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Disagree. Nismoid is wrong.

Acs does not take into account the cost of shipping internationally in the initial assessment. You will be fine. Have an itemised invoice, which tirerack do.

Once the value of the actual goods go over 1000, then acs use the total amount including shipping and other costs involved to calculate the duty and any other charges.

Make sense? All the details are on their website.

I have imported in your circumstance,was not charged duty. I also am employed in the industry.

http://www.customs.g...pril2011WEB.pdf

Yes at times ACS can have extremely long rubber gloves at times...

The problem with forwarding services out of the US is as follows. Tirerack get exceptionally well priced shipping to Australia. If youget Tirerack to ship to someone in the US, you pay that shipping, then you pay the not well priced shipping from the forwarding agent. And that will usually ruin any price advantage.

Yep, Kinda just relised that haha, Hope they will be able to ship out some toyo proxes r1r's

Last time I bought R1Rs Tirerack didn't stock them, in fact I thought they did very few if no Toyos at all.

$1083 for a set of toyo proxes R1R 245/40/18 shipped to my door.

$182 per corner and $355 shipping- Now time to hunt around local and compare.

Doubt il find better

Yeah, so I see, I stand corrected! Good to see them doing Toyos, very happy now that I don't have to use a freight forwarding company to get me the 255/35R18 R1Rs that I run.

gotten 4 quotes today, best is $459 per corner.....pretty steep.

area tirerack cheap beacuse they sell old production rubber? or any other reason.

once thing ive learnt is if its to good to be true....It becasue it is.

Tirerack is cheap because it is American. In the USA not only are goods and services cheaper then over there (due to numerous factors, economy, cost of living etc.) but also Tirerack works in such large quantities and are such a large outfit that they can buy cheap and work off of very small profit margins in comparison to Australia.

Tirerack is cheap because it is American. In the USA not only are goods and services cheaper then over there (due to numerous factors, economy, cost of living etc.) but also Tirerack works in such large quantities and are such a large outfit that they can buy cheap and work off of very small profit margins in comparison to Australia.

You also forgot the past about Aussie Distro's price gouging the Aussie market to keep their margins huge.

Have a look @ AD08s for instance. They were infinitely expensive compared to Tirerack for a long time. Then Yokohama Aus stopped Tirerack shipping them via Yoko US.

At the same time the AD08 local price also dropped significantly almost overnight. Clearly this was done to stop people going via freight forwarders as the price is now "almost" the same as ex-US pricing by the time you get it delivered etc. So there is little point going US, deliver times etc. Just buy local now.

We've been getting gouged heavily for years on certain items. Tirerack are a good thing for the market IMO.

Obviously local pricing wont be "as good" as the USA due to purchase power and so on. If it was $150 more I would buy locally, but it's not $800+ a set difference, not justifiable at all.

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