Online gear from overseas - good site

[xpom]

Hi folks,

If you are after some biking gear this place has a good selection http://www.fc-moto.de/en_GB

(A German site but that web address is for the English version). Take advantage of the good exchange rate

They will take the GST off and delivery to NZ is under 15 Euros. They also have a 10% off sale on at the moment!

Just remember to keep the import duties to under NZ$60.

So for clothing imports that is under NZ$260 (GST + 10% import tax) , Bags and rucksacks under NZ$320 (GST +5% import tax) and motorbike parts under NZ$400 (GST) - although that site doesn't do parts. Otherwise NZ customs will hit you with the tax fees which will be over NZ$ 100

I have just ordered a Kriega rucksack - cheapest place to get one when delivery included.

Cheers

[iYRe]

cool...

I've been looking for backpacks for cycling (pedal powered). I discovered this crowd:
http://www.deuter.com/en_DE/backpack-details.php?category=76&id=1698&title=Attack%2018%20SL

I ended up buying the hydro12 version - just big enough for a pair of shorts, socks, underwear and a shirt - even a pair of jeans if needed, as well as gazillions of well placed pockets and niches for other bits and pieces. Oh, and a 3l hydro pack with the best designed mouth piece I have used yet.

Works ok on the cruiser as well, it sits up pretty high and can even get the hydration system into the mouth without it flapping about too much.

It has all sorts of funky well designed features.. including a rain coat, which survived a 1 hr ride in a monsoon last week, without letting rain or sweat in.. I love it..

[Robert Taylor]

Hi folks,

If you are after some biking gear this place has a good selection http://www.fc-moto.de/en_GB

(A German site but that web address is for the English version). Take advantage of the good exchange rate

They will take the GST off and delivery to NZ is under 15 Euros. They also have a 10% off sale on at the moment!

Just remember to keep the import duties to under NZ$60.

So for clothing imports that is under NZ$260 (GST + 10% import tax) , Bags and rucksacks under NZ$320 (GST +5% import tax) and motorbike parts under NZ$400 (GST) - although that site doesn't do parts. Otherwise NZ customs will hit you with the tax fees which will be over NZ$ 100

I have just ordered a Kriega rucksack - cheapest place to get one when delivery included.

Cheers

Businesses pay gst on the volume goods they import, why should it be any different for private purchasers?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Businesses pay gst on the volume goods they import, why should it be any different for private purchasers?

Because at some point the cost benefit analysis done by the gubblemunt has suggested that the revenue collected would be outweighed by the costs of collecting it. Its exactly the same rationale that led to the abolition of gift duty earlier this year.

I totally understand where you're coming from, but to put it bluntly, thats the answer: your government has decided that the break even point is revenue collection of $60 or so. And I've been caught both ways, lemmetellya.

[Jay GTI]

Hi folks,

If you are after some biking gear this place has a good selection http://www.fc-moto.de/en_GB

(A German site but that web address is for the English version). Take advantage of the good exchange rate

They will take the GST off and delivery to NZ is under 15 Euros. They also have a 10% off sale on at the moment!

Just remember to keep the import duties to under NZ$60.

So for clothing imports that is under NZ$260 (GST + 10% import tax) , Bags and rucksacks under NZ$320 (GST +5% import tax) and motorbike parts under NZ$400 (GST) - although that site doesn't do parts. Otherwise NZ customs will hit you with the tax fees which will be over NZ$ 100

I have just ordered a Kriega rucksack - cheapest place to get one when delivery included.

Cheers

Got a Fox V3 Carbon helmet off them in Oct, was a bit over $300 landed, waaay cheaper than off the shelf over here. However their freight process is very slow, delivered about 3 weeks after ordering. Got a Fox V1 lid for my GF from ebay.com at the same time (the V1 was around the same price as FC-Moto), was in my hands 4 days after hitting buy now.

[bikaholic]

Businesses pay gst on the volume goods they import, why should it be any different for private purchasers?Do you not claim the GST back on your GST return?, of course you do, then your customers pay the increased amount and you send that to the IRD don't you, so you pay no GST.

