I've bought several sets of binoculars and a scope from bintel in Sydney. It
is an excellent shop and being able to try before you buy is, of course,
critical with bins.
However, I recently purchased a Nikon 200-400 f/4 and bought from an
overseas retailer. I paid 10% GST and some other customs fees (but nowhere
5% - which I've never heard of). It ended up being about $4K cheaper than
buying locally).
So yes, support local vendors where you can, but sometimes that's just not
economically rational.
Alistair
On 16/02/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
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> David,
> Good to see a retailer promoting Pentax over the big 3 Europeans.
> Carl Clifford
>
> On 16/02/2008, at 7:04 PM, David Lord wrote:
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> > I bought a pair of Pentax 8x43 DCF ED binoculars from Bintel in
> > Sydney about 6 months ago. They cost about $1200 but I received a
> > discount by being a member of Birding NSW and they cost ~1100. I
> > could have bought overseas on the net for USD900 however I bought
> > locally as when I calculated shipping and duties (calculated as
> > another poster has mentioned on the price + shipping cost), there
> > was not much in it, less than $100. Buying locally I have someone I
> > can take the binoculars back to if they have a problem and I
> > received very good service from Lilly at Bintel who helped me make
> > an educated decision.
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