you have a cooperative seller. You might even get one for under $1000AU, however the dollar is pretty ordinary right now.
Just be aware that a Humminbird will almost certainly be locked to imperial measurements, you cannot change them. There is also a strong possibility that a Lowrance will be geofenced (they were a few years ago) and therefore the GPS wont work in AU.