[chbot] GST on AliExpress orders

[Andrew Dachs]

At least it’s collected efficiently and easily.  GST was never the reason for not buying locally.

As a side note, has anyone else started having a lot of non-deliveries? I ordered a batch of things in Sept via Yanwen post and they haven’t turned up so have been going through the refund process a lot lately. Other orders on different postal services have been fine.

By comparison an Amazon order arrived yesterday, 3 days later than quoted which was absolutely no problem. This morning I got an unsolicited email apologising and a gift voucher in my account.

Andy







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> On 9/01/2020, at 11:24 PM, Andy Gardner <ceo at andygardner.com> wrote:
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>> On 9/01/20 8:34 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
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>> It started 1 Dec 2019, not unexpected. It was like that by 12 Dec.
>> It's less to do with ripping off the poor and more with levelling the
>> playing field for local businesses against overseas corporations.
>> That aliexpress would pull out of the NZ market I put into the urban
>> myth / wishful thinking basket. They already had to do something similar
>> for a number of other countries. Given the loads they're raking in from
>> NZ they're far better off to do a little programming. Amazon just didn't
>> have their act together in time; I didn't get any impression they'd quit
>> the NZ market. As long as they can squeeze us because we want something
>> from them, they'll be here.
>> Volker
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> Yeah. The GST was always payable, but because of the paperwork hassle they deemed it not worth collecting.
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> With huge electronic retailers overseas shipping so much stuff in, it became worthwhile doing so, and overall it's good for NZ. Public health and education can't run on fumes.
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