Sony PSP Go A Dud. It Will Fail Miserably Say Retailers

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starcraft said:
Australia has a 10% GST. But that GST cancelled out ALL other existing sales taxes at the time.

Meaning there is still a MONSTROUS difference between Australian and US pricing, that cannot be explained by the scale economies.

All three companies (with the one possible and extremely ironic exception of Microsoft) price-gouge Australian gamers.

you're probably right,

But here's something I've found about importing into Aus

so importing (bear in mind this is for imports over the net) Au$1000 will cost $162.50 in duty and tax alone.

the rate does change according to what and how much is being imported.

this could be just for private importers though, but it's some start

add in other transport fees, storage insurance, transport insurance etc. and then distributer mark-up for imports and it could add up to a tidy sum.

I'm not trying to defend their practices, but perhaps might explain some things

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=5549

Import of goods (other than tobacco products or alcoholic beverages) valued above $1000

	AUD$
Customs value (Cval)	2000.00
Customs duty (Duty) @ 5% of Cval	100.00	(Payable)
International transport and insurance or postage (T&I)	150.00
Value of the Taxable Importation (VoTI) (Cval+Duty+T&I)	2250.00
Goods and Services Tax (GST) @ 10 per cent of the VoTI	225.00	(Payable)
Total payable Duty + GST	325.00