[Robert Taylor]

Do you not claim the GST back on your GST return?, of course you do, then your customers pay the increased amount and you send that to the IRD don't you, so you pay no GST.

That is of course the simple answer. Do you own a small business?

[Robert Taylor]

Because at some point the cost benefit analysis done by the gubblemunt has suggested that the revenue collected would be outweighed by the costs of collecting it. Its exactly the same rationale that led to the abolition of gift duty earlier this year.

I totally understand where you're coming from, but to put it bluntly, thats the answer: your government has decided that the break even point is revenue collection of $60 or so. And I've been caught both ways, lemmetellya.

They are actually working on this issue that is a gross inequity to especially small business

[HenryDorsetCase]

Do you not claim the GST back on your GST return?, of course you do, then your customers pay the increased amount and you send that to the IRD don't you, so you pay no GST.

incorrect. but thanks for playing.

[HenryDorsetCase]

They are actually working on this issue that is a gross inequity to especially small business

I'm aware. And I think the limit in Straya is $0 but don't quote me.

Having said that. from the gubblemunt's point of view, the revenue collected/cost to collect sum has to work still. And from the government's viewpoint, trying to police all the punters, all the parcels, all the time is a logistical nightmare.

And the one time I got caught (because of a ridiculous, retarded situation regarding Arai helmets) not only was it the GST (which as a consumer I paid twice, once in Straya, and once here, so you know, I'm doing my bit......) but the biosecurity levy and all that. Just for completeness I will point out that if I was part of my business, I would not have paid full retail price for the item in its country of origin, (thereby reducing the GST transacted, plus the other levies which are value based), and that would have been factored into my sale price on end sale.

One reason I'd not get into that sort of business. Hard to make money. Its hard enough these days doing what I do....

[Ocean1]

Do you own a small business?

You'd have to figure it damn soon would be...

[bikaholic]

You'd have to figure it damn soon would be...'widgets' for export only.

[Jay GTI]

They are actually working on this issue that is a gross inequity to especially small business


Perhaps, but making all of us pay GST on everything we import still won't change the fact that a lot of items can be purchased from elsewhere in the world for considerably less than they cost locally. Even if I had paid GST, biosecurity levy and what ever else a small business pays, I'd still be saving $200 on what I could buy my helmet for over here.

Small businesses in NZ cannot hope to compete for a share of the local market, when companies like fc moto use local tax laws and a huge, international customer base to provide goods to your door at a price below half what it is in NZ. Basically, if the products you sell can be easily ordered off a webiste, from anywhere in the world, and shipped to you at a reasonable price, you are already screwed and charging me GST won't change that.

[Robert Taylor]

Perhaps, but making all of us pay GST on everything we import still won't change the fact that a lot of items can be purchased from elsewhere in the world for considerably less than they cost locally. Even if I had paid GST, biosecurity levy and what ever else a small business pays, I'd still be saving $200 on what I could buy my helmet for over here.

Small businesses in NZ cannot hope to compete for a share of the local market, when companies like fc moto use local tax laws and a huge, international customer base to provide goods to your door at a price below half what it is in NZ. Basically, if the products you sell can be easily ordered off a webiste, from anywhere in the world, and shipped to you at a reasonable price, you are already screwed and charging me GST won't change that.

Yes it is but one inequity in a world that is changing fast. No-one should deny that.

[almoto]

cool...

I've been looking for backpacks for cycling (pedal powered). I discovered this crowd:
http://www.deuter.com/en_DE/backpack-details.php?category=76&id=1698&title=Attack%2018%20SL

I ended up buying the hydro12 version - just big enough for a pair of shorts, socks, underwear and a shirt - even a pair of jeans if needed, as well as gazillions of well placed pockets and niches for other bits and pieces. Oh, and a 3l hydro pack with the best designed mouth piece I have used yet.

Works ok on the cruiser as well, it sits up pretty high and can even get the hydration system into the mouth without it flapping about too much.

It has all sorts of funky well designed features.. including a rain coat, which survived a 1 hr ride in a monsoon last week, without letting rain or sweat in.. I love it..

they dont seem to sell from that site...where did you get your pack from?