Flavio, $400 Aussie dollars is roughly $200 US Dollars. So, a 500 FTZ with TR200 power pack is pretty good value at that price. As far as the difficulties and costs of shipping stuff, you can not get any further away from the rest of the world than we are here in Australia, and I am more than happy to post overseas. I know that the costs of using our postal service are positively bargain basement compared with say the USPS, but surely Germany (or anywhere else for that matter) can not be that expensive to post.
It is just an observation I made, and I do not wish to pick on our German colleagues, however, it has me intrigued. Perhaps one of kind German friends has the answer? Cheers Shaun. P.S: I paid about 225.00 USD for my second hand 500 FTZ about 6 months ago and was pretty happy with the price. -----Original Message----- From: Flavio Minelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E-Bay Question Shaun Canning wrote: > > Without meaning to start some full scale inter-continental feud, can someone > please tell me why German sellers on e-bay almost invariably wont post > outside Germany? Is it something to do with customs or GST/VAT restrictions? > I have a German seller who has just told me it would be more to ship an > AF500FTZ and TR200 battery pack to Australia than the auction price. This > makes the postage somewhere in the vicinity of $AUD400.00 give or take. > ... Shaun, I don't know how much money 400 AUD might be, but if you buy a used 500FTZ with that it's way too much, IMO. Generally speaking high shipping costs make transaction at long distances more problematic. Maybe thay don't want to be hassled by complicate shipping procedures or get caught getting money from their IRS equivalent through customs or avoid having their auctions get nowhere just because the high bidder folded after seeing the amout of money the shipping would cost. As far as the buying party agrees to pay whatever the costs are there should be no problem but I don't think I'd do that in this case... HTH, ciao, Flavio
