I know we moan on about these but I've been noticing an increasing number of US people offering "fully duty paid, no extra costs" international shipping both on fleabay but also a couple of musical instrument vendors.
Just for amusement, I ran a transaction through a handy duty calculator system we have here to see how it compared with just forking out on arrival. They quoted me the thick side of $1000 for duty and taxes (on top of shipping) compared to the actual tax payable of just over $500 (Kiwi). So someone is trousering $500. It may not (in fact probably isn't) the seller, but still ... I thought it might be more, I wasn't expecting it to be double.
Anyway, just putting that out there in case anyone else comes across it when buying from the US.
